Travel

Journeys to meet the makers

Slow, curated trails through the regions where the craft still lives. Follow one as it is — or let us design a route around exactly what you love.

Gold & Fire

Emilia-Romagna → Veneto · 4 days · Spring / Autumn

Gold & Fire

A slow line from the wood-fired kilns of Faenza to the unmarked goldsmiths of Vicenza, by way of Venice's last letterpress.

1
Faenza
A morning at a wood-fired ceramics bottega; lunch where the potters eat.
Bottega Terracqua →
2
Venice
Marbled paper and a 1920s press in a ground-floor studio by the lagoon.
Carta e Segno →
3
Vicenza
A private bell-and-staircase visit to a lost-wax goldsmith.
Atelier Fiammingo →

Scent & Sea

Provence, France · 3 days · Late spring

Scent & Sea

The hills above Grasse at harvest, distillation by hand, and an afternoon where the flowers actually grow.

1
Grasse
A composition session with a single-nose perfumer; her own jasmine fields.
Maison Grasse N°7 →
2
Côte landscape
A long lunch, a slow road, and the light the perfume is trying to bottle.

Design & Dusk

Milan, Italy · 2 days · Any

Design & Dusk

Ultra-modern Milan in its warmest hour — a lighting atelier at dusk, reclaimed-gold goldsmithing on the Naviglio, and the CityLife / Porta Nuova skyline.

1
Brera / centre
A lighting studio that designs with shadow; a piece tested at golden hour.
Studio Controluce →
2
Naviglio
Redesign a piece of your own gold with a goldsmith who mines nothing.
Orafo del Naviglio →
3
Porta Nuova / CityLife
The modern skyline at dusk — the contrast the whole project is built on.

Personalised planning

A route designed around you

Tell us what you love — a craft, a region, an occasion — and we’ll design a private itinerary: which makers to meet, where to stay and eat, and how to move between them. Bookable end to end through our concierge.