The Artisans

After fifteen years as a renowned sommelier, Dario Piluso left his career behind to run a thirty-year pottery workshop run by his mother Santina Raimondo. This is how Ceramiche Baroquè came to life, with the purpose of reinventing traditional Caltagirone pottery in an exquisitely contemporary aesthetic for fine dining, mixology, and home décor. Unique techniques mastered by expert hands ensure each piece is unrepeatable, molded to let ordinary and extraordinary coexist.

Focusing on long-term projects of a personal nature, Italian independent photographer, and former anthropology student, Daniele Vita sees photography as a tool for documenting everyday life. Recipient of several awards and exhibiting his work since the early 2000s and a renowned contributor for Italian and foreign magazines, foundations, and social cooperatives, his three published works span from 2009 to 2019 with the latter exploring traditional Sicily during the holy week.

Founded by Danilo Farinon in the 1960s, Decormarmi specializes in first-rate marble manufacturing. Located on the hills surrounding Vicenza, it works with natural stone in various forms and aesthetic compositions, combining it with other materials in the hand-making process following ancient and modern techniques. Boasting collaborations with prominent figures such as Christophe Pillet, Enzo Berti, Marco Piva, Matteo Nunziati, Alberto Apostoli, and Sebastiano Zilio, its unique pieces are customizable to fit personal preferences and decor styles.

Alice Del Ferraro discovered her passion for ceramics in 2017 during a stimulating apprenticeship lasting several years. Through a hands-on learning process, she honed her drawing, modeling, and decorating skills, discovering her calling. She founded her workshop soon after completing her intensive studies, serving as a creative space for experimenting with various clays, techniques, and textures to refine her artistic language. Her work fuses sculptural and functional elements, using mainly stoneware clay and traditional hand-building methods.

Esadesign is the place where interior design becomes tailor-made, transforming the emotions of living in the home into tangible and explorable realities. A new idea of luxury emerges thanks to an international profile, a mirrored picture of a long research path gained around the expressive ways of the materials and the careful space modulation of the spaces that belong to an actual and surprising daily routine.

Hugo Schaer was born in 1952 in Lucerne, Switzerland. A graduate of the School of Design in Lucerne and of the Académie Grand Chaumière in Paris, he began participating in exhibitions and interdisciplinary art projects in the 1980s, mostly with video making, painting, and sculptures. Deeply involved in the Swiss artistic and cultural scene and later that of Odessa, Ukraine, he now collaborates with the Italian “Fabbrica Ceramiche Giuseppe Mazzotti 1903″ in Albisola, creating unique sculptures and ceramics marked by a distinctive yet sophisticated style.

Sergio Fiorentino was born in 1973 in Catania, where studied art and antique restoration at the Abadir Academy of Fine Arts in Catania; in 2012 founded his studio in Noto where he lives and works. In his artworks, faces and bodies of water and stone rise and disappear. A contemporary classicism that sometimes flakes off. Divers, saints, twins, and portraits remain motionless wrapped in ultramarine blue. A beauty revealed but protected by schools of tuna and garfish, leaves and plants, scratches, drips, and abrasions.

Somma 1867 is a historic wool mill with an entirely Italian supply chain and more than 150 years of manufacturing experience, rooted in the Lake Como Region. The company creates fabrics and furnishing accessories in its factories using unique and unrepeatable yarns and finishes. Attention to detail generates unique and precious products, the production of excellence transforms them into sartorial masterpieces.

Established in the 1950s as a spin-off of the renowned Milanese brand “Spotti”, SEM filled the gap in the industry between artisan and high-volume productions by offering customizable furniture collections. Seventy years of knowledge and cultivated professional relationships flank a tireless drive for experimentation, its trademark collections reflecting a commitment to functionality and curiosity. Hannes Peer, Zaven, Marcante-Testa, Vormen, Giacomo Moor, and Elisa Ossino are among the brilliant professionals behind SEM’s iconic designs.

A delicate and sophisticated, raw and natural shade of beige characterizes Pimar Limestone’s designs. The brand is a magnificent tribute to the century-old tradition of Lecce limestone, a worldwide sought-after source of inspiration for architects, designers, and artists. Based in the heart of Salento, Pimar does everything in-house, from the extraction of stone to processing, creating exclusive interior design projects and extraordinary collections of versatile and modern designs.

Alberto Alicata (b. 1983) is a Milan-based photographer and artist. Whether behind fashion shoot or in art project, his work is marked by his unique perspective on art and style, driven by a sensitivity to the personal essence of his subjects or the creative vision of the art. His works have appeared in such publications as Elle Italia, Vogue China, D-laRepubblica, Vanity Fair, Wired, theGuardian, Telegraph, L'Oeil De La Photographie, among others. Has won, in 2016, the Sony World Photography Awards and, in 2022, the Duane Michals MA-g Awards.

An eclectic ensemble of painting and drawing on ancient papers, canvases, and wooden boards, contemporary artist Federica Giulianini’s art is both still and dynamic, evoking an emotional and intimate relation with the viewer in its delicate and pale landscape portraits of the natural world. Shapes and colors merge in a unique aesthetic, exuding a romantic, somewhat nostalgic essence that is a trademark of Giulianini’s art.

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 Ambrogio 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.

At Dolomitisch, art and topography merge in iconic furniture pieces encapsulating majestic mountain landscapes. Based in Bozen, Dolomitisch offers breathtaking orographic landscapes minutely carved from solid wood by combining satellite technology, CNC machinery, and artisan mastery together with fine metallic finishes. Thanks to its top-notch customizing process, customers can request the mountain range they desire, which will add to all other unique pieces contributing to the reforestation of Dolomites' forests.

A precious family heritage of drawings, samples, and more than 1300 designs handed down for three generations is the driving force behind Vangelista 1960. Specialized in furniture collections reflecting the distinctive traits that earned Italian design global plaudit, the company exclusively uses 16th- and 17th-century techniques executed by master craftsmen. Customers cannot help but be seduced by the one-off furniture pieces, captivating with their unique shapes, finishes, and colors.

Founded in 1989 in Florence, the heart of Italian art, architecture, and craftsmanship, Devon&Devon is a high-end design and manufacturing company specializing in bespoke interior solutions working alongside architects and contractors. Imbued with a sleek contemporary and classic flair, its flawless and richly-detailed pieces draw inspiration from a sophisticated mixture of styles such as French 18th-century art, Neoclassicism, Art Nouveau, the Jazz Age, la Dolce Vita, and the 1950s eclectic modernism.