The Artisans

Our mission is to manufacture furniture, decoration, accessories that can enlight your emotions. To do this, every day we work to develop our collections with both our staff and many external collaborators. We give special attention to our partners' value and contribution, to guarantee the best working and sustainability conditions. To achieve oru purpose, we develope an authentic design, that is the expression of our style.

Living between India, Thailand, and Austria as a child, Maria Christina Hamel moved to Milan at the end of the 1970s where she studied Industrial Design at the Scuola Politecnica di Design. Starting off her career alongside designers such as Andries van Onck, Ugo La Pietra, and Ambrose Rossari, she was Alessandro Mendini’s assistant in Vienna for over ten years. Her unique style captures influences of her multicultural background, handcrafted in historic traditional places. She also teaches and her works are part of the permanent collection of the Triennale di Milano.

“Clay lets me experience the beauty of natural rhythms”. Cristina Cavallari is an Italian contemporary ceramist with a small yet vibrant workshop where she embodies different roles. Her artistic philosophy is deeply rooted in the respect for the natural world, as inspiration but also as our home. With this in mind, she creates unique oeuvres tracing the slow passage of Nature’s time, taking care of her clay in the art that transforms a ductile raw material into a solid object.

Named after its founder, an engineer with over thirty years of experience in the interior design industry, Andrea Burana is a distinctive brand breaking the boundaries between the past and the contemporary. Collaborating with architects and interior designers from diverse backgrounds and artistic philosophies, its exclusive and elegant pieces feature singular textures and shapes handcrafted by expert artisans.

DMG Fiesole was established by brothers Mario and Ferdinando Modi in the 1960s in a small workshop in Fiesole, an ancient Etruscan-origin hamlet on the hills just outside Florence. In 1982, Luigi Giannelli took the company, propelling the brand to national and international recognition. Currently run by Mario Barbari and his son Damiano, generation after generation DMGF is a specialist in wrought iron processing, using a traditional forge and mallet to make every piece. DMGF's elegant furniture collections are designed by architect Pietro Porcinai to last a lifetime.

A tribute to “Made in Italy”, Hemo creates interior design pieces with a versatile and sophisticated character, down to the smallest detail. Merging international inspirations with traditional roots, the brand is based in Brianza, the furniture-making capital of Italy, bringing with it a deep and familiar knowledge of raw materials as well as modern and innovative techniques.

Dolomitisch fuses art and geography, crafting unique furniture pieces that encapsulate the breathtaking majesty of global mountain landscapes. Situated in Bozen (Italy), Dolomitisch bespoke creations combine satellite technology, CNC machinery, and artisanal finesse to carve iconic landscapes onto solid wood, enriched with high-end metal finishes. Dolomitisch offers a highly personalized experience, enabling clients to commission pieces that perfectly embody their chosen mountain range.

Landscapes and still lifes, flowers, and cities, characterized by changing colors and textures, are the eternal source of inspiration of Italian contemporary painter and engraver Enrico Suzzani, born and raised in a small town in Lombardy, where he also lives and works. Exuding a distinctive sensitivity towards Nature, his oeuvres, inspired by French Impressionism, are filled with poetry and emotion and have been exhibited all around Italy.

A timeless testament to Italian craftsmanship, Alabastro Italiano is a contemporary design brand established by Riccardo and Alberto Ongarato. Taking on the family’s tradition of lighting design, the Ongarato brothers offer clean and original pieces handmade of refined materials such as alabaster, brass, leather, and blown glass, driven by an innovative and constantly-evolving artistic philosophy.

Artist, sculptor, and designer Gianmaria Potenza first started his own workshop in the 1950s while still a student at the Art Institute. Based in the heart of Venice, his pieces skillfully meticulously preserved the century-old techniques and know-how of the Venetian tradition reinterpreted in a contemporary key. He began exhibiting his oeuvres in the 60s and achieved international recognition in the 80s following a showcase of his iconic Ninfea Armonica sculpture, which traveled the world, from the streets of Istanbul to New York, to Hong Kong and St. Petersburg.

