Baroque chest of drawers from Florence

Enchanting design combined with the highest quality raw materials and craftsmanship showcase the Florence Art manufactory.

Tradition

Among the streets of Florence, you can breathe art, from S. Croce to Ponte Vecchio, and then again amidst sculptures, paintings, and furnishings of the Medici villas — a unique city, a territory where artists and artisans have found their life force for centuries. Florence Art was born in 1950 from this tradition, the manual skills of Tuscan craftsmen, a love for art and beauty, and a passion for classics and what made this territory great. It originated as a sculpture company and has always been a production brand that researches new products, designs them, creates samples, and sculpts them entirely by hand, pantographs them, and prepares them for decoration. All production is carried out entirely in Florentine style; each element is designed by one of our designers and is unique.

Design

With its in-house designers, sculptors, and carpenters, Florence Art can produce any type of work, even outside the Florentine style, as evidenced by some pieces made for luxury hotels. On every Florence Art item, modifications and adjustments can be made, including fully manual modifications by carpenters. 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 designs are executed, and these features are unique to a very small area — Florence. Every item made in the Florentine style has carved parts with a current, fresh, and elegant taste; each part is well “notched,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet 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 heritage, distinguished by grace and harmony, and is a key element in highlighting and identifying the entire production line. As is the case in Florence, it cannot be confused with other geographical areas. Skilled professionals with great design abilities and stylistic knowledge are required, such as “sculptors” 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 produce it, an illustration of the item at scale is needed first, then it is entirely hand-carved in wood. It is cut into pieces because the pantograph works on segments no wider than about 20 cm and about 190 cm long. The pantograph operator replicates the model in 16 or 24 pieces, then “carpenters,” who are highly specialized, assemble the carved elements. Only these three professionals ensure a more skilled and valuable production process.

Decoration

Decoration, always entirely handmade, becomes an even more skilled element in various finishes. Those made in Florence are incomparable to those from any other geographical 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 also be finished with Meccata (covered with a special ancient color, still used, called Mekka, in finishes like Mekka and MeccaAntica), to resemble gold when there was no money to buy real gold in the past.