Rodolfo Palermo combines a passion for materials and elegant shapes with a solid artistic and technical training, accompanied by a decade of experience in the field of goldsmithing. Maestro d’Arte and later Maestro d’Arte e delle Arte Applicate, as well as working in his own goldsmith workshop, he is a professor at the TADS (Tarì […]

A passionate restorer and cabinet-maker, Francesca Mondini creates wooden works of art with artisan methods. Every creation is unique of its kind and is made by blending different types of wood, which bring natural color to the surface. The types of wood are sourced all over the world, from controlled and protected forests, and are […]

Annamode is a costume maker for cinema and theater that for 70 years has embodied the Hamlet-style dualism between costume and couture. The shop was opened in the mid-1900s by Anna and Teresa Allegri, two young sisters whose creations—thought out to the smallest detail—soon enchanted the well-dressed ladies of Rome and the costume designers of […]

Valgrisa® is the first “prêt- à porter montagnard” brand of the Western Alps, which gets its name from the Valgrisenche area, where the ancient art of loom-weaving has always been practiced. An in-depth study of the local history and commitment to the development of local manufacturing traditions, combined with a design capable of reinterpreting each […]

The signature Percossi Papi is a guarantee of quality and taste since 1968, when Diego Percossi Papi began to create, as well as fine sacred and secular art objects, his unique jewellery. These precious pieces, completely handmade and highly evocative, with their vibrant colours and sophistication, have won over admirers from around the world, including […]

The master goldsmith Danilo Bonucci has been running his business since 1990, creating jewellery using all different types of precious metals, stones and pearls. It often start from a customer’s idea, to which the master goldsmith gives shape through traditional techniques: lamination, embossing, hammering, lost wax moulding and even Etruscan granulation, creating unique pieces. The […]

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, […]

Craftsmanship becomes art in the workshop of Anna Barola, who makes exclusively by hand curtains, tablecloths, sheets and furnishing objects by using traditional Umbrian embroidery and lacemaking techniques, according to the artist’s creativity or to the customer’s specifications. Anna Barola’s production line has recently expanded to include the so-called fuseruole, small objects of ancient origin […]

Pierluigi Ghianda, who passed away in 2015, was called “the poet of wood”, for the knowledge, love and respect he had when working with the material. In his workshop, the craftsmen who grew with him create furniture and wooden objects of various kinds, without the use of nails, but skills in creating interlocking joints or […]

In the heart of Florence, thanks to the lesson of master Renzo Scarpelli and the work of his son Leonardo, the precious tradition of mosaic in semi-precious stone lives on, a tradition with roots in the Renaissance. To paint with stones requires great skill in finding the right elements and their colour tone, technical skill […]