Standing lamp from Florence

Fascinating design

combined with the highest quality raw materials and craftsmanship, embody the essence

of the Florence Art brand.

Tradition

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

and paintings and furnishings of the Medici villas, a unique 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, love for art and beauty, and a passion for

classics and what made this territory great. It was founded as a sculpture company and has always been a manufacturing brand that explores 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 Art Florence 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 product 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, but 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 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 heritage of Florentine traditions, distinguished by grace, harmony, and serving as a highlight and identifier of the entire production line. As is characteristic of Florence, it cannot be confused with other geographic areas. Skilled professionals with strong 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 create it first, an artwork drawing at scale is needed, then it is entirely hand-sculpted 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” device that copies the model into 16 or 24 pieces, then “carpenters,”

highly specialized, because they need to 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 geographic area:

“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 genuine 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, Mekka and MeccaAntica), to resemble gold when, in the past, there was no money to purchase real gold.