I was eleven and had just finished my primary school, when, on a morning while walking along the streets of Valdicastello, my beloved village that was still recovering, like the rest of the Italian villages, from the disaster of the second world war, an awful war,...
Today we want to tell you a story… It is the story of our life in the field of mosaics, it is the story that took mosaics to become a form of art. It all started almost 12.000 years ago when in the region of Mesopotamia the first piece of mosaics appeared with the so...
From silicon to mosaics. From paste to tesseras. This is how colour is born in the mosaic world where everything is man-made and no piece is alike another one. Photocredit @Ferrari&Bacci This is the strength of craftsmanship. This is what makes our job a form of...
“The search for an artistic expression to represent the invisible with the visible: this is how the byzantine artists strove to solve the problem and rose the human figure to a metaphysical reality”. This I was reading some years ago, when I started getting involved...
In 1990 I joined Ferrari&Bacci and started that wonderful adventure that is my work in the mosaic business. It was a special year when many unique things happened: the two sides of Germany were reunited and Germany became one; the football world championship was...
After the Second World War, two Venetians came to Pietrasanta and started up a business in the mosaic field and two young boy: Spartaco Ferrari and Francesco Bacci, at the time young teenagers, started working for them. It was in 1950 that Ferrari&Bacci decided to...
