This ceramist from Assemini, Walter Usai, understands the methods of the trade learned from his father Elvio and a long memory family, dating back to the first half of the nineteenth century. His work, characterized by bold and intense colours, includes a varied line of everyday objects, such as containers, plates, vases and pitchers, made […]

The history of this company starts in the beautiful Naples, home to bespoke male tailoring, but it is in 1969, when it transferred to Catanzaro, that Angela Lemma and her husband Giovanni Santillo opened the renowned Santillo 1970 shirt shop. The strength of the1970 Santillo collection, besides the prized fabrics, is attention to the entirely […]

Raised in the goldsmith workshop of his great-grandfather, Enrico Cirio was soon able to show his outstanding artisan skills and creativity. He creates eclectic gold pieces, made with precious materials, such as the famous Movado reinterpreted using gold and diamonds, as well as poor materials. All his experience became inspiration, and every object a gem […]

Lino Tagliapietra’s 75-year-long career has been lived out at the gallery-museum in Murano where he was born and raised. He trained at several of the island’s furnaces, going from apprentice to master at the age of twenty-one to becoming one of the best-known glass artists of our time, working between Venice and Seattle, popular all […]

That of Cosimo Vestita is a trua passion for pottery, handed down from father to son. A long family tradition whose origins are lost in the depths of time. Collector of antique ceramics, he has rediscovered lost ancient shapes that were typical of the Grottaglie area, renewing them just enough to make traditional creations that […]

Mazzanti Piume has been creating elegant feather accessories and ornaments since 1935, by using the same traditional methods for three generations. In the 1940s, the atelier began working with the great names of fashion design and hat-making of the time. And it still creates handmade feather items for famous fashion designers such as Chanel, Balenciaga, […]

UFIP was first opened at the beginning of the last century as a distribution company, therefore with a purely commercial function. Over the years, however, the increasingly precise knowledge of the needs of the market has turned this company into a dynamic business that produces cymbals and percussion instruments. Today UFIP is a company that […]

In Paolucci’s workshop, one can still smell the odours and hear the sounds that up until 10 or so years ago were typical of the city of Frosolone, where the art of forging has very distant origins. Experience has been handed down from father to son, and makes it possible for them to produce the […]

The Frigerio Carlo company has been a leader on the Italian furniture scene since 1949, with a qualified production using natural materials such as rattan cane, manau cane, rushes and wicker. In the 1990s, the use of polyethylene fibre and other synthetic materials resistant to all weather conditions was introduced, which permitted the birth of […]