Bolzano / Italy
Tecnarredo Design in Bolzano specializes in Italian-designed kitchens and custom furniture with contemporary finishes.
Best for Italian-designed kitchens and furniture
Furniture & Lighting of Italy
23 stores · curated ORBIS register
Italian furniture treats the living room as a gallery with legs, Milan vintage on one wall and Murano glass overhead. Nilufar Gallery shows vintage design pieces around a courtyard showroom in Milan. Poltrona Frau has made heirloom leather sofas in Tolentino, Marche since 1912. Barovier & Toso blows Murano chandeliers and heritage glass on the lagoon island. Italian comfort reveals itself after five minutes, so sit before admiring. The beautiful pieces are rarely small, a reason to measure the doorway before falling for anything.
Visit official site ↗Como / Italy
The Lago store on Via Milano in Como furnishes rooms with design furniture in sizes and finishes the buyer chooses.
Best for Modern furniture in chosen sizes
Visit official site ↗Historic centre, lecce / Italy
Vico dei Bolognesi is a concept store in the historic centre of Lecce selling clothing, accessories, vintage furniture, home decor and beauty products. Its online shop supports direct orders, while its footer lists a Via Matteotti 22A street address in Lecce along with phone, WhatsApp and email contacts; the site also advertises an in-store event at that address. The physical address and published contacts remain part of the accountable store identity.
Best for Concept store, fashion, home decor, vintage, accessories
Visit official site ↗Matera / Italy
Artempo in Matera keeps a selection of lighting and clocks that changes through the year.
Best for Lighting, clocks and textiles
Visit official site ↗Milan / Online
Milan lighting company founded 1959 by Ernesto Gismondi and Sergio Mazza, maker of Richard Sapper's 1972 Tizio lamp and Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina's 1986 Tolomeo, both held in MoMA and the Met's permanent collections.
Best for Tolomeo task lamps.
Artemide was founded in 1959 near Milan (in Pregnana Milanese) by Ernesto Gismondi, an aerospace engineer, and designer Sergio Mazza, a pairing that shaped the company's identity as a lighting maker solving structural and technical problems through design. Its two most recognized products are the Tizio desk lamp, designed by Richard Sapper in 1972, and the Tolomeo desk lamp, designed by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina in 1986 - both are held in the permanent design collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The company frames its design approach as treating illumination as both a technical and an emotional problem.
Visit official site ↗Milan / Online
Milan design studio founded 2010 by Domenico Orefice; its 'Man de Milan' line ('Hands of Milan') pairs objects and furniture with Lombard artisans - ceramics, marble, textile and furnace workshops.
Best for Collectible design
Domenico Orefice Design Studio is a Milan-based design and art-direction practice founded in 2010 by designer Domenico Orefice, based on Via Lorenteggio in Milan. The studio works across interior design, product design and branding, describing its approach as working across the traditional boundaries between design, craftsmanship and art. In 2018 the studio launched "Man de Milan" - Milanese dialect for "hands of Milan" - a collection of furniture, objects and textiles produced in collaboration with artisans from Milan and Lombardy. Pieces in the collection include "Mulino," a rotating bookshelf referencing Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical drawings, and objects made at the historic Fornace Curti furnace, including diamond-shaped "Curti tiles" and a piggy-bank-to-flowerpot piece called "Salvadane." The studio has also worked with regional makers including ceramics producer Ceramiche Keope, marble workshop Alfaterna Marmi, and textile mill Lanificio Leo, extending the same collaborative-craft approach across ceramics, marble, wood and textile pieces.
Visit official site ↗Milano / Via della Spiga
Nina Yashar's design gallery — vintage and contemporary furniture, the courtyard showroom, and the destination that defines Milan's design scene.
Best for Vintage furniture, design gallery, courtyard showroom.
Visit official site ↗San Gregorio Armeno, Naples
Arte in Movimento De Maria, on Via San Gregorio Armeno in Naples, makes nativity and Easter figures (pastori natalizi e pasquali) and custom presepi using cork, terracotta, ceramics, and fabric clothing for the figures. Pieces can include miniature food, moving mechanisms, and theatrical lighting and water effects.
