SICULI SHOP

Goldsmith, Palermo

Roberto Intorre

Roberto Intorre trained as an architect before becoming a goldsmith, and that structural eye still shapes every piece from his Palermo atelier. He draws directly from Sicily itself, the prickly pear's structure becomes a net-like pattern in his hands. His Gocce di Magma collection now represents Sicilian identity at the British Museum.

Design Lab, Ortigia

Scenapparente

Scenapparente has spent twenty-five years turning scenography into a way of life — costumes, props, restyled interiors, all built on instinct. Rafaella Piccione and Mela Salemi run it today alongside her brother Andrea Piccione, a fashion designer, guided by the same instinct that started it all: creativity, feeling, and the pride of being un'artigiana.

Ceramists, Caltagirone

Sofia Ceramiche

Giuseppe and Nicola Intonato founded Sofia Ceramiche in Caltagirone, the Sicilian town where majolica has been fired for a thousand years, and they carry that tradition forward with rare authority. Their hand-modeled, hand-painted Teste di Moro, now an emblem of Sicilian homes, have reached Dolce & Gabbana's New York store. Twenty artisans, family at the heart, and every piece shaped, painted, and fired in Caltagirone.

Needlework Artist, Ragusa Ibla

Maria Guastella

Maria Guastella built her own laboratory by hand: “I wanted a laboratory of my own, and I did it,” she says. Her technique, Sfilato Siciliano, traces back to the court of Frederick II, and she still works it the old way, drawing threads from pure linen to form the lace. Her hope now is a school, so the craft carries on with the next generation of girls.

Jewelry Designer, Ragusa Ibla

Baroccoro Jewels

Marinella Stornello spent twenty-five years behind a camera before opening BaroccOro Jewels in Ragusa Ibla in 2011, where she hand-paints ceramics and sets them with Etna lava and semi-precious stones. Her daughter Marika now runs the business while Marinella guides the art. Each piece is fired three times, the last pass fixing a gold luster that never wears off.

Accessory Designer, Ragusa Ibla 

DANIÉ Made in Sicily

Daniela Napolitano trained as a goldsmith in Florence before turning to the coffa, the woven palm-leaf basket Sicilian farmers carried for centuries. Through Danié Made in Sicily, founded in 2018, she reimagines it with lace, trimmings, and hand-painted Caltagirone ceramics inspired by Sicilian legends like the Teste di Moro and Arethusa. Every bag arrives with a certificate telling its story.

Hand-Weaving Atelier, Perugia

Giuditta Brozzetti

Marta Cucchia is the fourth generation to carry on Giuditta Brozzetti's atelier, founded in 1921 and now housed in Perugia's oldest Franciscan church. Trained in architecture, she learned the historic looms herself and relaunched the workshop in 1995. Today she leads a team of weavers recreating Umbria's medieval and Renaissance textiles on looms more than two centuries old.