Elegant sofa from Florence

Original design

combined with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship, giving the synonym

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, love for art and beauty, passion for classics and what made this territory great. It was founded as a sculpture manufactory 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

Florence Art, with its in-house designers, sculptors, and carpenters, 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 identified by the way sculptures, finishes, and 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 with a current, fresh, elegant taste; each part is well “toothed,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet very 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 results from the increasingly difficult-to-preserve heritage of Florentine traditions, distinguished by grace and harmony, and is an element that highlights and identifies the entire production line. As is the case in Florence, it cannot be confused with other geographical areas. Skilled professionals with strong design abilities and stylistic knowledge are needed, 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 produce it, it must first have a scaled drawing of the item, then be entirely hand-carved 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” machine, which copies the model into 16 or 24 pieces, followed by “carpenters,” who are highly specialized because they need to know how to assemble the carved elements. Only these three professionals ensure a more skilled and valuable production.

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—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), which could later be treated with Meccata (covered with a special ancient color, still used today, called Mekka, in finishes, Mekka, and MeccaAntica), to resemble gold when there was no money to buy real gold in the past.