Elegant showcase from Florence

Incredible design combined with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship results in an image

of the Florence Art manufactory.

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 classical styles and what made this territory great. It was established 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 the 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 execute 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 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 designs are executed, and these features are unique to a very small area—Florence. Every item made in the Florentine style has carved parts, but with a current, fresh, and elegant taste. Each part is well “notched,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet youthful aesthetic. 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 is the result of an increasingly difficult-to-preserve heritage of Florentine traditions, 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 geographic areas. Skilled professionals with strong 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 article drawing at scale is needed first, then it is entirely hand-sculpted 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 needs a “Pantograph” machine to replicate the model into 16 or 24 pieces, which are then assembled by highly skilled “carpenters” who know how to join the carved elements. Only these three professionals ensure that the production is highly skilled and valuable.

Decoration

Decoration, always entirely handmade, becomes an even more specialized 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, to 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 be further treated with techniques like Meccata (covered with a special ancient color, still used today, called Mekka, in finishes such as Mekka and MeccaAntica), to resemble gold when, in the past, there was no money to purchase real gold.