Italian baroque style bedside table

Original design

combined with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship create a synonym

for the brand Florence Art.

Tradition

In the streets of Florence, you can breathe art, from S. Croce to Ponte Vecchio, and then again among sculptures

and paintings and furnishings of the Medici villas, an exceptional city, a territory where artists and

craftsmen have found their life force for centuries. The Florence Art brand was born in 1950

from this tradition, the manual skills of Tuscan artisans, a love for art and beauty, and a passion for

classics and what made this territory great. It was founded as a sculpture workshop and has always been a manufacturing brand, which explores new products, designs them, creates samples, carving them

completely by hand, pantographing them, and preparing them for decoration. All production is carried out entirely in

Florentine style, each element designed by one of our designers, making it

unique.

Design

Florence Art, with its internal designers, sculptors, and carpenters, can produce any

type of work, even outside the Florentine style, as evidenced by some pieces made for luxury hotels.

On every Florence Art item, it is possible to make any modifications and adjustments, as well as

custom work by carpenters, all done entirely by hand. This way, the brand can furnish a bedroom, living room, bathroom, boutique, according to your design.

Style

The Florentine style is characterized by the way sculptures, finishes, and product designs are executed, and these features are unique to a very small area, such as Florence. Each item made in the Florentine style has carved parts, but with a current, fresh, elegant taste; each part is well “notched,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet very youthful style. The lines of the items 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 challenging Florentine tradition’s legacy, distinguished by grace, harmony, and serving as an element that highlights and identifies the entire production line. As is the case in Florence, it cannot be confused with other geographical areas. Professional figures with great skills, design ability, 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, and to create it first, a scaled drawing of the item 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. For pantograph work, a “Pantograph” is needed to replicate the model in 16 or 24 pieces, followed by highly skilled carpenters who must know how to assemble the carved elements. Only these three professionals make the production more skilled and valuable.

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