Baroque wall lamp from Florence

Unique design combined with the highest quality raw materials and craftsmanship give the name Florence Art a true synonym.

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 started as a sculpture workshop and has always been a manufacturing 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

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 item, modifications and adjustments can be made, including fully handcrafted 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, and elegant taste; each part is well “toothed,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet youthful style. The lines of the objects are both elegant and romantic. Silver, colored, and gold finishes make each line even more elegant and youthful.

Pattern and Sculpture

Sculpture is the result of an increasingly difficult-to-preserve Florentine tradition, distinguished by grace and harmony, and it is an element that highlights and identifies the entire production line. As in Florence, it cannot be confused with other regions. Skilled professionals with strong design abilities and stylistic knowledge are required, such as a “sculptor,” who must create “models” of each object 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, 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 requires a “pantograph” device to duplicate the model into 16 or 24 parts, followed by highly specialized carpenters who know how to assemble the carved elements. Only these three professionals ensure a higher skill level and greater value in production.

Decoration

Decoration, always entirely handcrafted, 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—born in Florence—and in all other stylistic periods, applies to both gold leaf (e.g., Zecchino and Antique Patina) and real silver leaf finishes (Ghiaccio, Bianco, Consumato, Strappato). These can also be finished with Meccata (covered with a special ancient color, still used today, called Mekka, in finishes like Mekka and MeccaAntica), to resemble gold when, in the past, there was no money to buy real gold.