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Marbled papers in Florence, a working letterpress in Milan, antiquarian maps in Turin: Italian book craft keeps its old machines running. Giulio Giannini e Figlio binds books by hand in the sixth generation, Florence since 1856. Fratelli Bonvini keeps a working 1909 Milan letterpress shop and bookbindery with original presses. Libreria Antiquaria Bourlot holds the antiquarian line in Turin with maps and manuscripts and rare books. A binding that opens flat will outlive the marbling on its cover.
Puglia (bari area) / Italy
Romanazzi 1930 is a bespoke tailoring house in Turi, Puglia, crafting made-to-measure suits, wedding and ceremony wear from fabrics by Zegna, Holland & Sherry and Drago. Clients book fittings at the Via XX Settembre showroom, where the atelier guides each order from fabric selection through final tailoring.
Best for Bespoke tailoring, made-to-measure suits, wedding wear
Florence / Online
Founded by publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, who released Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago in 1957 ahead of any other country; the bookshop chain opened its first store in Pisa that same year.
Best for Italian books and music floors.
The Feltrinelli name traces to Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, who established his publishing house, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, in Milan at the end of 1954 as an explicitly antifascist imprint. In late 1956, an Italian journalist brought him the manuscript of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, smuggled out of the Soviet Union; Feltrinelli published it in 1957, publishing the novel in 1957 ahead of editions in both the United States and France, and the book became an international bestseller. The same year, Feltrinelli opened his first bookshop in Pisa, the beginning of what grew into Italy's largest bookstore chain, still operating under his name today. He also published Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard. Feltrinelli died in 1972 under still-disputed circumstances involving an explosion near a Milan pylon. The bookshop chain that carries his name today spans locations across Italy, including this store, and continues the general-interest bookselling model he founded alongside the original publishing house.
Florence / Oltrarno / Online
Sixth-generation Florentine bookbindery founded in 1856, on Via dei Velluti next to Piazza Pitti in the Oltrarno district. Hand-decorates marbled papers and binds leather books, journals and photo albums, and has been featured by The Times, House & Garden and Conde Nast Traveller.
Best for Sixth-generation hand-bound books and marbled paper, Florence since 1856
Giulio Giannini e Figlio has occupied the same corner of the Oltrarno, steps from the Pitti Palace on Via dei Velluti, since the workshop was founded in 1856. It is now run by the sixth generation of the Giannini family, who trained in the same hand techniques -- marbling paper by hand and binding leather covers -- that the founder practiced when the neighborhood was still Florence's working artisan quarter.
The bottega produces marbled and hand-decorated papers, leather-bound journals and books, photo albums, greeting cards and personalized stationery, and also runs workshops teaching the traditional bookbinding and marbling techniques the shop still uses in production. The Oltrarno has long been Florence's district of craft workshops -- framers, goldsmiths, restorers -- and Giannini's survival across six generations in the same trade, on the same street, is itself part of what the shop is known for.
The workshop's work has drawn coverage from The Times, House & Garden, AD Magazine, Conde Nast Traveller and Corriere della Sera, press attention that has followed the family's reputation as one of the city's longest-running artisan bookbinders rather than any single product launch.
Florence / Online
Mondadori stores sell books, stationery and media across Italy.
Best for Bestsellers and stationery.
Lucca / Italy
Pasticceria Taddeucci has stood on Lucca's Piazza San Michele since 1881, its Antico Buccellato earning a place in Mimi Sheraton's book of foods to eat before dying. It also sells Lucchese cookies, seasonal panettone and pandoro, and runs a hands-on baking experience.
Best for Historic Buccellato since 1881
Pasticceria Taddeucci has operated on Lucca's Piazza San Michele since 1881, putting it at roughly 145 years in the same square. Its signature is the Buccellato, an aniseed-and-raisin ring loaf associated with the city, sold alongside PanPuccini and a range of Tuscan cookies — pistachio biscuits, cantuccini, ricciarelli, pinolate.
The bakery's own account of its history includes a notable outside endorsement: New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton featured the shop's "Antico Buccellato" in her book of foods to eat before dying, and the Taddeucci family has also hosted Prince Charles as a visitor. Seasonal production extends to panettone, pandoro and colomba, including cherry-chocolate and fig-walnut variants, plus tortes, chocolates, pralines and liqueurs sold from the same shop.
For visitors who want more than a purchase, the bakery runs "Taddeucci for a Day," a hands-on session preparing Buccellato and fresh pasta with the family. Between the recipe's age, the shop's unchanged location and a running list of visitors it's fed, the business leans on continuity as its main credential — the same square, the same ring-shaped loaf, for nearly a century and a half.
