Ever since childhood, the curiosity and the desire to do have prompted me to dismantle and understand how things work, break to rebuild. Over time, the destructive impetus has been tamed, and has been replaced by the desire to create. My path to the world of handmade footwear was born by chance. I do not come from a family of craftsmen, but since I was a boy I was educated in elegance, much of the
credit goes to the place where I was born, Italy, home to great artisan realities, which have become big world brands over time. Over the years, several types of study and work experience in Italy and abroad, I have followed a path that finally led me to understand my vocation. The crisis of the company I worked for several years has led me to a crossroads. I chose with my heart and followed the passion. I moved from Rome, my hometown to Florence, to attend a course in shoemaking at the showroom-workshop of Stefano Bemer, one of the greatest Italian shoemaker masters, appreciated all over the world, especially in Japan. Stefano unfortunately left us a few years ago, I learned from the masters trained by him, who taught me the method of making goodyear footwear entirely by hand. The method I learned has been refined over more than thirty years of activity, and it is foreseen that every single operation is done entirely by hand; from the realization of the inner sole, to the creation of the string for the seaming of the welt, consisting of five heads of roasted and rolled h**p. The end result is a shoe made with completely natural materials (leather on leather) that make the shoe resistant (Goodyear have the greater longevity) but at the same time allow the foot to breathe. Along with the ready-to-wear shoe, I also learned tailored shoes. After having the customer's feet measures transferred to a wooden shape, by adding and removing the volume as needed, the upper (top of the shoe) is mounted and sewn on the customer's shape. The end result is a shoe that fits perfectly to the foot, which cannot be replicated with a ready to wear product on the market. Making this type of footwear takes a long time, over 70 hours of work, from foot measurement, shape modification to manual shoe making. All of this makes the product unique, of great personal value and comparable to a work of art.