Baroque armchair from Florence

Peculiar design combined with the highest quality raw materials and craftsmanship give the image of the Florence Art manufactory.

Tradition

Among the streets of Florence, one can breathe art, from S. Croce to Ponte Vecchio, and then again among the sculptures and paintings and furnishings of the Medici villas, a unique city, a territory where artists and craftsmen have found their lifeblood for centuries. Florence Art was born in 1950 from this tradition, the manual skills of Tuscan workers, a love for art and beauty, a passion for the classics and what made this territory great. It was born as a sculptural manufactory and has always been a production brand that explores new products, designs them, creates samples, sculpting them entirely by hand, pantographs them and prepares them for decoration. The entire production is carried out entirely in the 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, is able to carry out any kind of work, even not in the Florentine style, as evidenced by some works done for luxury hotels. On each item, Florence Art is able to make any modification and customisation, as well as work for modification by the carpenter entirely by hand. In this way, the brand can furnish a bedroom, living room, bathroom, boiserie, according to your design.

Style

The Florentine style is identified by the way carving, finishing, and design of articles are done, and these features are typical only of a very small area, namely Florence. Every item made in the Florentine style has carved parts, but with a current, fresh, elegant taste, each part is well "toothed"; that is, they are well-defined, which harmonises with a classic but very youthful taste. The lines of the items are both elegant and romantic. Silver, coloured, and gold finishes make each line even more elegant and youthful.

Pattern and Sculpture

Sculpture is the result of an increasingly difficult-to-preserve legacy of Florentine traditions, distinguished by grace, harmony, and is an element of enhancement and identification of the entire production line and as it happens in Florence, it cannot be confused with other geographical areas. Professional figures with great abilities and design skills and stylistic knowledge are needed, such as the "sculptor", who must create "models" of each item and then carve them.

The model is the part used to reproduce the sculpture with a pantograph and to first make it must have a scaled drawing of the article, then it is entirely hand-carved in wood. It is cut into pieces because the pantograph works on pieces no wider than about 20 cm and about 190 cm long. To work on the pantograph, a "pantographer" is needed, who will replicate the model in 16 or 24 pieces, and then "carpenters", but specialised ones, because they must know how to assemble the carved elements. Only these three professionals make the production already more qualified and of greater value.

Decoration

Decoration, always completely manual, becomes an even more qualifying element in various finishes, those made in Florence are not comparable to those from any other geographical area:

The "gouache" decoration used throughout art history, from the Renaissance, which was born in Florence and in all other stylistic periods, concerns both gold leaf (e.g., Zecchino and Antique patina) and Real Silver leaf finishes (Ghiaccio, Bianco, Consumato, Strappato), which could then be Meccata (covered with a special, ancient colour, still used, Mecca, in finishes, Mecca and MeccaAntica), to look like gold when in the past they did not have the money to buy real gold.