Born in Italy in 1955, Isabella Vismara studied art in Milan before moving to the United States for her artistic debut in a group exhibition at the Boston Fine Arts Museum in 1979. Her subsequent group exhibition - Gli AmiciPittori - was in 2002 at the Superstudio in Milan, achieving critical acclaim. Her signature painting technique, cold encaustic on wood, allows for a more textural effect than oil paint. Her Human Kind Visiting God (2014) in Robilant+Voena (London) and Anima Mundi (2016) at Sotheby's (Milan) are just a few of her successful solo exhibitions.

The duality of humans & nature and the artificial & natural are themes artist Leonardo Niola explores in his art. Born in Rome in 1991, he always loved drawing as a child, a passion that sowed the seeds for his artistic high school studies. The study of perspective, shadows, color, and visual perception nourished his self-taught path, achieving a style influenced by surrealism, expressionism, and graphic art. Decontextualization and desaturation are techniques he embraces in his paintings to convey a sense of immortality and intangibility.

Raised between Rome and Florence in the 1970s and ‘80s, Lorenzo Castore is an Italian photographer who fell in love with the craft after taking photos in the streets of New York City when he moved there in 1992. A trained lawyer, in 1999 he decided to leave his career to become a war photographer in Albania and Kosovo. Later on, his work shifted from in-the-field to slower, long-form photographic narratives, mainly drawing on his personal experience, memory, and the relation between individual stories. His photographs have been exhibited and published internationally.

Carlotta Oddone decided to forgo her flourishing career as a reporter to become an interior decorator. She spent five years in Rio de Janeiro immersed in local culture, paving the way for interior design consultancies and collaborations with prestigious firms in the Italian textile industry. Today, her own textile design brand mainly focuses on colorful prints on velvet, and her spaces are decorated to reflect the personality of those who inhabit them.

A world traveler and photographer, Dariusz Jasak is based in Florence, where he finds inspiration in the ever-flourishing artistic and architectural environment. Featured in Vogue, AD Italia, and Wallpaper, he collaborates with leading book publishers around the world. Capturing the fascinating essence of urban landscapes, streets, and their inhabitants, his works have been showcased in solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Stuttgart.

Cino Cini started producing combed fabrics for drapery in 1956, a move that paved the way for a long family history culminating with the foundation of Arcashmere in Prato, Tuscany. Now run by his son Fabrizio and his nephew Andrea, the company is renowned for producing top-quality textile accessories and home furnishing using cutting-edge technologies. Each scarf, poncho, or blanket is crafted only employing 100% cashmere, silk/cashmere blend, and more fine yarns. Boasting partnerships with international luxury brands, Archasmere values sustainability and human contribution.

An unconventional embodiment of a dynamic and fast-paced reality, DalMoto is a design brand based near the majestic Lake Como inspired by Futurist Italian architect Antonio Sant’Elia. Creating contemporary pieces following traditional crafting techniques combined with new technologies, each design is distinguished by meticulously handmade details that enhance their durability and comfort.

A true master glassmaker, Eros Raffael was born on the island of Murano. At the age of fourteen, he was already learning the craft from the best masters on the island. Raffael works with various techniques, following every single step of the production process to create extraordinary oeuvres, rich in color and character. He has exhibited his pieces in some of the most important museums around the world.

Creating timeless pieces that go beyond classic and contemporary paradigms, Pietrachiara is a Milan-based design studio that draws inspiration from artisan traditions, expressed in innovative colors, lines, and textures using refined and up-to-date materials. Particularly attentive to the sustainability of their pieces, Pietrachiara’s designs will accompany present and future generations and contribute to the creation of homey and singular decors.

Contemporary artist Alessandro D'Aquila, born in Abruzzo and now living in Milan, uses the Braille language as the protagonist of his artistic research. The choice to use a language not meant to be seen, but with powerful graphic properties, stems from the desire to bring to light themes that are often no longer the object of attention and the need to bring therefore new ones through imagination and intuition, going beyond words and finding answers within what may seem to be only a limitation.