Caiafa
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Caiafa Studio has an illustrious family tradition dating back to the 1600s when the Caiafa’s were renowned carvers in Naples. Over the generations, the family refined their craft, working with architects, artisans, and visionaries across the city and Europe to create exceptional pieces that honor an almost-forgotten artistic tradition. Under the leadership of Director Giuseppe Caiafa, the brand continues to pass on Neapolitan cultural and artistic traditions through Capodimonte porcelains, exquisite frames, marble and bronze sculptures, and interior decor pieces.
An Art Laboratory represents the essence of each Artist.
The wise development of Art, in all its forms, happens within the same laboratory.
Caiafa Laboratory combines beauty and experience and embraces Art Masters whose intent is to realize art operas of inestimable value. By visiting every corner of the laboratory, one may glimpse works of ancient Master Artisans, by now on the brick of extinction.
There isa perceived smell of wisdom and of the techniques which have been handed down from generation to generation, as if time had stood unchanged.
One who is accustomed to appreciate finished art-works is overwhelmed with emotion from observing the different processing steps which lead to the realization of true masterpieces.
The Creations of Capodimonte porcelain and of valuable frames, as well as the processing of marble and bronze...everything acquires an aura of magnificence.
The Caiafa Studio, expertly headed by the Director Giuseppe Caiafa, has quickly placed itself in the Italian Art scene thanks to the Director’s experience acquired over time, to his natural propensity to the cultural emerging paths, as well as his deep knowledge of the dynamics of the art market, always drawing on the historical roots of Neapolitan Art. A visionary and pioneer of the new artistic movements, Giuseppe Caiafa boasts an illustrious family tradition and a team of specialized artisans, with particular expertise of materials and a great mastery of the most antique and most-sought after techniques.
Over time, Caiafa Studio surrounded itself with clever hands, architects of all the enormous beauty that innervates its art laboratory, transposing thetraditions and making it an heir of memory, transferring it in its art-works, already famous and appreciated all around the world.
History honors traditions, passes on techniques which have now disappeared and increases the value of a handcraft.Caiafa
Studio has a long-standing and illustrious family tradition. Since 1600 there is documentation bearing testimony of the great
influence of the family, formerly known back then as renowned carvers.
In the Naples of the ‘700 the Caiafa have been recognized the merit and honor of having contributed to the reconstruction
of the most suggestive locations of the city.
The following years were years of great growth and achievements, allowing Raffaele Caiafa to reunite under his own direction
the most illustrious Art Masters and Neapolitan workforces with the aim of creating works of immeasurable value, which frame both the most exclusive Italian residences and especially the foreign ones.
To this day, the tradition has been passed on and is disclosed withutmost passion from Giuseppe Caiafa, a great expert and an art lover whom strongly wished to establish his studio in Posillipo, a place of enchanting beauty and perpetual inspiration for its artisans.
Today, the Studio avails itself of Art Masters passing on the Neapolitan tradition and render the works of immense cultural
value.