A Florentine institution in the silverware manufacturing field since 1902, Pampaloni specializes in the production of a wide choice of silver objects by drawing from extensive archives of shapes and models and by using state-of-the-art technology which allows to reproduce any organic shape. Many are the commemorative pieces made to celebrate cultural or sporting achievements, […]

Carlo Semenzato trained at the historic Fonderia Valese, founded in 1913, and has been the owner of the business since 2006. Semenzato creates his works by using the traditional Fontainebleau glass sand, pressing it into wooden or iron frames to work the object into the desired shape. Once the casts are removed, molten metal (either […]

In the fourteenth-century house, Torre dei Sapiti, in a workshop with barrel-vaulted ceilings, carved capitals and walls of exposed stone, is the workshop of Paolo Pagliai, silversmith and restorer, heir of a family that has been working at this craft in the Oltrarno area since 1930. His workshop is a reference point for antique dealers, […]

The heritage of Pino Signoretto, author of sculptures exhibited in important museums around the world, began to work around the glass kiln when he was just 9 years of age and he immediately loved glass and its world. In his long career, he has collaborated with important artists and architects such as Picasso, Dalì, Vedova, […]

Antonello Utzeri learn the art of weaving by vocation and since 2002 has also made it his job. For several years, in addition to traditional basket weaving, he has been making various creations born from the collaboration with designers such as Imago Mundi and Antonio Marras – innovative projects internationally acclaimed and published in the […]

This workshop practices an art born in France in the 1800s, which soon became popular across Europe, especially among the aristocrats:  wig making. Started in 1936, Paride, which has been elevated to the status of Historic Shop of Milan, creates custom-made items by using only natural hair of the highest quality: wigs, hairpieces and extensions, […]

Walking into the atelier is like stepping inside an enchanted world. Guglielmo Pramotton is a master of traditional craftwork of the Val d’Aosta region and is able to infuse wood with life and soul and convey emotions, tell stories and recreate old-time atmospheres. Pramotton represents scenes of everyday life in the mountains in the old […]

The history of the Bevilacqua family in the weaving business dates back to 1499. The current company, however, was officially started by Luigi Bevilacqua in 1875 with 18th-century looms from the Scuola della Seta (Silk School) of the Republic of Venice, which are still used to  make raised velvets and soprarizzi velvets of rare beauty, […]

A small company that carries on the woodworking tradition of the Valle d’Aosta. This tradition is respected not only in the techniques used in the workshop, found in the village of Introd, but also in the objects produced: Les Amis du Bois is, in fact, specialized in making wooden objects and, in particular, in the […]

A veritable glass chandelier artist, master glassmaker Luigi Fornasier started his glassworks over fifty years ago, and then handed down all his knowledge to his son Fabio, who combines his father’s technical skill and his own innate inquisitiveness which leads him to constantly research different shapes, volumes, colours and finishing details, experimental at times, designed […]