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Colors and decorations are the protagonists of Antonio Malleo and Licia Rossi's Cromaticamente studio, specialized in wall paintings such as Trompe l'oeil, genre painting, art copies, remakes, copies from antiques, finishes, artistic lamps and lampshades, necklaces and furnishing accessories, paintings and decorative panels, screens.
The Farm La Spora for generations collects fresh Abruzzo truffles from the woods around the river Sangro, between Abruzzo and Molise, always a generous source of this precious tuber. Fresh truffles are rare and precious, they are the best that the wise alchemy of soil, climate and vegetation can create.
The farm Le Selve di Monate is reached by taking a dirt road, which crosses a forest of robinia, chestnut trees and hundreds of colorful hydrangeas. A trip aboard a pick-up with Luca and his son Giacomo, who take me to a place surrounded by nature, where the Franzetti family decided to dedicate their lives to the production of peaches, those of Monate.
There is a figure of a tutelary number in Palermo, complementary to that of Santa Rosalia. It is the Genius of Palermo, depicted as a mature man with a split beard, crowned and embraced by a snake that feeds on his chest. The Beer of the Genius is dedicated to this mythological figure, produced in the eponymous brewery in the heart of the Bonagia district.
Not far from the historic centre of Ivrea, hidden among the houses, is the Rabèl brewery. Daniele and Davide, who have been friends and colleagues since 2012, opened the doors of their Taproom, a place where you can feel the scents and aromas of the beers they produce from the very first moment.
A place where everything smells good. This was able to do Antonino Azzarello, responsible for the company Aroma di Mascarella, in the homonymous district of Caccamo, near Palermo. With a very precise vision, he was able to transform a stony country soil in a place where, besides planting the classic olive or almond trees, he was able to sow and make fertile ten medicinal plants
Riccardo, one of the partners of the company 25k gin, told us how from exotic scents of travel with his partner Simone, first the idea was born and then the 25k gin. A juniper distillate left in infusion with licorice, anise, lemon peel and made unique and special with the addition of 24k gold.
The historic Baschirotto Beekeeping produces for over 40 years many varieties of honey, including energy honey, as well as grappa and liqueurs. Founded in 1981 by the grandfather of the current owner, the company is very concerned about the health and well-being of its bees.
In the territory of Legnano stands out the Legnano brewery, an important brand within the Made in Italy, with a production of about 160,000 liters per year. A firm established over time that has been able to combine product quality, experimentation and commercial development with a group of determined and brilliant young people who have built ideas that have become styles.
The concept of agritourism in Sicily is a total immersion in a world where nature, culture and gastronomy blend in perfect harmony. What happens here at the Santa Margherita is thanks to the Mollica family and Claudia, always smiling and helpful with customers and tourists who choose the Santa Margherita for their holidays in Sicily. She is the one who accompanies us on our fantastic tour among the citrus trees and animals of the educational farm.
Castiglione Olona is a small town near Varese and right here, in total contrast, stands Albore, a studio where through the most innovative technologies are designed and produced design lamps. Albore is the reflection and innovative, brilliant and green expression of its two young founders, Jacopo and Mirko, creative and visionary designers.
In 1948 Vittorio Siniscalchi opens the Maison Siniscalchi, one of the only six shirts in Milan at that time, which is still alive and vital thanks to the imagination, skill and experience of his son Alessandro and Cinzia, the brilliant wife of Alessandro, The organisation and communication of the event.
From this shop, "di terra e di fuoco", in via del Quattro Aprile in Palermo, even Mick Jagger passed. It is the most beautiful memory to date of Lavinia Sposito, who spends her days here working on the terracotta and turning it into splendid ceramic works.
In Sicily it happens that men give olives to women, even when they are old, as a sign of life and prosperity. And this is where Giovanni acts. Olives are his love, his family, his consolidation with the earth.
