The Artisans

A young artist and designer, Alessandro Vinci grew up in Syracuse, a Sicilian city rich in art and history. After graduating from the prestigious Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, he worked as a designer for a noteworthy luxury design company. Several of his creations can be considered part of his search for a new contemporary language, where traditions are respected as they are blended with modern aesthetics.

Located in Rimini, San Patrignano is the largest halfway house in Europe, offering drug addicts the tools to build a new life since 1978. Brought to life under the creative direction of artist Giovanna Bianco, San Patrignano’s solesempre Collection features unique objects handcrafted by the house’s young residents in Design Lab workshops, combining art and materials with stories of personal rebirth. This initiative, inspired by the darkness of the lockdown, seeks to create objects that bring a ray of light, hope, and comfort into our homes. This is a charity project, 100% of profits will be devolved to the community of San Patrignano

British-born studio stoneware potter Terry Davies began his training in the late 1970s, traveling extensively before eventually settling down in Tuscany 25 years ago. Davies followed in the footsteps of pioneers Betty Woodman, Aldo Londi, Carlo Zauli, and contemporary master ceramist Alessio Tasca, all the while creating his own artistic style. Recipient of several international awards, Davies balances functional, abstract, and classical concepts and transforms them into gentle shapes with a distinctive textural allure

Founded in Meolo, outside of Venice and harnessing the Zanchettin family’s forty years of experience in the industry, Medulum designs, and crafts innovative furnishings and accessories. The new décor brand combines the tradition and quality of traditional craftsmanship with modern design, working with important architecture studios and designers. The first Medulum collection features eight pieces of furniture, including bookcases, side tables, consoles, and armchairs.

Once a small bottega in Catania, founded in 1899 by Santo Romano, today Romano Pavimenti continues in the tradition of Mattonelle dei Cento Anni, now in the fourth generation. The company remains faithful to its roots, using the same passion, the same artisanal quality, and raw materials, particularly volcanic rock from Mount Etna, still the foundation of all the company’s products, the company continually experiments and innovates to offer contemporary cement tiling. All Romano Pavimenti products are made by hand.

An artisan and designer, Marco Ripa crafts bespoke furnishings in iron and steel in his workshop in Porto San Giorgio, Province of Fermo. Marco was born in 1977. At the age of 15, he began working as an apprentice in a workshop where he discovered his passion for iron, which became his material of choice.Inspired by American sculptor Calder, Marco Ripa shapes and colors metals to create vases, lamps, bookshelves, side tables and accessories, each entirely original and impossible to reproduce.

Freaklab is a contemporary atelier, a creative workshop producing majolica terracotta pieces, established in Palermo by Antonio Sunseri in 2016. Freaklab serves up original pieces that draw inspiration from the relationship between man and nature, featuring animals and monstrous creatures. To convey his ideas, Antonio uses a paintbrush to represent the world of painting, a pencil, the symbol of drawing, and a scalpelto shape his materials.

Tecno Spa, founded in 1953 by Osvaldo and Fulgenzio Borsani, is a historic furnishing company based in the heart of Milan, with every collection based on quality design, materials, and artisanal tradition. The brand boasts an innovative approach, 47 patents, 5 Compassi d’Oro, and numerous recognitions, allowing them to launch their products around the world, creating prestigious works and true design icons. Today, Tecno Spa defines themselves as a design factory.

Founded in 1915 by Roberto Gambella, today, Ebanisteria Roberto Gambella is led by its third generation. The company is proud of its century of woodworking mastery and continues to use traditional techniques while incorporating the latest technology in terms of accessories and tools. The company works exclusively with prestigious solid woods to create modern and exclusive products with Scandinavian inspiration, designed by Erika Gambella. The company has now been officially included in the official register of historic Italian businesses.

Marsica Fossati is an interior and product designer known for her eclectic creativity and meticulous attention to detail. She’s specialized in luxury hospitality and residential interiors, with a particular interest in bespoke furniture. In her interiors and through her products, she always tries to include elements from the past, often mixing contemporary design with natural and rough materials, such as wood, glass, brass, and marble.

