Crepin also became one of the first and most admired official marine painters of the early 19th century, with an atelier within the Ministry of the Navy and Colonies in Paris.

Arthur Augustus Dixon was born in St. Pancras in 1872.

Here, Paolo Zoli in 1919, he opened the La Faience ceramic factory in Borgo Durbecco with Pietro Melandri, Dino Fabbri, and Amerigo Masotti.

Emilio Robba, nicknamed the floral sculptor

Alt was a German painter specializing in landscapes and architectural paintings and an admired lithographer.

A short biography of the artist Dusan Dzamonja (Strumica 1928- Zagreb 2009)
one of the most important conceptual artists in the world.

The Adam-Design museum in Brussels dedicated an exhibition to him: Peter Ghyczy: 50 Years of Functionalism, curated by Kunty Moureau.

Gérard Diaz

Despite being originally from Rome, Luigi Polverini can be counted amongst the  follower of the prestigious Tuscan post Macchiaioli art movement.

Yoshi Takata photographer for Pierre Cardin

Maison Baguès remains, for many decorators, a synonym of elegance and a pledge of excellence.

His landscapes are of real sensitivity; you can find several in the museums of Rome and Budapest

The company Cavatorta was set up in Rome in 1869, and has remained a family-owned business specializing in the production of exclusive furniture

Cenedese is known for the “Sommerso” and “Acquari” techniques

The glasses of Giorgio Berlini

Maison Jansen was founded in 1880 in Paris by Dutch-born Jean-Henry Jansen. It was located in Rue Royale

In 1958, the Maison Morabito created the Orsay bag for Marilyn Monroe to use as a travel bag.

The Klavdij Sluban’s pictures

In 1997 Tommaso Cimini died in an airplane crash, leaving the company in the hands of Ermanno Prosperi.

Della Robbia ceramics

Rurik was immersed in an artistic milieu from childhood. His father was Pierre Dmitrienko, a famous painter of Russian origin.

Each sunset is a day in our past lives that will never return. And at every sunset I ask myself: "What good have you done today, Antoniette?" Antonietta Raphaël

Guglielmo Pugi, a prominent Italian artist. His studio was in Florence were he worked with his sons Gino e Florenzo

Andy Warhol, the great American artist of 1960s Pop Art.

Gio Ponti the great Italian eclectic genius

Carlo Nason born in Murano in 1935. He grew up spending time with master glass-workers in the family furnace.

A Roman-school painter, Zingarini was born in Rome on January 30, 1878, and died there on November 5, 1944

His first official accolade as an artist came in 1953 when he won the Faenza Prize in the 11th National Ceramic Competition.

It was the first time I had ardently endeavoured to study from life harmonising the light and the colour of the background with the figure.

Willy Zügel was an animal sculptor, modeler, and designer for leading German porcelain manufacturers.

Refinement, creativity, managerial skills, qualities featured by  outstanding Roman design studio Vivai del Sud

Katy Castellucci (1905-1985) was an Italian artist.
She showed at the Galleria della Cometa with Adriana Pincherle

Born in Rome in 1938, Enrico Benaglia trained in the company of the artists of the French Academy in Villa Medici and on Via Margutta.

She was “the Pasquarosa phenomenon,” as the critic and painter Cipriano Efisio Oppo called her in 1918.

Umberto Giunti (1886–1970) a student and follower of Icilio Federico Joni was a key player in the surge in forgeries around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Angelo Mangiarotti

Roy Fox Lichtenstein big artist of American Pop Art

Eero Saarinen (Kirkkonummi 1910 - 1961) Great 1950s Scandinavian designer

At the suggestion of Gio Ponti, Luigi Fontana began to devote part of his activity to the creation of furniture and objets d'art.

Mauro Stampatori (1948-2014) was a Roman painter and an architect.

Francesco Ferraresi was born in Rome in February 1858, where he lived and died in Via Margutta 33.

