The Artisans

“I got into pottery for its most peculiar quality: giving shape, solidity, and resistance to fleeting images, fantasies, impalpable corners of one's inner world.” Cecilia Ariaudo is a contemporary ceramist based in Rome, Italy who merges a century-old traditional craft with the timeless value of the senses, drawing inspiration from experience and the surrounding world. Her works are one-of-a-kind, exclusive pieces of interior design.

Creativity, sustainability, and coherence are fuel for Copiosa’s furniture collections. Marked by a distinctive contemporary flair, each piece reflects the brand’s commitment to exploring new design horizons and satisfying customers’ needs and expectations. Collaboration with talented designers - such as Tom Kelly, Werther Toffoloni, and Emilio Nanni among others - strengthens this vision, where young generations are invited to look at the past and present to explore the future.

Born in Poggibonsi near Siena, Tuscany, artist Cecilia Chiavistelli was introduced to arts by Senese master Otello Chiti and painter and engraver Leopoldo Ferruzzi. Her first exhibition in her hometown in 1977 sowed the seeds for a satisfying professional path that, from 1993 on, took her to Roncegno, Italy, Freiberg, Germany, Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, and the Czech Republic for symposiums and exhibitions. A freelance journalist since 2007, Chavistelli is currently dedicated to her own graphic design studio and to attending stages and training courses.

Marila Zanella’s creations cannot be classified as furnishing, sculptures, or installations; they are a manifestation of pure emotion. Inspired by the perfection of nature, each piece is minutely handcrafted through a process that begins with painstaking research and ends with minute sartorial detailing. The energy from an idea or an experience is transformed into designs exuding originality and poetry. Sometimes reinventing pieces from old armchairs and sofas, the approach always stays a step into the future.

Based in Ossola, Piedmont, Pietre Trovanti distills the magic of stone offcuts sourced from design and applied arts projects by transforming them into objets d’art. Embracing a design vision inspired by nature, where every beginning stems from an end, its collections feature pieces conceived by designers and crafted by skilled artists and local artisans. The finished products are entirely unrepeatable, from their shape and weight to the gradients and mineral kind. Pietre Trovanti’s pieces are like snowflakes: though descending from the same cloud, they are individually unique.

Transforming his passion into a career, Claudio Orlandi began exhibiting his photography pieces in 2010, taking part in various art fairs and collaborating with major designated magazines. His oeuvres display a distinctive minimalist style, an essential abstraction that is philosophically profound, reflecting the concept of vastness and details.

A research project emerging from the partnership between Wall&decò and AtemporaryStudio, CARTEdition explores the bond between contemporary art and wall coverings. Their original artwork is printed or pressed on top-quality wallpapers, turning them into authentic vertical stories that strike a chord while infusing a distinctive charm into an interior. Quality, technique, and style are the leading principles behind every design, leading to collections of exceptional sartorial flair that stand out on the international market.

Doodesign is an interior design studio in Bologna specialised in finishes like curtains, sofas, wallpapers, lighting, flooring, and more. The three founders leverage research and innovation to propose striking decors and furnishings that put the customer at the center, using historic brands, icons, new trends, and up-and-coming designers to build their vision. Their collaboration with artist Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi resulted in the Stele Outdoor Collection, a line of bespoke pieces with distinctive phyto-inspired/traditional traits that effortlessly bridge past and present.

Coloriage is a place for sharing, teaching, and learning timeless crafting techniques, offering free seminars and courses for migrants and the unemployed who enjoy being creative. Artisans, designers, and masters from all backgrounds share their knowledge and stories in a small workshop with a big objective: a sartorial studio that uses recycled and recyclable materials to create unique pieces of multicultural inspiration, showcasing splendid contemporary shapes and colors.

A sublime combination of realist techniques and inspirations with surrealist influences and creativity, Marco Grassi is an Italian artist based in Friuli Venezia Giulia. He encourages a silent dialogue between the subject and the audience through distinctive portraits displaying passionate and minute attention to detail. Merging decorative accents and hyper-realistic hues, he recently developed an interest in wood, enhancing the nonconformity of his body of work. His many solo and group exhibitions have been hosted in Berlin, Zurich, Amsterdam, Kiev, and Italy.

Born in Rome in 1967, Oliviero Pagliaroli started his professional path as a designer and architect after attending a Fine Arts High School followed by an Architecture degree at the Roma Tre University. While partnering with architectural firms and participating in national and international contests, he progressively turned to painting and fully embracing Informalism, with its abstract and gestural tendencies. In 2000, he founded his atelier BLACK OFFICE and began collaborating with artist Aleandro Nardinocchi, co-founder of the WHITECUBE3 exhibition area in Rome.

