An Italian company with its headquarters in tiny Marostica, one of the most picturesque towns in the Veneto region, works for clients in Paris, Berlin and Moscow: it makes custom-made classic furniture and selects rare items of art and antiques for the interior. Unlike most Italian factories that adapt historical styles to the modern market, CHIODELLI ARTE creates things as close as possible to antiquarian ones. At the same time, stylisations are so authentic that only a professional can distinguish the work of contemporaries in them. The company regards the revival of the old techniques of manual labor as a matter of honor. The masters of CHIODELLI ARTE can lay out a still life in the technique of marquetry, imitating the style of Maggiolini, or inlay the furniture with mother of pearl, ivory and semiprecious stones. “We create unique things: each of them is handmade and exists in a single copy,” says Marco proudly. “There is a fine line between art and craft,” he believes. “Woodcut, for example, is an art form that requires great craftmanship.” Our collection contains 18th century engraving boards made from paintings by Titian and Tintoretto by artist and traveler John Baptist Jackson. With the help of an old engraving machine, our masters create prints of reproductions of famous paintings from them. There are in the collection of CHIODELLI ARTE and authentic works of Italian artists of the XVI – XVII centuries. Among them are the names of the first quantity — like, for example, Veronese! —And less known, as Orazio Gentileschi, about whom CHIODELLI ARTE recently released a monograph. One of the followers of Caravaggio, he worked in Rome and Paris, and spent the last fourteen years of his life in England as court painter to Charles I. His work can be seen in the Brera Gallery in Milan, in the Louvre, in the museums of Vienna and Birmingham. In our meeting, his first and, perhaps, the most beautiful of the three, version of the painting “Rest on the Path to Egypt” is kept. Since there are very few works of Orazio Gentileschi and they all have been in museum collections for a long time, our picture is very rare. ”

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