Milan / Online
Carla Sozzani's pioneering concept universe — fashion, art, books, and the courtyard café that invented the genre. Established 1991.
Best for Curated fashion-art-design discovery.
Founded in Milan in 1991, 10 Corso Como brought fashion and design retail together with an art-and-photography gallery, bookshop and courtyard café in a former garage at Corso Como 10. The house describes the format as a “living magazine”: the reason to visit is the relationship between the fashion edit, books, exhibitions, design objects and café rather than any single label. Allow time to move between the different spaces instead of treating it as a conventional boutique; that cross-category curation is the point of the original Milan address.
Milan / Online
Italian leather goods brand launched in 1991 by designer Alviero Martini, built around his geo map print inspired by an antique map he found in a Moscow bookshop in the mid-1980s; flagship stores in Milan and Rome.
Best for Map-print travel bags.
Alviero Martini 1a Classe was founded in 1991 by Italian designer Alviero Martini, born in 1950. The brand's signature - a print reproducing the look of an antique world map - traces to an object Martini found while working in Moscow around 1986-87: an old map he bought in a bookstore there and brought back to Rome. That geo map print became the house's identifying design language and the basis for its 'Geo Collection' of bags and travel goods. The company describes itself as an Italian leather-accessories house built specifically around that map motif, with two flagship stores in Milan and Rome.
Milano / Via Bonvini
Milan stationery-printing shop opened 9 July 1909 by brothers Costante and Luigia Bonvini in the Corso Lodi/San Luigi district, and restored to working order in 2014 with its original treadle press, 1930s Imperia platen press and wooden type drawers intact. Today it operates as a working letterpress and bookbindery, running typography and traditional paper workshops.
Best for Working 1909 Milan letterpress shop and bookbindery with original presses
Fratelli Bonvini opened as a stationery shop on 9 July 1909, when siblings Costante and Luigia Bonvini set up along Corso Lodi in Milan's then-industrial San Luigi district. The business quickly expanded into printing to serve the growing neighborhood, turning out everything from letterheads to price lists on machinery that included a late-19th-century treadle press, a 1930 Imperia platen press and a 1950s Heidelberg Stella -- all still on site today. Costante's daughter Leila Bonvini and her husband Luigi Cambieri kept the family workshop running for decades afterward.
In 2014, the associates of FBM S.r.l. carried out a conservative restoration of the premises at Via Tagliamento 1, preserving the original layout, printing machines, bookbinding equipment and wooden typographic drawers rather than converting the space. Bonvini 1909 reopened as a working shop and cultural venue combining a functioning letterpress, a bookbindery and gallery space for exhibitions.
The workshop today runs typography and bookbinding services alongside courses -- including a paste-paper (carta colla) workshop teaching the centuries-old technique for decorating book endpapers and covers -- positioning Bonvini 1909 as one of Milan's few surviving working print-and-bindery botteghe rather than a museum piece.
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II 12, Milan / Online
The Bocca bookselling house began in Turin in 1775; its surviving Milan branch trades under the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.
Best for Art books beneath the Galleria dome.
Milan / Online
Milan-based streetwear label launched January 2015 by designer-photographer Francesco Ragazzi, grown out of his 2014 photo book on LA skate culture, backed by New Guards Group.
Best for Track suits and skate luxury.
Palm Angels grew out of a 2014 photography book of the same name by Francesco Ragazzi, an Italian designer and photographer who had worked with Moncler, documenting the young skateboarding scene of Los Angeles. After Ragazzi presented related work at an exhibition at Colette in Paris, New Guards Group approached him to develop a full clothing line, and Palm Angels launched in January 2015. The label is based in Milan but built its identity around the imagery and attitude of LA skate culture, applying Italian production and tailoring techniques to sweatshirts, track suits, and logo-driven streetwear.
Modena / Italy
In a fourteenth-century Modena mansion, the Barbieri family produces Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena DOP, including twelve- and twenty-five-year cuvees. The vinegars and accessories sell through the online shop, and tours can be booked at the acetaia.
Best for Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena DOP and booked acetaia tours
Montalcino / Italy
Founded in 1970 by a small group of growers, this Montalcino winery makes Rosso, Brunello and its 4Q Riserva from vineyards spread across the appellation's four quadrants. Visitors can tour the contemporary cellar and taste the wines by booking directly with the team.
Best for Winery, Brunello, Rosso-di-Montalcino, Sangiovese
Pisa / Italy
Libreria Erasmus is an independent bookshop that has operated near Pisa's Torre since opening in December 2013, stocking fiction, poetry, and language-learning titles in Italian and a dozen other languages. The shop also hosts book presentations and poetry readings throughout the year at its Piazza Cavallotti location.
