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Original design combined with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship give the brand Florence Art its synonym.

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, and passion for classical styles that made this territory great. It started as a sculptural company 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 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 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, and elegant taste; each part is well “toothed,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet 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 challenging Florentine tradition, 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 great 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 and then be 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. Working with the pantograph requires a “Pantograph” machine, which copies the model into 16 or 24 pieces, then “carpenters,” who are highly specialized to know how to assemble the carved elements. Only these three professionals ensure that the production is more skilled and valuable.

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 region:

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