About

In today’s world there are still artisans who wish to apply antique methods of composition to the modern design of objects. At the Ambrogi family’s Antiquities and Modern Design, the unwavering attention paid to each and every detail has brought this kind of craftmanship to a perfection.

Walter and Cesare Ambrogi began their work as restorers and dealers of antiquities as young adults in their father’s workshop. Due to the daily contact that the brothers had with such antique objects, a passion was born for materials like mother of pearl, tortoise-shell, horn, parchment, coral and lacquer, secrets handed down to the first-born Alessio.

Nowadays, from their very own restoration workshop, they produce such objects as modern cigar boxes, which are laquered and inlaid with tortoise-shell and mother of pearl of the highest quality.

The years of research that they did on these materials has brought old and forgotten techniques back to modern design; they have employed procedures such as the one invented by the famous French craftsman André-Charles Boulle, who in the 18th century enriched the chromatic effects of tortoise-shell by inserting a special colored paper beneath its thin and semi-transparent scales.

This sophisticated specialization is the result of a deep love for antiques, today helped by syntetic materials.