Parenti Firenze Magazine

2025 The Year of The Snake

The Year of the Wooden Dragon ended the 29h January to make way for the Year of the Wooden Snake. But what exactly are we talking about?

Stoke on Trent and Minton: English porcelain of the 19th century

The production of ceramics and porcelain historically finds its deepest origins in certain regions of France and England; from these places a knowledge of the material and its workmanship arose so profound that even today products with such origins are synonymous with beauty, quality and consequently adorn our homes.

One of the homelands of ceramic work is Stoke on Trent itself.

Sculpture: Daum "Paloma" di Nathalie Seguin

Nathalie Seguin, born in Angers in 1964, being the daughter of a painter, since childhood has always enjoyed transforming materials, such as wood and silk, and then turning to clay.

It is with this medium that she has been able to extract the most emotion, movement, beauty and sincerity.

René Lalique and The Baccanthes

Lalique's career was a crescendo until the second half of the 1920s when he took part in the "International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts" in Paris (1925) as a glass artisan and representative of the Art Déco movement. 

ART OF THE TABLE: Haviland "Magnolia" Exhibit II

ART OF THE TABLE: Baccarat "Mille Nuits" Garden

Immersed in the Tuscan Countryside, among Olive Trees and Cypresses the Baccarat Crystal rises in Light, Beauty, Transparency and Luminosity.

The attunement and harmony that is the basis of our life can be observed in the conjugation between the natural environment so perfect and the Baccarat Crystal that enhances with splendor and magnificence the setting and environment that belongs to all of us.

ARTE DELLA TAVOLA: Baccarat "Mille Nuits"

A splendid table. of great elegance and lightness: Everything lights up, illuminating...everything shines, shining.

This splendid conjugation of artistic Baccarat crystal and artistic silver expression of Puiforcat, and spectacular silver cutlery .... also transmits to us who live and observe it, an intense harmony of sounds ...

This splendid conjugation of artistic Baccarat crystal and artistic silver expression of Puiforcat , and spectacular silver cutlery....transmits even to us who experience and observe it, an intense harmony of sound ...

ARTE DELLA TAVOLA: Alberto Pinto "Champignon" Collection II

A Splendid joyful and colorful table, rich in quality and art, reflects the colors of autumn when the various types of mushrooms make our hills even more alive.

From the hand-painted plates, the wonderful "Amelia" Tumblers, the natural cutlery in perfect harmony, the flowers in the center of the table, the "Tourbillon" Vase".... everything transports us to the world of warmth, companionship and beauty.

ARTE DELLA TAVOLA: Albero Pinto "Botanique"

From a characteristic Florentine terrace Parenti presents a wonderful new table to be carefully observed and admired in its various details because it is truly the details that create with harmonious synthesis what the history of the Parenti Store and its tradition, want and desire to express.