An unusual Italian mirror with carvings

Fascinating design

combined with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship, embody the

essence of the Florence Art brand.

Tradition

In the streets of Florence, you can breathe art, from S. Croce to Ponte Vecchio, and then again among sculptures

and paintings and furnishings of the Medici villas, a unique city, a territory where artists and

craftsmen have found their life force for centuries. The Florence Art brand was born in 1950

from this tradition, the manual skills of Tuscan artisans, a love for art and beauty, and a passion for

classics and what made this territory great. It was established as a sculpture workshop and has always been a manufacturing brand that explores new products, designs them, creates samples, sculpting them

entirely by hand, pantographing them, and preparing them for decoration. All production is carried out entirely in

Florentine style; each element is designed by one of our designers, making it

unique.

Design

Florence Art, with its in-house designers, sculptors, and carpenters, can produce any

type of work, even outside the Florentine style, as evidenced by some projects made for luxury hotels.

On every Florence Art piece, modifications and adjustments can be made, including

custom work by carpenters entirely by hand. This way, the brand can furnish a bedroom, living room, bathroom, or boudoir, according to your design.

Style

The Florentine style is characterized by the way sculptures, finishes, and product designs are executed, and these features are unique to a very small area, such as Florence. Every item made in the Florentine style has carved parts, but with a current, fresh, and elegant taste; each part is well “toothed,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet very youthful style. The lines of the items are simultaneously elegant and romantic. Silver, colored, and gold finishes make each line even more elegant and youthful.

Pattern and Sculpture

Sculpture results from the increasingly challenging Florentine tradition's legacy, distinguished by grace, harmony, and serving as a highlight and identifier of the entire production line. As is the case in Florence, it cannot be confused with other geographic areas. Skilled professionals with strong design skills and stylistic knowledge are required, such as a “sculptor,” who must create “models” of each item and then sculpt them.

A model is the part used to reproduce the sculpture with a pantograph; to create it first, a scaled drawing of the item is needed, then it is entirely hand-sculpted in wood. It is cut into pieces because the pantograph works on sections no wider than about 20 cm and about 190 cm long. Working with the pantograph requires a “Pantograph” that copies the model into 16 or 24 pieces, then “carpenters,”

highly specialized, because they need to know how to assemble the carved elements. Only these three professionals

make the production more skilled and valuable.

Decoration

Decoration, always entirely handmade, becomes an even more refined element in various finishes; those made in Florence are incomparable to those from any other geographic area:

“Gouache” decoration used throughout art history, from the Renaissance, which originated in Florence, and in all other stylistic periods, applies to both gold leaf (e.g., Zecchino and Antique Patina),

and genuine silver leaf finishes (Ghiaccio, Bianco, Consumato, Strappato), which could then be covered with Mecca (coated with a special, ancient color, still used, called Mekka, in finishes like Mekka and MeccaAntica), to resemble gold when in the past, there was no money to buy real gold.