Cufflinks and studs are the specialism at Barbarulo / Gemelli da Polso (4 generations), the Naples goldsmith atelier Raffaele Barbarulo founded in 1894. His great-grandson Cristiano continues the business, representing the fourth generation of the family. Mariano Rubinacci draws on an archive of vintage cloth for made-to-measure and bespoke Neapolitan tailoring. Finamore 1925 also offers a dedicated one-piece collar collection, with the collar cut from a single piece of cloth.
Naples goldsmith atelier founded 1894 by Raffaele Barbarulo, documented via his 1894 marriage record; now run by his great-grandson Cristiano Barbarulo, the fourth-generation jeweller, since 2012.
Best for Neapolitan cufflinks and studs.
Barbarulo Napoli 1894 is a family goldsmith's workshop in Naples specializing in handmade cufflinks and jewelry. Its founding is dated to 1894 via an act of marriage recording founder Raffaele Barbarulo's trade as a goldsmith in the province of Naples that year. The business passed down through the family across four generations; Cristiano Barbarulo, Raffaele's great-grandson, took over running the atelier in 2012 as the last direct descendant still active in the trade, continuing the handcrafted production methods while developing the range further. The workshop is known for bespoke cufflinks and has supplied pieces used in film, including for Michael Caine in Youth and Geoffrey Rush in The Best Offer.
Fourth-generation Neapolitan shirtmaker with a dedicated one-piece collar collection — the antique construction cut from a single piece, collar rolling upright on its own.
A Naples pizzeria tracing to the Condurro family's 1870s pizza-making, formally founded by Michele Condurro in 1906 and relocated to Via Cesare Sersale in 1930; still run by the same family five generations later, serving only Margherita and Marinara.
Best for The purist's pizza pilgrimage.
L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele traces its lineage to the Condurro family's pizza-making in Naples beginning around 1870, when Salvatore Condurro's methods were passed down through the family. His son Michele Condurro, trained in the technique by the Torre Annunziata pizza masters, opened the pizzeria under his own name in 1906, originally on the site now occupied by Ascalesi Hospital. Construction there forced a relocation, and in 1930 the pizzeria moved to its present address on Via Cesare Sersale, near Naples's historic center, where it has operated continuously since. During the Second World War, wartime shortages led the family to narrow the menu to just two pizzas — Margherita and Marinara — a restriction the pizzeria has kept ever since as a matter of identity rather than necessity, still serving no other varieties at its original Naples location. Now run by the fifth generation of the Condurro family, the original shop continues making large, low-priced pies without elaborate toppings, in contrast to the international outposts the brand has since opened in cities including Rome, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Dubai.
Three generations of Neapolitan bespoke tailoring shaped by the London House style, with an extensive archive of vintage cloth supporting the house’s made-to-measure and bespoke work.
Best for Bespoke Neapolitan tailoring and jackets from archive cloth.
Naples umbrella house since 1860, hand-bending single lengths of chestnut, bamboo or Malacca cane under steam and sewing silk canopies by hand; supplied Bourbon-Two Sicilies royalty and, more recently, King Charles III.
Best for Naples umbrella house since 1860, hand-bending single lengths of chestnut
Mario Talarico's workshop, tucked on Vico Due Porte a Toledo just off Naples' Via Toledo, has made umbrellas by hand since 1860, one of Naples' oldest surviving artisan houses. Each cane runs the full length of the umbrella as a single, unbroken piece of wood - chestnut, bamboo, beech, cherry or Malacca - bent under steam into a curve of at least 180 degrees rather than jointed from separate parts, the technique that gives a Talarico umbrella its identifying silhouette. Canopies are cut and sewn by hand from silk or cotton, and handles are finished individually: a rustic chestnut 'root' handle keeps its natural bark at the knob while the shaft beneath is shaved down for a slimmer furled profile. The shop has carried royal custom across two eras - historically supplying the Bourbon-Two Sicilies court, and more recently making the first whole-bamboo umbrella produced for King Charles III of England. It was also the umbrella-maker of choice for the Neapolitan actor Antonio De Curtis, known as Toto, and appears in the classic film Natale in Casa Cupiello. Alongside retail, the workshop repairs umbrellas it has made over decades and keeps a small on-site museum of pieces and tools documenting the craft. Visitors come less for a fixed catalogue than for an umbrella built to their own cane, handle and canopy choices, made in the same hand-steamed, single-piece method the shop has used since the 19th century.
Naples pizzeria opened 1901 in Materdei by Alfonso Starita, now run by the fourth generation. Its claimed link to Sophia Loren's 'L'Oro di Napoli' (1954) is disputed by at least one Naples food-press outlet, which says filming occurred at a different, now-gone shop nearby.
Best for Montanare and classics.
Pizzeria Starita is a pizzeria in the Materdei district of Naples, opened in 1901 by Alfonso Starita as a wine cellar that gradually became a fried-food shop and then a pizzeria; it is now run by the fourth generation of the Starita family. It is widely associated with the 1954 film 'L'Oro di Napoli,' in which Sophia Loren's character fries dough in a Naples street-food stall, and the pizzeria's own account describes staff providing logistical support during filming. That said, at least one Naples food publication has directly disputed the connection, arguing the filming actually took place at a different, no-longer-existing shop nearby.
