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firenze
VIA DEI SERRAGLI 10/R
Firenze, FI
+39 055 294694
duccio.banchi@gmail.com
www.ducciobanchibronzista.it
Opening hours:
8:00 - 14:30
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NERI TORRIGIANI
Since 1925, Florence’s via dei Serragli has been hosting a bronze workshop, still fitted with period furniture. Its founder, Vasco Cappuccini, passed it on to Lamberto Banchi, who, in turn, taught the trade to his son, Duccio. Today, Duccio is passionately carrying forward his business, working on bronze and other metals for artistic furniture, decorations and home furnishings like clocks, lamps and bookends. He is also specialising in creating frames skilfully replicated in different patterns, and in restoring antique objects.
In 2008, Duccio and his father Lamberto were granted the prestigious “Bottega Artigiana Fiorentina” award.
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For nearly 25 years I have been hanging around the Banchi workshop, admirably run first by Lamberto, then by his son Duccio. He has just celebrated ...
For nearly 25 years I have been hanging around the Banchi workshop, admirably run first by Lamberto, then by his son Duccio. He has just celebrated the 60th anniversary of an unrelenting activity, started immediately after World War II, then crippled by the great Flood, and now based on the outskirts of San Frediano, the world's coolest neighbourhood, according to Lonely Planet! Duccio learnt everything from his father, as often happens in the great artisanal traditions, and is now integrating his own ideas, his own “trials” with traditional stylistic elements. The workshop is worth a visit and it is pretty much impossible to leave without buying something : their frames are so unique!