The 2013 recipient of the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the Syrian War, photographer, journalist, and author Fabio Bucciarelli has spent the last decade creating striking images through a distinctive storytelling style centered on human rights. Renowned worldwide for his documentation of conflicts and humanitarian consequences of war, the multi-awarded photographer is also a writer for national and international magazines and wrote a book on the Libyan conflict. More recently, he has worked as a curator and artistic director with Italian Museums.

Ziranu & Balvis is a woodworking workshop founded in 1960 by Giovanni Ziranu. Located in the small town of Orani in the Province of Nuoro, Sardinia, it combines classic techniques of carpentry with traditional Sardinian inlay works and engravings. Ziranu passed on his knowledge and the workshop’s reins to his nephew Francesco Balvis, who, inspired by his uncle’s mastery, now creates traditional and modern furniture for the company.

Founded in 1903, Alimonti prides itself on meticulous observance of tradition. The company is committed to the value of artisan craftsmanship and tireless pursuit of innovation. Unmatched know-how of materials and techniques has helped the brand evolve into Alimonti Milano, which - with its luxury showroom in Milan - is poised to be a leader on the international stage. Master craftsmen tend to every step in the crafting process, ensuring each piece is one-of-a-kind and tailored to the customer’s needs.

Milan-based artist Alessandra Zorzi was born in Treviso in a family of publishers. Her progressive approach to art evolved over the course of her career as a professional architect in Milan. Her artwork - ranging from printed “tapestries” and paintings to animation films - embodies a tireless pursuit and research into an independent imaginative language that has its roots in art archetypes. Magazzini Del Sale in Venice, Maschio Angioino in Naples, and Palazzo Ducale in Mantua are just a few of the prestigious historical sites that have hosted her works.

Founded by leather goods designer Serena Cancellier and jewelry designer Mercedes Salazar, Casa Remedios is a first-rate workshop specializing in sculptural pieces that blend friendship and a shared passion for artisanal craftsmanship. Creating unique pieces in gold handmade by Colombian craftsmen, the Paris-based Italian and Colombian designers collaborate with renowned icons of the fashion and art world to create their one-of-a-kind pieces.

Adriano Cisani is a world-renowned photographer from Milan, who has collaborated with international magazines such as Rolling Stones, Vogue (US, Japan, Italy, Brazil and Thailand) since 2013 and works for well-known clients including Gucci, Aspesi and Maserati. With over a decade of experience in fashion photography and reportage projects, his distinctive style follows a humoristic approach to stereotypes, combining extravagant visuals with an artistic allure. His current work honors his original and creative flair by developing special projects for fashion brands and creating art installations.

For over 20 years, ceramicist Perla Guidotti has been honing and developing her craft. An associate of the “Elena and Leonetti Tintori frescoes lab” in Prato where she once attended courses by master ceramist Salvatore Cipolla, Guidotti is one of the founders of “Arte della Ceramica”, an association with over sixty members across Italy that organizes the annual International Pottery Fair in Florence. “Made in Italy” and “Argillà” exhibitions in Faenza are just two of many events where she has showcased her works.

Constantin Migliorini was born in Tuscany. He graduated in 1993 from the Art Institute of Siena with a degree in painting decoration and he continued his studies at the Fine Arts Academy of Florence, where he graduated in 1999. After his studies, he lived and worked in Spain, Seville, and Granada, for two years. His artworks have been showcased in solo exhibits and major exhibitions, such as "The 3rd Dafen International Oil Painting Biennale, Shenzhen2022", in Dafen Art Museum, China; "Premio Michetti", in PAC, Padiglione Arte Contemporanea Milano; “Too loud a solitude, between the double and the opposite", in N.I. Art Galleria Tetovo, Macedonia. Today he teaches painting and scenography at the art school of Varese.

In 2013, twin brothers Gianluca and Gianmarco Gamberini founded L’Artiere Edizioni, a publishing house specializing in photography books aimed at expert photographers, collectors, fans, and novices. L’Artiere Edizioni strongly believes in the concept of quality and attention to every detail of the finished product, devoted to creating volumes that are aesthetically pleasing and made to last. Passion, dedication, technical know-how, and craftsmanship are the cornerstones of L’Artiere, with quality serving as their inspiring watchword.