Arteviva was founded in 1980 as an artisan workshop, at the time producing primarily very finely crafted tapestries and carpets. Today, while remaining faithful to the traditional methods and the level of quality, it has extended its range of products, and is also creating fabrics for furnishings as well as clothing. Arteviva, in harmony with […]

Four generations of artisans creating jewels, a family business that has crossed more than a century of history while affirming its own philosophy and inimitable style, appreciated and recognized all over the world. Every Fratelli Piccini jewel is a unique piece created by the hands of expert master craftsmen, loyal custodians of those goldsmithing techniques […]

Cappellificio Falcus was started in 1959 by Folco Mugnai, in Montevarchi, near  Arezzo, in an area known for top-quality hat manufacturing since the late 1800s. The factory soon made a name for itself by making Florentine straw hats and exotic luxury straw hats. It was the first company to experiment with the “blocked fabric” technique […]

Plasterego is the contemporary evolution of a story that began 60 years ago in the field of interior plaster decorations in Padua. Mario Boschetto, the founder, walked into the workshop of an artisan-decorator for the first time in October 1951 and took his first steps in the art that would later become his job. In […]

Marco Ricciardi has been working with alabaster since his days at the Art Institute, when he began making his original candies. After his first workshop he participated in fairs, competitions and exhibitions. In 1985, he began a collaboration, which is still active, with the decorator Lucia Niccolini, with whom he opened Oasi’s artistic handicraft store […]

Gold has a thousand properties and uses. It requires, however, great expertise in order to work it to perfection and obtain ultra-thin gold leaf, the best way to fully exploit its potential in many fields. This is what Mario Berta Battiloro does, by carrying on an old family tradition dating back to 1926. At his […]

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, […]

Antonio Iachini started working as a restorer when he started his business in the 80s, while working as a cabinetmaker at the same time, creating furniture and inlaid panels, sculptures, carved and gilded items and furniture. In the last eight years another of his passions has become his job: as a luthier he produces electric […]

The Kennedys, King Charles III of England, the presi- dents of the Italian Republic, Aristotele Onassis and Daniel Craig in Skyfall: these are only a few of the famous names who fell in love with E. Marinella ties. And it’s hard to dis- agree with them. The ties by this historic brand created at the […]

Emilio Marchesini’s workshop creates sacred and modern-style silverware, even customized to the client’s specifications. Traditional processing methods are combined with creativity and use of modern technology. Emilio Marchesini is also passionately committed to teaching, in order to hand down this precious art to the new generations.