Florentine mirror in baroque style

Exceptional design combined with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship give the synonym of 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 — 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 was established as a sculptural manufactory and has always been a production brand that researches new products, designs them, creates samples, hand-sculpts them entirely, 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 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 fully manual modifications by carpenters. This way, the brand can furnish a bedroom, living room, bathroom, or boudoir according to your design.

Style

Florentine style is identified 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 features carved parts with a current, fresh, and elegant taste; each part is well “toothed,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet very 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 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 geographical areas. Skilled professionals with great design abilities and stylistic knowledge are required, 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, a scaled drawing of the item is first required, 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 specialized carpenters, who know how to assemble the carved elements, complete the process. Only these three professionals ensure a highly 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 any from other regions:

“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 real silver leaf finishes (Ghiaccio, Bianco, Consumato, Strappato). These can be further covered with Meccata (coated with a special, ancient color, still used today, called Mekka, in finishes like Mekka and MeccaAntica), to resemble gold when in the past, people could not afford real gold.