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, skillful Tuscan craftsmen, love for art and beauty, passion for classicism and what made this territory great. It originated 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.

Designing

Florence Art, with its internal designers, sculptors, and carpenters, is capable of executing 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

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 features 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 items are simultaneously elegant and romantic. Silver, colored, and gold finishes make each line even more elegant and youthful.

Pattern and Sculpture

Sculpture results from the increasingly challenging Florentine tradition’s legacy, distinguished by grace and harmony, and is a key element in highlighting and identifying the entire production line. As is typical in Florence, it cannot be confused with other regions. Skilled professionals with high design abilities and stylistic knowledge, such as “sculptors,” are required to create models of each item, which are then sculpted.

A model is the part used to reproduce the sculpture with a pantograph. To produce it, a scaled drawing of the item is first made, 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, which duplicates the model into 16 or 24 pieces, is operated by a specialist “pantograph operator,” followed by highly skilled carpenters who know how to assemble the carved elements. Only these three professionals ensure a more skilled and valuable production process.

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:

“Gwaszowa” 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 genuine silver leaf finishes (Ghiaccio, Bianco, Consumato, Strappato). These can be further covered with Meccata (a special ancient color, still used today, called Mecca, in finishes such as Mekka and MeccaAntica), to resemble gold when, in the past, there was no money to buy real gold.