Damiano Chiappini was born in a family of shoemakers. He learned the craft from his father Luigi, who was a master shoemaker.

Hand welted, Norwegian, Blake Rapid, Blake

In Casette d'Ete, a small but densely populated hamlet of Sant'Elpidio a Mare, Francesco Petroselli creates handmade golf shoes in his laboratory.

This top-class specialisation is the result of meticulous knowledge of the materials and a mastery of the working techniques, today,...

Vittorio Spernanzoni was born in 1936 in Morrovalle, in the heart of Le Marche. Right in the aftermath of the war, he started working at a very young age as a shop boy at a shoemaker of his town. Soon he would start his own workshop - out of the space below his home stairs - trying out different...

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