Meret Oppenheim International Designer

Francesco Paolo Michetti, (Tocco di Casauria 1851 - Francavilla 1929), was one of the most important Italian artists at the turn of the century.

In 1767, Louis XV transformed the Vetreria Münzthal renaming it  Verrerie Royale de Saint Louis.

Charles Napier Kennedy was distinguished by his mythological painting.

Kaare Klint Scandinavian Designer

ISA Bergamo produced a series of striking models designed by Gio Ponti and by Ico and Luisa Parisi

"He enjoyed observing peasants’ behavior and studied how they drank, ate, danced, fought, and even made love."

Werner Gilles (1894-1961) was born in Rheydt near Mönchengladbach.

René Lalique the Art of Glass

The figure of Carlo Carrà, the journeys, the exhibitions, the encounters that changed the history of art.

The Flos brand started in 1959, founded by Dino Gavina (1922-2007) and Cesare Cassina (1909-1979).

Alberto Ricci was a Roman artist.
He specialized in figurave sculpture with particular interest in the study of movement.

While his work started off Impressionist, over time it became more like that of the Macchiaioli.
He also devoted himself to sculpture.

Pincherle was the older sister of writer Alberto Moravia. When her work debuted in 1931, she immediately drew the attention of critic Roberto Longhi.

This blossomed into the Neoliberty movement, which Aulenti took up in opposition to rationalism.

The scandinavian design Thor Larsen

Internationally renowned artist, he has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and various galleries in Europe.

Yasse Tabuchi modern Japanese artist

Giuseppe Capogrossi great Italian abstract artist of the early 1900s

Huÿch Allardt was an important draughtsman, engraver and publisher.

Very often Mascagni's furniture is completely covered in polyvinyl resins better known as PVC and engraved glass.

Domenico Ico Parisi was born in Palermo in 1916 and died in Como in 1996. He was an internationally renowned Italian architect and designer.

Jacob (or Jacques) de Backer was a great Flemish painter of mythological subjects and religious scenes

Romeo Rega prestigious Roman designer from 1970s

The biography of Antoine-Louis Barye (Paris 1795 -1875) a famous French sculptor of animals.

Rudolf Swoboda the Younger was a great Viennese artist who lived between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Luciano Ventrone the Caravaggio of the 20th century

The critic Paolo Stivani described him as "an illusionist and affabulator of images".

The Grue family, a great dynasty of ceramic artists

Claudio Verna was born in Guardiagrele, in the province of Chieti, Italy, in 1937.

Founded in Naples in 1760 by Nicola Giustiniani of Cerreto, in the early days produced cream-colored pottery and majolica

Luigi Lanzi called him “…universal painter, very speedy in his work, ferocious in his inventions…” in History of painting in Italy from the Risorgimento of the Fine Arts until the late 18th century]

He is the creator of the Supercortemaggiorefor the famous Italian gas company ENI, the "Six-legged dog," presented in a special competition in 1952.

French art was deeply influenced by three wars during the 19th century, and the artistic imagination was not lost upon the public.

Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) was an ambassador of Italian design in the world and won nine Compassi d'Oro awards.

The success of the Bongiovanni Vaccaro-workshop was a driving force for other craftsmen who, during the nineteenth Century, specialized in this particular subjects that were ‘the only singular and heartfelt manifestation of art that Caltagirone ceramics offers us in the second half of the XIX century’

Pieces designed by Carlo Bartoli are shown at the Milan Triennale, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Stadtmuseum in Cologne, as well as in New York, Prague, Hong Kong, Athens, and Buenos Aires.

Over the years, Matteo Grassi has worked with an impressive array of designers, the likes of Carlo Bartoli, Piero Lissoni, Alessandro Mendini, Franco Poli, Eoos, Luigi Massoni, Jean Nouvel, Matteo Nunziati, Mauro Lipparini, and Rodolfo Dordoni.

PIo is the son of the famous sculptor Giacomo Manzù (1908–1991)