Les lieux
Ateliers, boutiques et cuisines où quelqu’un travaille encore de ses mains. Chaque adresse a été choisie une par une, et reste hors de la carte tant qu’elle ne convainc pas.
Goldsmith working in the old techniques, with a jewel museum and a school inside the workshop.
Via di San Niccolò 115r
Silk woven on twelve looms, six of them eighteenth century, one of them built to a drawing by Leonardo.
Via Lorenzo Bartolini 4
Wood, carving and gilding: frames, mouldings and objects, since 1895.
Via di Santo Spirito 13-15r
Former convent and prison, now a contemporary art district and public space
Comment nous choisissons
Une seule question tranche : la même chose sortirait-elle d’ailleurs ? Si oui, l’adresse reste dehors. Restent les lieux où la main se voit dans le résultat.
Piazza delle Murate, 50122 Firenze FI, Italia
Bookbinding and marbled paper, in the same premises since 1856. Demonstrations and marbling by appointment.
Piazza Pitti 37r
Hand bookbinding since 1980: repairs of old volumes, new bindings in leather and marbled paper.
Via de’ Bardi 17
Florentine bespoke tailoring, cut and sewn in the house, in the same shopfront since the 1960s.
Via dei Fossi 43r
Perfumes composed by hand, bespoke fragrances by appointment, a museum and a garden of aromatic plants on the roof.
Via de’ Bardi 12
Goldsmithing from drawing to casting to setting, in Renaissance Florentine technique.
Via Ferdinando Zannetti 14-16r
Commesso fiorentino: pictures cut and fitted in hard and semi-precious stone, the Medici technique.
Piazza de’ Pitti 23-24r
Leather cut, tooled and gilded by hand, in the old dormitory of the Santa Croce friars.
Via di San Giuseppe 5r
Bespoke and hand-lasted shoes, with a shoemaking school attached.
Via di San Niccolò 2
Panforte, ricciarelli and cantucci made daily on the premises, alongside the salumi and oil of the province.
Via di Città 71-73
Ceramics and nativity figures made as single pieces, since 1979.
Il Campo 28
Metal beaten by hand, copper and wrought iron, with nineteenth-century tools still in use.
Vicolo della Fortuna 33
Sienese ceramics painted by hand, in the black, white and terracotta of the city.
Via di Città 74
Hand-painted ceramics: reproductions of old Sienese painting, contrada colours, the countryside.
Via di Fontebranda 77
Embroidery worked by hand, drawn from medieval Sienese painting.
Via di Città 61
Stained glass since 1987: commissions, restoration, and small courses in cartooning and painting on glass.
Via della Galluzza 5