Naples jeweler on Via San Biagio dei Librai, inside the Renaissance Palazzo Marigliano; bought as a shop in 1922 by Maria, widowed after her husband Paolo's earlier goldsmith workshop in the Sanità district closed, and still family-run in gold, silver and coral.
Best for Neapolitan coral and gold.
Salvio Gioielleria's history begins with Paolo, who ran a goldsmithing workshop with more than twenty craftsmen in Naples's Sanità district in the early 20th century — an operation that closed amid wartime disruption. After Paolo's death, his widow Maria, left with three children, bought a shop in 1922 at Via San Biagio dei Librai 41, inside the 16th-century Palazzo Marigliano in the heart of Naples's historic center — the same address the business trades from today. The family has run the shop continuously since that purchase, a stretch the business itself marks as 96 years of operation in its own materials, and describes its continuity as passed 'from generation to generation.' The jewelry mixes gold, silver and coral — coral working has its own long tradition along the Bay of Naples — and the shop also runs a workshop doing restoration of antique and religious objects, engraving, and repairs to gold and silver pieces, plus routine services like watch battery changes.
A Naples tie workshop opened in the 1920s by Eugenio Calabrese, who owned some 300 ties and became a style reference for friends; closed during WWII, revived after by son Francesco, and now led by fourth-generation Annalisa Calabrese.
Best for Tie heritage polos; Shirts, ties, Neapolitan style
Calabrese traces its origins to the 1920s, when Eugenio Calabrese, a Neapolitan with a personal wardrobe of more than three hundred ties, turned his passion for dressing well into a workshop producing handmade ties in the heart of Naples. He became a style reference for relatives, friends and acquaintances who sought his advice. The workshop closed during the Second World War, and after the war his son, Francesco Calabrese, revived the business. By the 1960s, ties bearing the F. Calabrese label had built a following across Europe and overseas, making the firm one of the longest-running tie manufacturers still operating in Europe. The business passed to the next generation under Gaetano Calabrese, and in 1991 to his daughter Annalisa Calabrese, who today runs the company as its fourth generation. In 2024, marking a century since Eugenio's original workshop, Calabrese 1924 presented a centenary capsule collection at Pitti Uomo 106 in Florence. The company continues to make its ties and sartorial accessories in Naples and sells through boutiques internationally.
A Torre del Greco coral house, founded 1855 — six generations of Neapolitan coral, cameos and mother-of-pearl worked since the Bourbon court; the atelier and small museum share the Galleria Umberto salon.
Best for Neapolitan red coral and cameos worked by hand.
Omega was founded in Naples in 1923 by Gennaro Squillace and is now led by Alberto Squillace, the fifth generation of the family to run it — a continuity the house itself describes as unbroken since founding.
Best for A century-old Naples family glove factory
Omega was founded in Naples in 1923 by Gennaro Squillace and is now led by Alberto Squillace, the fifth generation of the family to run it — a continuity the house itself describes as unbroken since founding. It operates out of the Sanità neighborhood, part of the historic Naples glove-making district that grew up around the street still called Via dei Guantai Nuovi, where whole families once specialized in one of the many hand steps a glove requires.
That step count is central to how Omega describes its own process: the site states its gloves pass through "25 production stages, each carried out strictly by hand," from tanning and coloring done at workshops near Vesuvius to cutting, sewing, and quality checks completed in the Naples atelier itself. Leathers include plongé lamb, peccary, carpincho, and deer, lined in silk or in cashmere sourced from Biella; production is kept deliberately small and the house supplies haute couture clients internationally.
Naples' glove trade is UNESCO-recognized as a rare craft, and Omega is presented on its own site as the oldest glove factory still operating in the city — a claim consistent with the 1923 founding date and the unbroken family line to today. It welcomes visitors interested in seeing the craft directly, which fits an atlas built around houses that can be visited, not just ordered from.
Artigiano del Guanto traces to a workshop in northern Naples run by Giovanni Ricciardiello, described on the brand's own site as a "master glove maker for 50 years" carrying forward the city's old Neapolitan glove-making families.
Best for A family-run Naples workshop hand-stitching gloves for its own line
Artigiano del Guanto traces to a workshop in northern Naples run by Giovanni Ricciardiello, described on the brand's own site as a "master glove maker for 50 years" carrying forward the city's old Neapolitan glove-making families. In 2016 the laboratory was renewed and rebranded under its current name, with Ricciardiello's children — Francesco, Mimmo, and Flora — joining to modernize production and bring the house to a wider market without moving it out of Naples.
The process described is fully manual: leather is dampened and stretched using water-soaked cloths, cut and embroidered by hand, and joined using several traditional stitch types — stroke, hand-stitching, piquet, and saddle stitch — before hand-lining with thermal hands and manual hemming. Materials span African lamb, South American carpincho, Peruvian peccary, Canadian deer, and sheep leather, a materials range consistent with a house working across both fine dress gloves and sturdier everyday pairs.
The workshop states it produces gloves for Giorgio Armani, MaxMara, Coccinelle, and Pinko, which places it as a manufacturing partner to fashion houses as well as a maker selling under its own name — a dual role common among the Naples glove families that once supplied Milan and Paris from the same benches. Alongside Omega, it belongs to Naples' continuing glove-making tradition.
Gala Gloves has hand-stitched leather gloves in Naples since 1930, founded by Anna and Raffaele Muscariello and now carried on by Alessandro Pellone across three generations. Materials include carpincho, peccary and deerskin leathers, with linings in cashmere, silk and wool.
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