Best for Bookstore, Books, Literature
Radda In Chianti / Italy
Castello di Radda is a winery surrounded by its own Sangiovese vineyards overlooking the medieval village of Radda in Chianti, certified 100% organic since 2020. The estate sells its Chianti Classico Gran Selezione, Riserva and other bottlings through a dedicated wine club and welcomes visitors for cellar experiences booked in advance.
Best for Organic-certified Chianti Classico Gran Selezione overlooking medieval Radda
Radda In Chianti / Italy
Premiata Fattoria di Castelvecchi has made wine on the hills above Radda in Chianti for a thousand years, and today produces Chianti Classico crus like Capotondo, Lodolaio and Madonnino della Pieve from eleven historic vineyards. The estate, part of the Casa Paladin group, sells its bottlings through an affiliated online wine shop and welcomes visitors for tastings booked in advance.
Best for Capotondo, Lodolaio and Madonnino della Pieve Chianti Classico
Historic & Traditional, Rome / Online
Rome antiquarian bookshop specializing in rare books, maps, and engravings, family-run by the D'Aniello family since 1991. Currently at Piazza Sallustio 14. Founded 1974, not 1931 as sometimes stated.
Best for Antiquarian books and prints.
Ex Libris is a Rome antiquarian bookshop specializing in rare and antique books, maps, and engravings, with particular emphasis on first editions. According to the shop's own 'Chi siamo' page and its listing with A.L.A.I. (the Italian antiquarian booksellers' association), the business was founded in 1974, not 1931. The D'Aniello family took over management in 1991; the shop was more recently run by Emidio and Leone D'Aniello, alongside Maria Pia Lanzoni until her death in 2022. It is a member of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. The shop is currently located at Piazza Sallustio 14 in Rome's Ludovisi-Sallustiano district, open Tuesday through Saturday.
Via Del Babuino, Rome / Online
The Roman address for collector art books - Franco Maria Ricci's imprint on Via del Babuino, where the book is made to be an object.
Best for Collector art books.
Rome
Italy's largest bookstore chain, and the Via del Corso flagship is the biggest in Rome. Three floors of Italian and international books, music, and gifts.
Best for Three floors of Italian and international books, music, and gifts
Rome
Pergamena is a workshop specializing in handmade paper and bookbinding. Production is associated with Handcrafted in their Roman workshop using traditional techniques, while the range centers on handmade paper, bookbinding and stationery.
Best for Handmade paper, bookbinding and stationery
Torre del Greco
Enzo Liverino 1894 has made coral and shell cameo jewelry in Torre del Greco since 1894, produced across five generations of the Liverino family. The company is based on Via Montedoro and references the CIBJO Coral Book and sustainable-coral standards.
Best for Coral and shell cameo jewelry
Turin / Italy
Bottega Fagnola has bound and restored books by hand in Turin since 1955, working on everything from notarial deeds to antique manuscripts at its Via Orvieto workshop under master bookbinder Luciano Fagnola. Its Via San Tommaso shop and online store sell handmade agendas, albums, and notebooks crafted with the same techniques.
Best for Crafts & Stationery, Bookbinding
Via Po 7, 10124 Torino, Italy / Turin / Italy
Founded Turin 1848 on Piazza San Carlo; ALAI member still trading rare books and prints at Via Po 7 (official site; ALAI directory, catalogue 349-2026).
Best for Rare books and prints from a Turin antiquarian founded in 1848.
Via Cesare Battisti 11 (Galleria Subalpina), 10123 Torino, Italy / Turin / Italy
Founded 1872 (as Libreria Beuf/Casanova); one of Turin’s oldest bookshops, reopened January 2025 in Galleria Subalpina (MuseoTorino; RAI TGR Piemonte).
Best for International books in one of Turin’s oldest bookshops.
Venice
Bottega Casati Venezia has followed the tradition of marbled paper and bookbinding since 1983 from Cannaregio in Venice's historic center, near La Fenice. Owner Stefano Casati's workshop makes notebooks, photo albums, masks and document holders from its own marbled paper, hand-printed velvet and Italian leather.
Best for Venetian marbled paper and bookbinding
Venice / Italy
Il Forcolaio Matto is Piero Dri's Venetian workshop, where he hand-carves forcole and oars for gondolas using techniques dating to the city's 1307 remer guild, selling finished pieces from his Cannaregio bottega and online shop. Visitors can book a paid studio tour to watch him shape walnut into the traditional rowlocks.
