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. […]

Pietro Gargini is a young luthier, born in 1980. His passion, after graduating in architecture with a thesis on the mechanics of the violin, has already led him to work and take specialisation courses with nationally and internationally famous masters of this art He now divides her time between building and restoring musical instruments. Many […]

Founded in 2018, the Impresa Sociale Magnani Pescia is a young reality, but with solid roots, which retrace the history back to the fifteenth century, bringing back to life a tradition that is also linked to the important Paper Museum of Pescia, promoter of the Company. The workshop is dedicated to the production of hand […]

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 […]

After graduating from the well-known school for mosaicists in the Friuli region, Luciano Petris opened his workshop in Codroipo in 1980. His endeavours cover a vast range of activities: design and reproduction of artistic mosaics of modern and contemporary inspiration, in particular; production of furnishings and facings, using Venetian enamel and marble as well as […]

This historic shop was opened in Milan in 1925 by the Ballini family, heirs of the experience of master shoemakers who made boots for the Savoy regiment of the nearby barracks. Maurizio Marinella, a known lover of excellence in craftsmanship, took over in 2004 to carry on the tradition. Today, in the elegant shop-workshop, customers […]

In 1859, the lawyer from Vicenza Antonio Salviati decided to start Salviati & C., a company specializing in the production of mosaics, enamels and blown glass. Driven by his tireless inquisitive spirit of challenge, Salviati began producing very sophisticated milk glass objects, complex filigree motifs, opalescent glass embellished with floral appliqués and threads of aventurine. […]

Statues of all sizes, nativity scenes from 11 to 160 cm: at the Casa d’Arte professor Lando Landi has been a supplier for the best religious shops in Italy and in the world and the religious institutions for more than 80 years. The smallest statues are made of solid resin, the others of fibre glass […]

It is hard not to find him intent on creating one of his wonderful works of art at his workshop/museum in Murano. Today, just like in 1971, when he was barely fourteen years old and created his first works inspired mostly by classical art, Greek-Roman and Byzantine art, medieval and Renaissance theatre and Commedia dell’Arte. […]

The year 2015 marks an important anniversary: 120 years of business since David Berti started production in 1895. Today, both the passion and the craftsmanship remain unchanged. But the knives made by Coltellerie Berti are not only handmade but also unique: there is only one knife maker who leaves his initials on the blade, to […]