about botteghe storiche, it's a trade association which groups few hundreds of activities which have to have in common few characteristics . one of that in particular is that they are supposed to have the same kind of activity for no less than 50 years. so there are many and some of them are very interesting.

the glass maker for example is a family company,. they make artistic glass decoration for private, big villas , but mostly for religious places. in Singapore they decorate something like 8 churches and the stae of singapore madev a postal stamp to honour theyr art.

buttons is based in luxury and fashinable via Montenapoleone, tehy produce all kind of buttons and supply the most important fashion stylists. some of the buttons are a real piece of art