Elegant showcase from Florence

Amazing design combined with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship gives the image of the Florence Art manufactory.

Tradition

In the streets of Florence, you can breathe art, from S. Croce to Ponte Vecchio, and then again among sculptures and paintings and the furnishings of the Medici villas, a unique city, a territory where artists and craftsmen have found their lifeblood for centuries. The Florence Art company was born in 1950 from this tradition, the manual skills of Tuscan workers, from a love of art and beauty, from 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 type of work, even not in the Florentine style, as evidenced by some works done for luxury hotels. On each item, Florence Art can 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. Each item made in the Florentine style has carved parts but with a current, fresh, elegant taste; each part is well "notched"; that is, they are well-defined, which harmonises with a classic yet 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 is the case in Florence, it cannot be confused with other geographical areas. Professional figures with great design skills and stylistic knowledge are needed, such as the "sculptor," who must make "models" of each item and then carve them.

The model is the part used to recreate the sculpture with a pantograph, and to make it first, it must have a scale 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 a length of about 190 cm. 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 entirely 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.