Best for Custom neapolitan nativity scenes
Visit official site ↗Porto Mantovano / Italy
Lupi on Via Bachelet in Porto Mantovano selects kitchens and living-room furniture, and the pieces that go with them.
Best for Kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms
Visit official site ↗Art, Galleries & Antiques, Naples / Online
Galleria Benucci is a Via del Babuino's grand antiques gallery, offering museum-scale Italian furniture and paintings. Its practical focus is serious Roman antiques, presented through a physical retail setting in Rome.
Best for Serious Roman antiques.
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Poltrona Frau
Heritage HouseTolentino / Marche / Online
Poltrona Frau has made leather furniture in Tolentino, Marche since 1912, using its own Pelle Frau saddle-grade leather. The house is known for the Chester sofa and a century of leather upholstery made at that same Italian workshop.
Best for Heirloom leather sofas.
Visit official site ↗Barovier & Toso
Heritage HouseMurano / Venice / Online
Murano glass dynasty since 1295 — handcrafted blown-glass chandeliers and lighting by master artisans using traditional techniques.
Best for Murano chandeliers and heritage glass.
Barovier & Toso, founded in 1295, is one of the world's oldest family businesses and a master of lighting design. The company is a producer of Venetian glass and chandeliers based in Murano, Italy, well known for its exquisite Murano glassware handcrafted using traditional techniques passed down through generations of glassmakers. The Barovier dynasty began in 1295 when Jacobello Barovier, mentioned in historical documents as a master glassblower, began pinching, cutting, blowing, and twisting molten mixtures of sand and minerals into works of art. The creations of Barovier & Toso are one-of-a-kind works in Venetian mouth-blown crystal, handcrafted by master artisans in Murano who serve as custodians of an age-old tradition passed down across generations. Specialties include crystalline glass, mother-of-pearl glass, and gold-free cornelian red glass. The company offers a product line called 'Venezia 1295,' a chandelier collection referencing the foundational year of the Barovier family. The brand continues to produce luxury lighting and decorative glass objects using traditional techniques, maintaining the highest standards of Venetian glassmaking.
Visit official site ↗Murano, Venice
CAM Vetri d'Arte makes vases, lighting, glassware, jewelry, mirrors and sculptures using the ancient glassblowing technique from a 1900s palazzo at Piazzale Colonna in Murano. Its gallery houses a museum dedicated to glass master Pino Signoretto (1944-2017), and pieces carry a CAM certificate of originality.
Best for Murano blown glass objects and sculpture
Visit official site ↗Vico Equense / Italy
Enrico Morricone on Via Nicotera in Vico Equense makes furniture cut to the room it will stand in.
Best for Furniture made to the room
Visit official site ↗alab'Arte
Worth a DetourVolterra / Italy
alab'Arte is the last active alabaster-carving workshop in Volterra, where artisans Roberto Chiti and Giorgio Finazzo hand-sculpt one-of-a-kind pieces from genuine alabaster rather than imitation materials. Finished sculptures and lighting are sold from their shop on Via Don Minzoni, a short walk from the Via Orti di Sant'Agostino workshop.
Best for Stone Carving
Visit official site ↗La Villa, Alta Badia, South Tyrol, Italy
This joinery has worked wood in La Villa for more than sixty years, a village the surrounding Val Badia has long relied on for cabinetry and carpentry skills. Two family members still run the workshop today, building bespoke furniture and interiors to order with a mix of traditional joinery and computer-guided machinery.
Best for Bespoke wooden furniture and custom joinery
Visit official site ↗Vietri sul Mare
Ceramica Margherita has made handmade ceramics since 1996 on Corso Umberto I in Vietri sul Mare, working in a distinctive Sabbiato technique with its own glaze. Founder Margherita D'Amato and co-founder Giovanni Stabile produce mythological figures, animals, masks, religious subjects and lighting fixtures.
Best for Handmade vietri ceramics
Visit official site ↗Montelabbate, Marche, Italy
Founded in 1973 by Vittorio Livi in Italy's Marche region, Fiam Italia pioneered industrial curved-glass furniture — bent and cold-curved mirrors, tables and chairs — and still produces and sells from its Montelabbate showroom and outlet today.
