Agresti

Artisans of Luxury, since 1949, Agresti has been a worldwide benchmark for innovative luxury wood products. Originally located in the heart of Florence, their factory, now just outside its medieval walls, is an ultra-modern manufacturing facility, continuing in the long tradition of Florentine craftsmanship.

Founded in over 60 years ago, Pia and Oswaldo Agresti began producing unique cabinetry in the Florentine style. Focusing on fine jewelry cases and armoires, they soon became famous for their exceptional style and workmanship. The range was expanded to jewelry safes and related luxury lifestyle cabinetry for games, watches, cufflinks, pens and other collectables. They found rare Italian elm burls and sliced them to yield distinctive veneers, which when laminated to several rossed plies of poplar, became a durable and warp-free material. That unique briarwood construction soon became the Agresti signature.

In the Agresti factory today, dedicated workers hand-craft each and every component. Yet this is a quite modern factory, where accurate saws and CNC machinery facilitate mass production, great tools for the skilled work staff that is totally focused on producing component parts with exceptional quality. Assuring fine finishes is still a manual job and experienced workers process and inspect each and every component part. Sealing and finish sanding is still done by hand by skilled craftsmen, assisted by powered equipment, but using their trained eyes to obtain perfect part flatness. Applying lacquer is also a hand operation, with each coat visually inspected to insure total coverage on all surfaces.

Today, the next generation, Francesca and Paolo Agresti together with Pia continue the tradition of Oswaldo and confirming the place of the Agresti name in the world of luxury.