Pietrachiara

PIETRACHIARA was born from the desire to create timeless products by creating a marriage between the classic and the modern, distant aesthetics and Italian craftsmanship.
Pietrachiara's creations draw inspiration from past traditions, reinterpreting them with modern lines, materials and colors, albeit following an artisanal process, to help keep alive and hand down professions and processes that are being lost. Their idea of sustainability comes precisely from conceiving high-quality
products that will endure and improve with time, and an aesthetic that disregards the trends of the moment so as to create pieces that follow customers into their homes and lives, and that can be handed
down over time.
Pietro and Chiara met after working in the worlds ofart and fashion in some of the world's most important metropolises; their passion for the pursuit of beauty and aesthetic simplicity brought them together and led them to unearth small artisans and workshops and ancient traditions of Italian craftsmanship,from carving to ceramics.
The Anne column, for example, which they presented at their first Milan Design Week in 2023, is a mix of this search for the ancient and the modern: after assembling solid linden pieces into the shape of a column, it is then shaped on a pantograph and subsequently finished with hand carving (with a week's work per column just for the carving). When colored, the color is applied and then "ragged" by hand with a cloth to achieve a somewhat faded effect and make it similar to the source of inspiration for this palette: the
columns of the Upper Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi.
The use of natural materials is preferred for each product, always FSC-certified wood and, where possible and available, and by prior arrangement with the customer, recycled wood for some custom-made items.