Luce di Carrara was established in Querceta, outside of Lucca, to pair the beauty of natural stone, particularly white Carrara marble, with Italy’s great design and manufacturing history to create furnishings and home accessories that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional. In 2013, Luce di Carrara became part of Henraux, allowing them to collaborate with noted designers who work to interpret the stone while respecting its historic value and bring out its expressive abilities.

Kreo Arte, a Macomer brand from Nuoro, Sardinia, creating wall art, high design lamps, and mirrors, is the brainchild of designer Francesca Fiori and her experience in the world of graphic design and communication. The star of all Kreo Arte products is the material, defining new shapes and chiaroscuro with every product. The subjects, colors, and fabrics are inspired by the Sardinian tradition, presented in a new language that brings the island’s iconography to life.

Harnessing years of experience in creating skis using the traditional sandwich technique, Zero was established in 2011. A new concept of skis developed in a workshop in the heart of the Alps, Zero combines technology and style in unique objects with stand-out designs crafted with unique materials. A fully personalized and customizable product in both design and structure, made in quality materials to stand the test of time.

Founded in Meda, Brianza in 2012, the artisanal workshop Impagliando Design is heir to a centennial family chair-making tradition. A hotbed of ideas, projects, and products made using historic weaving techniques, the company produces chairs, armchairs, sofas, stools, room dividers, chaise lounges, all masterfully woven pieces that become the absolute centerpiece in an all-new way of experiencing home living.

A designer with Venetian roots, Monica Madotto combines her passion for art and design with a background in business and marketing. Having worked with important luxury companies worldwide, she has also collaborated on projects for hotels, public spaces, and luxury homes in the USA and Latin America. In 2016, she founded her own line and collaborates with hotel chains as a design curator. All of her products are one of a kind and are testimony to the best of Italian artisanal tradition.

Since 1985, UNO Contract has been an international reference point for interior design for luxury hotels, residences, and cruise ships. All their designs are made in Italy, near Venice, where mastery, artisanry, and design reach the highest levels of excellence. The company, now led by the second generation alongside management experts, combines tradition and innovation to respond to the needs of an international clientele.

A young French-Italian artist and designer, Timothée Narduzzi has collaborated with Artmura since 2008, creating decorative panels and making one-of-a-kind pieces. The use of Materia, influenced by the artistic research of Alberto Burri, is part of all his works, where it becomes simultaneously an abstract structure and a geometric composition expressed through raised and concave spaces. Since his debut, Narduzzi has collaborated with important designers from around the world.

Since the 1950s, Danese Milano has been a reference point for the Italian furnishing and design sectors. The company has been led by Carlotta de Bevilacqua since 1999, with art direction first by Ron Gilad and later by Giulio Iacchetti Danese. The company’s heritage, with work from Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari, Angelo Mangiarotti and Achille Castiglioni, continues today as the company continues to work with internationally renowned designers, artists and architects.

An economist with a life-long passion for art and design, Giulia Ligresti presented her LOVE collection at the 2018 Salone del Mobile in collaboration with the Silvia Porro Architects Studio: elegant chairs made by hand in gold-plated iron and precious velvets. Ligresti followed up with a larger collection of chairs, consoles, love seats, tables and sculptures in iron, copper, bronze, aluminum, all inspired by love. In 2020, Ligresti held her first personal exhibit at the Glauco Cavaciuti Gallery in Milan.

Founded in 1997, Getty Images Gallery is the only gallery with complete access to the Getty Images archive, the largest commercial photography collection in the world with over 80 million images. Getty Images Gallery offers exclusive access to the entire collection of Slim Aarons, whose negatives and transparencies are conserved at the Hulton Archive in London. The team of curators works incessantly to digitalize and retouch the legendary images to the highest quality using the best printing techniques.