Research, knowledge, tradition and a forty-year experience are the foundations on which Riccardo Varsallona has built his workshop, which creates and displays one-of-a-kind pieces made according to Caltagirone’s traditional ceramic-making techniques. Caltagirone boasts a deeply-rooted tradition of ceramic processing, since the production of proto-majolicaware, which Varsallona has carefully studied. His children have joined the business […]

Since 1963, this workshop has been producing authentic artisan Chiavari chairs. This tradition has been handed down here for more than two centuries, without neglecting the innovation and research into new forms and models. A result of the history of the place and the family, the young craftsmen who work in this shop today possess […]

Once upon a time there was the then seventeen year-old Lorenzo Borgheresi, who from 1953 used brass, copper and coloured glass to produce the star lantern, the historic and most representative symbol of his work. After this other models were created, including the Veneziane and the Lampioni Fiorentini, or Florentine streetlamps, all in antique style […]

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, […]

Majolica stoves and artistic ceramics since 1760: this is the craft carried on by the Kunter family according to traditional artisan techniques, with which they create one-of-a-kind pieces. They currently offer over one hundred hand-printed tiles, in the most varied styles handed down from one generation to the next. Typical artistic and decorative ceramics and […]

Rubelli has been creating, producing and marketing fine fabrics since 1889, innovating while remaining faithful to tradition. Today it makes high-performance technical fabrics on new-generation looms, in addition to precious velvets and the exclusive soprarizzi, silk velvets handwoven on original 18th-century looms moved to Venice from the Rubelli factory in Como. In Venice, the Ca’ […]

La Vacchetta Grassa is the name and brand of the leather goods shop located in the heart of Modena and housed in a beautiful historic building just steps away from Piazza Grande. It has been producing handmade belts, bags and wallets for over 35 years, by using 100% natural skins which are processed with the […]

A vocation for design and contemporary decor combined with the recovery of the motifs of the Byzantines, Spaniards and Arabs: these are the ceramics of Giacomo Cusumano, who decorates and crafts his pieces by hand, using traditional techniques. His speciality is his ability to paint majolica, treating the enamel as if it were a canvas. […]

In the workshop Eros and Gabriele Collizzolli shape clay, from mixing to creating mould, from drying to setting in the ovens. The decorations are the work of their mother, in an entirely artisanal process: from the creation of the single tiles to the final installation. Obviously not many pieces are made each year and this […]

Aldo Illotta’s passion for string instruments and in particular guitars started about 25 years ago. For the last 15 years, he has been dealing exclusively in guitars, to begin with standard classical guitars and then, a few years later, steel string, acoustic, baritone, 7-string and 12-string guitars. Inspired by the Master luthiers of the past, […]