Collettivo 22 was founded in 2019. It is a craft place where me and Eleonora, a designer and architect, have been able to create unique products. We met inside a place where to bring out your own ability, do your own, use your hands and grow your creativity
Founded in 2009, Negozio Leggero aims to reduce waste and promote responsible consumption. With over 1500 products available, from groceries to personal and home hygiene products, the store offers a wide range of items sold in bulk or with the vacuum system to return.
In the workshop, master glassmaker Ballanti also considers every stage of the glass work is important, whose beauty comes from the fusion of purely formal values, such as the originality of the design or linear synthesis, and from an execution careful and skilful technique, as well as the quality of the material used: glass.
Monza, cultural and sporting jewel of the province of Brianza, gives the birthplace of Torrefazione Cafe' Tropical, a small family business, which stands out for its unmistakable aroma of roasted coffee and its passionate history.
In the heart of Upper Piedmont, on the banks of the picturesque Lake Orta, an excellence of Italian artisan chocolate is born: Audere. Diego told us the story of Audere, their production philosophy and future projects that continue to innovate the world of handmade chocolate (and not only).
The objective of our company is to recover and preserve local biodiversity. We have given life and revived from extinction a series of local ecotypes that were once cultivated in this area. For twelve years - indeed even more - we have been collecting the seeds, in particular the seeds of the curly tomato. We grow it in dry culture, that is without water, giving it a very sweet taste.
A real little gem, the one located in via San Gaetano in Livorno. Yes, because it is here that Cristina Piombanti, now about thirty years ago, opened its own Art Laboratory, where small masterpieces in ceramic, wood and fabric are made in the name of Made in Italy.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the tasty and delicious dough from which the Piedmont gianduiotti are derived. This ancient tradition is carried on today by master chocolatiers, such as Luca Bellesio, in Lenì (TO), where the gianduiotti are cut and wrapped by hand.
In Sicily, the company adventure of Nicoletta, Giorgio and Giuseppe Scimeca, a sister and two brothers who founded together the eponymous pastry shop of Caccamo, from where dozens and dozens of packets of cookies start every day, packs of almond paste and much more. A company that has never forgotten its origins and which has chosen to carry on the social sense of pastry.
Giuseppe Lisciandrello is an entrepreneur who, after having managed two wine shops for years, has decided, supported by his partner and administrator Luciano Tocco, to produce wine himself in a farm and winery in San Cipirrello, where everything tastes of wine and where the landscape takes your breath away for the emotion it causes.
Farmer, winegrower, producer, wine master and wine connoisseur. He still does not know how to define himself, at almost 45 years old, Gaspare Triolo, who today manages, supported by the family, the Terra di Gratia, a company that produces wines in the countryside of Corleone and where American tourists meet to observe and taste Sicily.
From Giuseppe is born the story of U Barunieddu, a center for the production of not only jams practically made on the spot, but also creams of "sfincione", "peperonate", cream of "caponata" and everything that, starting from simple ingredients, can be spread on bread.
The noise of a sewing machine and the time that passes slowly, even if it always seems to escape from the hands and never be enough, this is what you experience at Sartoria NM. Nadia Mottinelli’s tailoring is a colourful world, made of cotton bobbins, needles, sewing machines and creative ideas.
This is the story of La Dolceria - The secrets of the cloister, inside the monastery of Santa Caterina in piazza Bellini in Palermo, whose activity was resumed in 2017 with the aim of enhancing the conventual confectionery of Sicily. Cannoli, biscuits and cakes that have become the centerpiece of tourism in the city, with hundreds of tourists, but also Palermitani willing to make long lines to taste the flavors of the past.
A life made of milk. Since childhood. To choose the best one for making mozzarella, or pecorino cheese or caciocavallo or "vestedda" or ricotta. «Because every milk has its cheese and every cheese has its milk». This is the daily mantra that accompanies since the first light of dawn Angelo Serra, owner of the Dairy Farm Face of Caciocavallo
An Indiana Jones with the same passion for archaeology, but associated with honey. Could be called so Carlo Amodeo, responsible and founder of the homonymous company of beekeeping in Madonna Diana district, a hill overlooking the high Termini Imerese and where you can admire the entire gulf of Palermo.
