Florentine design from our studio
Bottega a San Bartolo

Bring the Quality and Beauty of Italian Antique Painted Furniture to your Living Spaces. We are happy to meet the requirements of the most refined tastes.

Through our Florentine studio you can acquire furniture pieces and accessories that have the presence, colour and feel of fine antiques, and improve with time. We use the antique artisan knowledge of the renaissance and only genuine high quality materials like carved solid wood, real gold leaf, earth pigments and waxes to create exceptional furniture objects of refined beauty and genuine museum quality.

We can offer you custom design, colour and a very high level of specialized decorative skill. We are happy to accept custom orders and commissions. We are a small, well equipped workshop with a carefully selected handful of craftspeople, rare to find in our modern world.. The skills of each craft person are well-honed. Our fine arts training and years of experience in the design industry allow us to offer interior designers an artistic interpretation of their clients needs, professionally delivered. Our clients are some of the most discerning professionals in the design and furniture business worldwide. Orders from individual private clients are also welcomed.

Decorative specialties include:
Water gilding, furniture and frame reproduction and restoration, specialized decoration, decorative painting in all styles: grottesca, baroque, rococo, chinoiserie, oriental lacquer, trompe l'oeil, grisaille, quadraturismo, murals, harpsichord decoration including the application of hand printed papers.

Catalogue of our work
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Some examples of our work:

Chest of drawers with chinoiserie decoration on a blue ground with silver gilt	Kitchen cupboard, painted and antiqued	Decorative wall plaque in solid carved wood, gilded and painted.  130cm x 68cm	Yellow Harpsichord 'Jean Bas'
Chest of drawers with chinoiserie, detail	Bedside chests of drawers with chinoiserie decorations	Small solid carved wood panel, gilded and painted, with pomegranate motifs	Yellow Harpsichord 'Jean Bas', detail
Chest of drawers made entirely out of old wood and remnants of an existing 19th century chest of drawers. Painted in Louis 16th style	Detail of the grottesca decoration on an Italian Virginal	Painted panel of a mythological scene inspired by frescoes in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy	Yellow Harpsichord, open
Chest of drawers, old wood, detail	Detail of the grottesca decoration on an Italian Virginal	Soundboard decoration	Italian Virginal

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