Italy · Woodworking / Furniture
Mobili Intagliati Valdostani / Sculptures sur Bois Valdotains
A tradition of carved wooden furniture from the Valle d'Aosta — Italy's smallest and most culturally distinct region, with Franco-Provençal language and Alpine identity — producing chests (coffres), cupboards (armoires), and decorative panels with geometric carved motifs derived from Alpine folk art, Roman influence, and the distinctive star-and-interlace patterns of Aosta's medieval heritage.
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The hand-carving of pietra leccese, a fine-grained golden limestone unique to a small area of the Salento peninsula in Puglia, quarried from Miocene-era marine sediment rich in calcium carbonate and microfossils — a stone so soft when…
The hand-thrown and hand-painted pottery of Grottaglie, in Puglia's Taranto province, produced across two historically distinct traditions — caposanara (or ruagnara), utilitarian ware such as amphorae, kitchen vessels, and giant…
The weaving of baskets, mats, and household containers in Puglia's Salento peninsula from olive-tree twigs and rushes (giunco) — materials so abundant that most modern olive-pruning waste is now simply burned rather than woven — in which…
Fine filigree in pure silver and sometimes gold, made in Cortina d'Ampezzo from the 18th century and at its finest in the 1890s.
Hand-forged decorative ironwork made in the Ampezzo valley for alpine residences, hotels, shops and museums: gates, railings, stair balustrades, window grilles, doors, fireplace hoods, lamps, locks, hardware and furniture.
A contemporary Italian jewelry-making method developed by Marcella Stilo under the Cartalana name: recovered paper is hand-spun using a spindle into a workable fiber-like material, then formed into lightweight jewelry and combined where…
The uni (уни) are the bent roof poles that radiate from the toono crown wheel to the top of the khana lattice wall, forming the conical roof structure of the ger.
The Aché people, forest-dwelling hunter-gatherers of eastern Paraguay, make traditional wooden hunting bows whose craftsmanship has drawn specific international recognition among traditional-archery specialists.
The hand carving and painting of mahjong tiles.
The carving and painted finishing of devotional processional figures (imaginária) in the Beira Alta region — wooden religious sculptures of saints and biblical scenes carried in Holy Week and patron-saint festival processions throughout…
Mario Cecilio Duarte Lilito, Concepción's most experienced craftsman at 64, dazzled visitors at the city's Expo Norte fair with embossed (repujado) leather and wood pieces, each shaped to serve a specific practical, utilitarian purpose…
A lathe-turned, hand-painted lacquerware tradition of the Nizhny Novgorod region, first appearing in the second half of the 17th century, in which linden wood tableware is coated in a metallic tin or aluminum ground, freehand-painted with…