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—an extraordinary city, a territory where artists and craftsmen have found their life force for centuries. Florence Art was born in 1950 from this tradition, skillful Tuscan artisans, love for art and beauty, passion for classical styles and what made this territory great. It was established as a sculpture 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

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 “notched,” meaning well-defined, harmonizing with a classic yet youthful style. The lines of the objects 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 it 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 high 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, an article drawing to scale is first required, 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” machine, which copies the model into 16 or 24 pieces, followed by “carpenters,” who are highly specialized to assemble the carved elements. Only these three professionals ensure that the production is highly 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 geographical area:

“Gwaszowa” decoration, used throughout art history from the Renaissance—born 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 (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.