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Giulia is young and her enthusiasm for what she does is a breath of fresh air. Fresh like the one that blows from the sea on Santa Margherita Ligure where Giulia's shop, where we met her, is also a laboratory and anyone, upon entering, can see her at work modeling wax and putting a little of that sea even inside some of her candles.
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
Walking through the San Frediano district, a small shop with a curious name catches the eye: Nokike. The owner is the artisan Herika Signorino who, in love with Tuscany, moved from a big city to the small Florentine district when she was only twenty-one years old. The highlight is jewelry, but Herika loves to experiment by being inspired by places, natural elements, artists and literature. Strengthened by the collaboration with other artisans, Nokike – in addition to attracting tourists and passers-by - It is a point of reference for a loyal clientele.
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.
Antonella and her husband Gianpaolo live in a world made of old and colorful objects, fabrics, boxes, cutlery: all things that tell a story and that somehow evoke a memory. All things that could rekindle, almost unintentionally, a part of us that we keep inside. After all, this is the power of objects and it is also the power of the collection of dishes "Lunch at grandma's".
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.
The Opificio Lauchli is a project wanted by Antonella Gnetti. It is a creative laboratory where creations with an artisanal and sartorial cut are made only after a careful analysis of the space in which they will be housed, without neglecting the practical and aesthetic needs of the customer. The choice of materials, textures and colours ignites the realization of the project.
Elena Balsamini is a passionate researcher of stories and wisdom of the past, who received as a gift from her father an interest in a tradition that, day after day, is being lost: Romagna rust printing.
Ruga, the shop-workshop of the goldsmith Stefano Billi, is located in Ravenna, in via Mazzini 31, in the historic center of the city. It is a place where jewels have an unconventional soul and are the result of the training and maturation of the thought of its creator. At the base of Stefano's creations there is, in fact, a positive reflection, addressed to each of us: beauty is found in imperfection. An imperfection that, in his marvellous works of goldsmithing, becomes value, accuracy and uniqueness.
A tiny space, but one that warms the heart and delights the palate. I Cioccolatini di Gio is a little hidden treasure behind Via Trento in Brescia, just a few steps from the city center. Inside, Giovanna Fonda, creator of the brand and of everything edible found in her shop-laboratory, makes - strictly by hand - chocolates and chocolate creations, jams and compotes.
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.
Behind every item of clothing, dozens of other possible garments and objects lie hidden; you just need to envision and create them. Ramosalso, an atelier located in the Rialto area of Venice, has made this its mission: ‘If you transform, you don’t waste.’
Surrounded by nature, today we are in the small town of Carpegna in the Marche hinterland, to meet Emanuele Francioni of Antica Stamperia Carpegna, who will tell us about his family business.
Our bees flew over the hills of Pietra Ligure to meet their "friends" bees that, industrious, create quality Ligurian honey at the beekeeping Calcagno Giacomo. Here, among olive trees and dry stone walls, we find their colorful beehives kept by Giacomo, a young beekeeper who illustrates his activity.
Since 2013, the Stefano Facioni company has been involved in the implementation of a project with Senatore Cappelli ancient wheat. Since 2015 Stefano Facioni has been working only with products such as pasta and flour certified organic and strictly 100% Made in Italy.
Inspired by the entrepreneurial intuition of Rolando Germani, the Collina d'Oro farm was founded in Colverde, in the province of Como, with the ambition of bringing Lombard saffron to the Italian and foreign markets. Versatile and rich in important properties for the body, saffron is the main ingredient of many Italian recipes and makes the difference in the preparation of the most refined and original menus.
At night Cinzia dreams of the colors and shapes of the clothes she would like to make, and during the day she creates them. "Lacibi" is his shop and tailoring workshop in Pordenone where colors and fabrics reign supreme. The passion of Cinzia and her staff is to dress women and to deliver them accessories and handcrafted garments, often made with advanced materials of high quality productions.
Francesca Fontana is a Bolognese designer of bridal accessories, who has been working in this field for years with passion and dedication. Over time, she has also experimented with other production techniques in different areas of design and craftsmanship, such as in the creation of jewelry, hats in natural fibers, colorful shoes for all seasons and in the decoction of fabrics.
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.
The reality created by Nunzia Laura in the heart of the city of Naples combines the goldsmith's art with legend, mythology and archaic roots. "Nymphè archaeology and jewels" is a constant search for new design and collaboration with experts, to project the idea into the future and talk about history from a new and original point of view.
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.
Paola Mastrofini works with different varieties of glass, without forgetting the many colors that allow her to create stained glass windows and light sculptures. Heir to ancient workmanship that is difficult to pass on, Paola Mastrofini is the interpreter and continuator of this craftsmanship. In her workshop she excitedly recounts her love for the art of glass, without forgetting the extraordinary beauty of the colours that run through glass: the play of light and the exaltation of colours.