As a stage and screen actor, Stefano Nicolao developed such a passion for costumes that, in 1980, he started his own workshop which has become, over time, very popular with major theatres all over the world and international filmmaking productions. Clothing, linens, headgear, cloaks… fabulous costumes featured in prestigious collections such as at New York’s […]

After years of experience in television and film, and later in collaboration with major directors and directors of photography, Luca Riccioni opened Kinoki Studio in 1994, in Civitavecchia. Specializing in corporate and ceremony photography, he simultaneously pursued these two sectors with his own way of seeing, recounting factories, people, objects, but also stories. Since the […]

Pictalab is an artisan business that specializes in interior decorating and finishing. Among the techniques it makes use of are trompe l’oeil, stucco, French-polishing and imitation marble, which have been gracing private homes and public places, both in Italy and abroad, for over ten years. In 2014, Picta Lab began designing, producing and marketing highly-personalized […]

The Artisan Cooperative SU TROBASCIU was established in I978 and is currently composed of seven women who carry on the tradition of textile art typical of Mogoro, dedicated to creating fabrics for dowries, such as everyday items like tablecloths and blankets, to the more strictly artistic items, like tapestries. The Cooperative SU TROBASCIU maintains the […]

Soapstone is a ductile and malleable rock found in deposits above 1,300 meters. This grey-whitish colored rock is the ideal material for the construction of stone stoves. Fabrizio and Claudio carry on this tradition deeply rooted in the Val d’Aosta region and practiced since the 1700s, by using the processing techniques they learnt from their […]

Alice Corbetta enjoys describing herself as a “surface designer”. Born in Milan, Alice has been working in Tuscany since 2007, where she deals with contemporary decoration of living spaces, by creating concrete and resin textures and surfaces which she applies on walls, panels, furniture and furnishing objects. Delicate bas-reliefs that create tactile surfaces through which […]

The feature that makes this workshop, which has been creating artistic mosaics since the 1800s, unique is use of three different mosaic techniques: the Florentine mosaic in hard stone; the micro-mosaic made from spun glass; and the classic cut mosaic made from pieces of glass. Mosaic masters specialised in these techniques make jewellery and ornaments, […]

Palazzo dei Pittori testifies perfectly to the history and excellence of Burano’s handmade lace. The building, which was once a gathering place and inspired, starting from the 1900s, many artists on the Venetian painting scene, now houses the lace makers of Martina Vidal’s historic atelier. They make custom-made linens and furnishing objects, with tradition, quality […]

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 […]

The workshop specializes in the restoration of wooden furniture and objects by combining the use of age-old techniques, artisan craftsmanship, the most advanced methods and latest market developments, such as the microwave woodworm treatment, one of its strengths. The expertise and skills of Federica Foppiani, Elisa Italiano and Federica Magli allow the workshop to cover […]