Baroque chest of drawers from Italy

Enchanting designs combined with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship give the image of the Florence Art brand.

Tradition

Among the streets of Florence, you can breathe art, from S. Croce to Ponte Vecchio, and then again among sculptures, paintings, and furnishings of the Medici villas—an exceptional 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 classicism and what made this territory great. It originated as a sculpture workshop and has always been a manufacturing brand that explores 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. In 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, elegant taste; each part is well “toothed,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet youthful style. The lines of the objects are simultaneously elegant and romantic. Silver, colored, and gold finishes make each line even more refined and youthful.

Pattern and Sculpture

Sculpture results from the increasingly challenging Florentine tradition, distinguished by grace and harmony, and is a key element in highlighting and identifying the entire production line. As is characteristic of Florence, it cannot be confused with other geographic areas. Skilled professionals with strong design abilities and stylistic knowledge—such as sculptors—are required to produce models of each item, which are then sculpted.

A model is a part used to reproduce the sculpture with a pantograph; to create it, an illustration of the item at scale is needed, and 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 approximately 190 cm long. The pantograph replicates the model into 16 or 24 pieces, which are then assembled by highly specialized carpenters who know how to join the carved elements. Only these three professionals ensure a higher level of craftsmanship and value in production.

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 region:

“Gouache” decoration, used throughout art history—from the Renaissance, which originated in Florence, to all other stylistic periods—applies to both gold leaf (e.g., Zecchino and Antique Patina) and genuine silver leaf finishes (Ghiaccio, Bianco, Consumato, Strappato). These can be finished with techniques like Meccato (covered with a special, ancient color still in use today, called Mekka, in finishes such as Mekka and MeccaAntica), to resemble gold when there was no budget for real gold in the past.