SlowTile, born in 2018, in Florence, stems from the encounter of the “special artists” of the “Made in Sipario” social cooperative with the Tuscan tradition of hand-glazed terracotta tiles, in collaboration with architect Leone Pecchioli, and expresses, in eight different “creative gestures/decorations,” their particular and unique creativity. A veritable “gymnasium” for training and experimentation, that […]

The passion for wood is the same passion that animates the workshop in the heart of Oltrarno, where you can smell the odour of wood transformed into furnishings, objects and small pieces of furniture. The Castorina workshop can meet the demands of the most diverse customers and works closely with architecture and designers. Besides its […]

Marco Ripa is a craftsman and designer. Since he was 15 he has worked with various types of metal, but prefers iron, because it is less repetitive and ‘noisier’. It is a material that is usually rigid and linear, but that Ripa can make malleable and sinuous when necessary. He makes attractive items of furniture, […]

In Via S. Floreano, a Buia, siamo nel mondo della ceramica artistica, in questo laboratorio dal 1955 si portano avanti gli insegnamenti del maestro Enore Pezzetta, arricchendo e interpretando quella che è la tradizione di questa nobile arte praticata in Friuli già nel ‘700. Molte sono le tecniche utilizzate, “tutte quelle con cui è possibile […]

Lighting and furnishing objects made of brass, copper and bronze by skillful artisans. The workshop, which was started in 1963, has been able to keep in step with market trends over the years, becoming well-known both in Italy and abroad. Every object is the result of experience and deep knowledge of materials and processing techniques. […]

The company was founded in Mogliano in 1974 by the craftsman Tommaso Candria, an expert in the art of the typical weaving of the area. After an initial phase in which he devoted himself exclusively to the production of furnishings, in 1990, he launched a line of bags and accessories, weaving on wooden forms both […]

Each piece of jewellery is unique and made entirely by hand in the workshop of Laura Balzelli, painter, designer and sculptor, combining precious metals with unexpected elements such as old wood, leaves, shells and fossils. This artist and craftsman knows how to listen to stones and understands how to use them best. In her laboratory-workshop […]

The skilful artist Tonino Negri’s terracotta pottery expresses formal quality and skilled craftsmanship. The fire has marked the clay with its colour and you do not feel the need to dress it in shiny and crystalline polychromatic glazes. Each object stands out for its perfectly recognisable stylistic features. Light-weight sculptures because they have a usable […]

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 […]

Passionately fond of the art of ceramic-making since he was a child, Elvio Sagnella works in this workshop with the help of experienced assistants. The winner of the International Tradition and Innovation Competition held in Ascoli Piceno in 2009, Sagnella is a versatile and passionate artisan. Inspired by the eighteenth-century tradition of Certaldo and San […]