Pitti mosaici

Pitti Mosaici was founded at the beginning of the 1980s by Emilio De Filippis, who goes by the name of Ilio. After studying architecture in Florence, Ilio gradually moved away from religious sculpture to take an interest in residential architecture. But during his studies, he discovered another manufacturing technique: the antique art of inlaid pietra dura, ‘the art of the Medici’.

Ilio De Filippis opened his laboratory in Piazza Pitti in 1982, continuing this particular Florentine art of creating reproductions in pietra dura and semi-precious stones, a technique known as commesso fiorentino. Ilio works together with his children Isse and Iory, who represent the fourth generation of family artists.