My name is Angelo Bocchieri and I am a Shoemaker. I am part of a shoemaker family: my grandfather was a shoemaker, my father was a shoemaker too and my mother was a watchmaker.
In the name of bread. And in the name of his great-grandparents, grandfather and father, from whom he inherited an inheritance that is more than 100 years old. It’s a life of "chosen" that of Maurizio Valenti, current owner of the Antica forno Valenti in via Francesco Aguglia in Bagheria. Not just any bakery, but one of the few places that preserves the ancient recipe for the sfincione bagherese, symbol of street food in the world.
Pommes de Claire is a small atelier of sustainable women’s clothing and tailored wedged in the maze of alleys of the historic center of Mantua, just steps from the shores of the lake. Here, Chiara Salvioli, under the careful supervision of her cat Lilla, designs and sews clothes and accessories from fabrics recovered from the industrial production of high fashion.
Giorgia Ghetti is the founder of Koikoi, and was a marketing consultant in Milan, with a strong and well-defined academic and cultural background. Since January 2024, Giorgia has realized her dream, opening her own workshop in via Girolamo Rossi in Ravenna. A small atelier where she creates beautiful and unique pieces of clothing, for both women and children, with enthusiasm and passion.
The smell of craftsmanship has been in the air for generations at the Casa del Rame. Up there, on the railing of the last balcony, the mark left by grandparents Peter and Mary, who with inspiration thought of hanging copper utensils. The teachings handed down continue to be seeds that bear fruit because Casa del Rame is first and foremost family. A large family that includes and welcomes those who have been working side by side with the Mostarda craftsmen for years.
Shaping clay, bending steel, defining bodies between the borders of black and white: these are just some of the processes by which Yama Art becomes a place of art and encounter. Place of meditation, of a happy to meet inside and outside. Now we enter the world of Maia
Today we discover the company Liquoristica ligure that for years has been working in the world of beverage with passion and seriousness. We are welcomed by Andrea Vacca and Andrea Falzone who tell us three of their new creations.
In a small street in the historic center of Forlì, Federica Siboni's dream was born: Fedifo, an artisan boutique, a recovery and redevelopment laboratory and an exhibition space in continuous evolution. Fedifo was born almost by chance, when Federica meets the right place at the right time and from there she will be able to experiment and perfect new garments and accessories, creating unique pieces thanks to recycled materials or the discarded clothes of her customers.
The logo of Amaro Guelfo is a lion's face: and it could not have been otherwise, since his is a family history that ends up embracing, thanks to a liqueur, that of Brescia, the Lioness of Italy, and its people who have the name of grumpy with a big heart.
enuta Santa Lucia is in a panoramic position as the Tiber Valley is dominated by Mount Soratte: green hills stretch together with lush vineyards. We are in Poggio Mirteto, in the province of Rieti, a stone's throw from Rome. Since 1979 the Colantuono family has believed in the goodness of Sabine wine. The Santa Lucia Estate extends over 45 hectares that have proved to be excellent for the production of different types of high quality wine: Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Cabernet, Alicante, Carignano, Falanghina, Sauvignon, Malvasia.
In Milan, where everything runs and nothing seems to stop, some "artisan islands" survive where the work is organized as it once was, the workers are master craftsmen and the owner is one of them. This is the case of the leather company Alfredo Beretta, which since 1947 has been working with the same manual skills and passion as before. Bags, trunks, suitcases, shoes, belts, wallets and leather clothing are the items that have brought the name Alfredo Beretta in the world.
