Hand-painted chest of drawers from Florence

Unconventional design combined with the highest quality raw materials and craftsmanship is synonymous with the Florence Art brand.

Tradition

In the streets of Florence, one can breathe art, from S. Croce to Ponte Vecchio, and then again among the sculptures, 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 began as a sculptural workshop 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 capable of executing any type of work, even those 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 modifications 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 executed, and these characteristics are typical only of the very small area that is Florence. Each item made in the Florentine style has carved parts but with a current, fresh, elegant taste; each part is well "notched," meaning 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 mistaken for other geographical areas. Professional figures with great skills and design abilities and stylistic knowledge are needed, such as the "sculptor," who must create "models" of each item and then sculpt them.

The model is the part used to recreate the sculpture with a pantograph, and to first create it, there must be 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 with 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 more qualified and valuable.

Decoration

Decoration, always entirely manual, becomes an even more qualifying element in various finishes, those made in Florence are incomparable 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, involves 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.