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Luxury is to do things right

“Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.” (Coco Chanel). High-end crafts synonymous with luxury and lifestyle.

Artisan skills, techniques and technologies, alongside rigorous design and craftsmanship based on deep-rooted links with traditional glass-making, woodworking and leather crafts. These are the principal aspects that define luxury products, turning them into symbols of refinement, elegance, beauty and emotional appeal.

 

Various premium concerns operate in the area of crystal and glassware in Italy and abroad. They include the Blueside Emotional Design project, based on solid artisanal and artistic skills, alongside those in the mechanical, electronic and design areas belonging to the Steroglass brand of which it is a part. All items in the collection are hand made, one by one and feature forms that cannot be created using automatic machines or moulds.

 

“For us, making glass does not only mean creating beautiful objects, it also means coming up with new technological approaches to production so as to give the glassware item additional properties.” This how the sophisticated German brand Eisch presents itself. Its innovative Sensisplus glass turns wine tasting into an even more intense and lasting experience.

 

Tuscany is home to some leading crystal and glass making concerns, some of them grouped together under the Consorzio Centrovetro, in Empoli, created to promote the export of a manufacturing activity that has been carried out in the region since the 15th century. Members include: Same, which makes crystal and glass items entirely by hand, with gold and platinum finishes; Duccio Di Segna, which makes crystal items for leading tableware, gift, lighting and bathroom furnishings companies; Biagi, whose product range combine bronze with hand-applied crystal decorations; and Cre-Art whose decorative crystal items for the home and the dining table are etched or decorated by hand in 24-carat gold.

 

Then, as well as glassware, there are the exquisite silverware items produced by AR Argenteria and the beautifully crafted works by Creazioni Pescarissi Art Decò Firenze, which turn wood into precious religious articles, trays and other objects, infusing each piece with a solemn sense of the antique.

 

A lot of know-how also goes into the production of Vanni Pratesi & Rogai, a well-established Tuscan concern that has been working leather (strictly vegetable-tanned in Italy) for over fifty years with techniques that date back to Renaissance times, when the first leather-making workshops began to appear in Florence.