In 2013, Birrificio Marduk, located in the village of Irgoli in Sardinia, turned an inspiring dream into a confirmed reality: establishing a beer production chain. The Marduk project was born from the idea of two friends who, after 5 years of homebrewing, decided to take the plunge and open a professional brewery.
Camiceria Bazzocchi is a historic shop in Rome, housed in the historic center of the city, a stone's throw from Piazza Barberini. The shirt shop was founded by Roberto Bazzocchi in 1907 as an artisan workshop where tailor-made shirts were made by hand, without neglecting the precious sale of accessories capable of enhancing masculine elegance.
Elegant and familiar, modern and traditional, trendy and original. These definitions, although in contrast with each other, are representative of the dual soul of Arago Design, a physical and ideal place, where design research meets tradition to create unique pieces of craftsmanship.
Our Bees are back in the historic center of Genoa, precisely in San Donato, a portion of the city old rich in history and tradition. Here we find My Golden Age, an artisan activity where we find Luca, ready to tell us about his world.
My name is Angelo Bocchieri and I am a Shoemaker. I am part of a shoemaker family: my grandfather was a shoemaker, my father was a shoemaker too and my mother was a watchmaker.
In Florence, in Via del Leone, behind Palazzo Vecchio, lives the tiny workshop of Jamie Marie Lazzara. The American luthier, of Italian origin, studied in Italy from a very young age, first as a restorer in Florence, learning the techniques of working with materials, and then at the well-known violin making school in Cremona.
In Ollomont, a small town in the Aosta Valley located at 1,335 meters above sea level in the Valpelline area, an ambitious project was born that embraces the art, craftsmanship and culture of the area: it is Casa Alpina, a reality that combines carpentry, art exhibitions and mountain antiques.
Il Presidente di F.Agr.I., Gianfranco Grieci, incontra Amine Laghidi, Esperto internazionale e presidente di diverse organizzazioni e comitati marocchini, africani e internazionali
The passion for craft beer often leads to the development of one's own recipes and jealously guarding them, but the brewer and owner of the brewery Rose 55 Pierluigi is not like that. Rose 55 is his brewery that allows anyone to make their own beer but in a real professional workshop. The brewery is located in Cagliari with a very clear mission: in addition to its own production, it wants to bring as many realities as possible to produce within it.
Bees buzz near the flowers and this time we perched on potatoes. Not only potatoes in Stefano Adamo's Voilà Boutique, in Alliste in Puglia. Voilà is the anagram of olive, in fact, Stefano is a producer of oil, potatoes, gin and even vodka. A likeable, as well as decisive, entrepreneur who combines marketing and artisanal production.
Whenever one thinks of a loom, Penelope always comes to mind weaving her web waiting for Ulysses to return. Well, Laura doesn't remind us of Penelope. She has turned her time into art and from her hands, a bit like she tells us, music comes out. Laura is a textile designer with a passion for the practice of weaving.
Materia is a coloured window in the centre of Rezzato, in the province of Brescia. Inside, under two beautiful seventeenth-century vaults, there is a forest of plants, colorful flowers, vases with the strangest shapes, garlands, vintage furniture.
In northern Sardinia, a craftswoman with her modern Sardinian clothing managed to cross the sea, reaching the Japanese market. We’re talking about Barbara Pala. Born in Nuoro, Barbara has studied thoroughly the world of fashion, putting her hands to work and achieving something that once seemed impossible.
Today the bees are back in the center of Genoa, in Via Cesarea. Here we meet Alessandro, creator and owner of Billi Pane dell'Anno Mille, a place where tradition is founded with progress and innovation, where bread is baked in wood and the scent is intoxicated in the air.
The one created by Fiorella Carone and Gabriele Giustiniani with their daughter Giulia is much more than a family: it is a solid business that ranges at three hundred and sixty degrees in the world of ceramics. The workshop in Via Bruno Buozzi, in the center of Genzano di Roma, was created by Fiorella and Gabriele more than twenty-five years ago and does not cease to be an evolving creature.