Best for Visitors can book a paid studio tour to watch him shape walnut
Venice
ScribaVenice hand-paints marbled paper into books, photo frames and wax seals, and pairs it with Murano glass pens and lenses, each sheet made unique by its painting technique. The workshop is located at Salizada San Lio in Venice's Castello district, under proprietor Giuseppe Ferlito.
Best for Hand-painted venetian marbled paper
Vico Equense / Italy
Caseificio Starace has made cow's-milk cheeses in Vico Equense since 1920, selling caciocavallo, mozzarella fior di latte, and its signature Provolone di Vico daily from its Via Luigi Avellino shop and online store. Visitors can also book hands-on mozzarella- and butter-making experiences at the dairy.
Best for Caciocavallo and signature Provolone di Vico, plus hands-on mozzarella-making experiences
Montepulciano / Italy / Online
A Montepulciano wine estate producing Vino Nobile and Rosso di Montepulciano from organically farmed vineyards. Its wines can be bought through the online cart or tasted on a booked visit to the cellar.
Best for Organically farmed Vino Nobile and Rosso di Montepulciano, with booked cellar tastings
La Pila, Campo nell'Elba, Isola d'Elba, Italy
This Campo nell'Elba estate produces roughly 75,000 bottles a year, led by an Elba Aleatico Passito DOCG and an Aleatico grappa alongside Ansonica, Vermentino and Syrah. Visitors can book a two-hour cellar and barrel-room tour with tasting, or buy from the estate shop and online store.
Best for Elba Aleatico passito and cellar tours
Volterra / Italy
Since 1895, this Volterra cooperative has carved and polished alabaster into lamps, sculptures, and everyday objects, continuing a craft tradition recognized as a National Historic Enterprise of Italy. Visitors can browse the shop on Piazza dei Priori or book a guided tour of the workshop on Via Padre Eugenio Barsanti to watch artisans at work.
Best for Stone Carving, Alabaster
Capri town
Founded in Capri in 1989 by Ausilia Veneruso and Riccardo Esposito, La Conchiglia publishes and sells books devoted to the island's history, writers and dolce-vita past. Its bookshops stock island memoirs, photographs and reprints found nowhere else.
Best for Books about Capri and island culture
Ferrara (Via de’ Romei)
An independent bookshop on Via de' Romei that combines books with an exhibition space and a workshop, stocking new, used and out-of-print art, design and illustrated titles. It also sells handmade paper, hand-carved stamps and ex libris, and runs watercolour courses and custom framing.
Best for Independent art bookshop and paper goods
Amalfi
An Amalfi stationery and bookbinding shop built around handmade Amalfi paper. It turns out leather-bound journals, letterpress printing and traditional craft goods.
Best for Amalfi paper journals and stationery
Tramonti / Italy
Tenuta San Francesco farms century-old, pre-phylloxera vines on the terraced slopes of Tramonti, above the Amalfi Coast, producing DOC wines from indigenous grapes like Tintore and Piedirosso. Visitors can book wine tours, tastings, and cooking classes at the estate on Via Fieccia.
Best for Visitors can book wine tours, tastings
Marche / Online
The Gommino driving shoe from the Della Valle family's Marche factories — Italian casual-luxury leather. Diego Della Valle named the company J.P. Tod's in 1978, taking the name from a Boston, Massachusetts telephone book; the 'J.P.' prefix was dropped in 1999.
Best for Gommino drivers and weekend leather luxury.
The Della Valle family made shoes in the Marche from the 1920s; Diego Della Valle's stroke of clarity in the late 1970s created Tod's around a single object — the Gommino, a driving moccasin soled with 133 rubber pebbles, designed for the pedal and adopted for everything else. The Gommino became Italian sprezzatura in footwear form: aristocrats, industrialists, and Agnelli himself wore them as the uniform of dressed-down authority. The house, still family-controlled and headquartered in the Marche where production remains, extended into loafers, bags — the D bag among them — and a broader leather goods wardrobe, and has underwritten major Italian heritage restorations including the Colosseum. The Gommino in suede is the essential purchase, worn sockless in the canonical manner. Few houses are so completely explained by one shoe; fewer still made the explanation this durable.
Size the Gommino snug — suede relaxes with wear — and expect to resole eventually; the pebbled sole is consumable by design and the house offers replacement.
Montepulciano / Italy / Online
Founded in 1937, this Tuscan cooperative winery unites around 400 local growers to make Vino Nobile and other Montepulciano wines. Guests can tour its cellars of centuries-old barrels and buy the wines online or on a booked tasting.
Best for Winery, cooperative, Vino-Nobile, Sangiovese
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