An Italian house, born in Tuscany.
Making pieces a room is built around.
In Tuscany, a home is never just a place to live.
It is where the day slows down. Where the table stays set long after dinner, where doors stay open to the evening air, where every room carries the memory of the people who lived in it.
We were born from that way of living. Our house believes that beauty belongs to everyday life, not to special occasions. That a home should feel warm before it feels impressive. That the right light, at the right hour, can change the way a family gathers.
The Tuscans have a word for the art of taking time: lentezza. It is not idleness. It is the patience of a craftsman, the attention of a host, the quiet confidence of a place that has nothing to prove. This is the spirit we bring to everything we create.
We design for people who see their home as a reflection of how they want to live. Unhurried. Generous. Rooted.
Benvenuti a casa.
Leo Wehrli / ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, 1932. CC BY-SA 4.0
Il blocco
The material
A block is read before it is cut, for the way its vein runs and for where that vein will fall once the form has been taken out of it.
It is the oldest way of working stone, and it has not changed, because the material does not permit it to.
The veining in each piece exists nowhere else.
Marble polishing works, Querceta, Carrara, 1932. Leo Wehrli / ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, CC BY-SA 4.0
La subbia, la gradina
The work
The block is turned on a lathe against a fixed tool, under running water. The subbia, the pointed chisel, removes some eighty-five per cent of the material and halts two centimetres short of the finished surface. The gradina, the toothed chisel, draws parallel lines like raked gravel.
The surface is then worked through successive grits until it ceases to reflect and begins to absorb. Polished stone looks wet. Honed stone looks like stone, and the house stops there.
Leo Wehrli / ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, 1932. CC BY-SA 4.0
Stone darkens very slightly where it is touched most.
Brass goes brown at the thumb before it goes brown anywhere else. Linen softens. A piece made this way looks used after ten years rather than finished.
It is the only way an object earns a mark worth keeping.
Rucellini. Born in Tuscany, made to be kept.