Best for Curved-glass furniture and sculptural mirrors
Fiam Italia was founded in 1973 by Vittorio Livi in Italy's Marche region, and became the first furniture company to industrialize the shaping of glass into curved, three-dimensional forms rather than treating it purely as a flat, functional material. Early output centered on bevelled and curved mirrors, which were in high demand; through the 1980s the company expanded into glass tables and chairs, pioneering cold-curving and heat-bending techniques developed in-house. Over five decades Fiam has collaborated with an international roster of designers and architects to produce pieces that combine industrial glass-processing equipment with hand-finishing by skilled workers — a hybrid of factory-scale production and artisanal control. The company's outlet and showroom operate from Via Provinciale 57 in Montelabbate, in the province of Pesaro e Urbino, part of the Marche region long associated with Italian furniture and shoe manufacturing. Fiam remains a reference name in Italian glass design, continuing to build its identity around the technical and aesthetic possibilities of curved glass rather than diversifying into unrelated materials.
Visit official site ↗Brescia / Lombardy / Online
Italian lighting manufacturer founded 1962 in Merano by Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina, soon joined by designers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni; headquarters moved to Brescia in 1962-64, where the Arco floor lamp was created.
Best for The Arco and design lighting.
Flos was founded in 1962 by Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina in Merano, Italy. The Castiglioni brothers, Achille and Pier Giacomo, along with designer Tobia Scarpa, joined shortly afterward. Under Sergio Gandini the company's headquarters moved to Brescia, near Milan, where Flos remains based today. The Castiglionis' Arco floor lamp, designed in 1962 - a long steel arm curving from a Carrara marble base to a chrome shade - became one of the defining pieces of postwar Italian design. Flos is now part of the Flos B&B Italia Group.
Visit official site ↗La Bottega Art Gallery (Tuscan Antiques)
Hidden GemCastellina in Chianti
An antiques dealer and art gallery in Castellina trading in Tuscan furniture, paintings, and decorative objects. It presents its curated stock of period pieces both in the village bottega and through its own online catalogue.
Best for Tuscan antiques and art
Visit official site ↗Volterra
Piero Melani Alabastri has made small and large alabaster objects since 1998 from Via Borgo Santo Stefano in Volterra, alongside custom furnishings that combine alabaster with wood, iron, glass and metal inserts and integrated lighting. Founder Piero Melani was born in Volterra in 1964.
Best for Custom volterra alabaster furnishings
Visit official site ↗Cicognara / Lombardy / Online
Italian design factory in Mantua producing contemporary home furnishings—tableware, lighting, furniture, and decorative objects with bold aesthetic vision.
Best for Design objects with a grin.
Seletti is a design-driven manufacturer based in Cicognara (Mantua), Lombardy, Italy. The company produces an extensive range of contemporary home furnishings spanning tableware (plates, mugs, glasses, cutlery, bowls), lighting (table, floor, wall, and pendant lamps), furniture (chairs, sofas, tables, shelves, beds), and decorative objects (vases, candles, mirrors, photo frames). The brand collaborates with notable designers on limited-edition collections, emphasizing design-forward aesthetics and decorative impact. Product categories also include textiles, outdoor furniture, jewelry, sunglasses, and beauty items. The legal headquarters is at via Codebruni Levante 32, with tax ID IT01221790205.
Visit official site ↗Lombardy / Online
Italian avant-garde furniture house founded 1954 in Nova Milanese by Aurelio Zanotta, collaborating with experimental designers to produce radical postmodern design.
Best for The Sacco beanbag original.
Aurelio Zanotta founded the furniture company in Nova Milanese in 1954, initially focusing on traditional upholstered pieces. The company rapidly shifted toward experimental design, commissioning forward-thinking Italian designers including the Castiglioni brothers, Joe Colombo, and Ettore Sottsass. By the 1960s and 1970s, Zanotta had become known for producing some of the world's most significant postmodern and radical design works. The Sacco armchair, designed in 1968 by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, and Franco Teodoro, became an international icon—the first beanbag chair, filled with polystyrene balls that molded to the user's form. Other landmark pieces include the Mezzadro tractor stool by the Castiglioni brothers. Over its history, Zanotta has collaborated with over 140 designers from 18 countries and produced more than 550 products, with 336 works now held in permanent museum collections worldwide including the Triennale Design Museum Milan, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris, and London's V&A.
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