History - Favret Mosaici Artistici

“…The largest repressive operation took place on the night between the 4th and 5th of March, when the republican militia captured 63 people in Versilia who were suspected of helping the Allies and supporting the Partisans…”. Luciano Favret was one these people. The quote is taken from “Dalla Versilia a Sarzana – La morte di Gino Lombardi e Piero Consani, Comandanti Partigiani” (From Versilia to Sarzana – Gino Lombardi and Piero Consani’s death, Partisan commanders), a document published by ANPI (The National Association of Italian Partisans) of Seravezza and Sarzana on the 60th anniversary of the Liberation. Luciano has always been against Fascism. He exploited the symbolic icon of the totalitarian regime during the Second World War just to survive.

But soon he received the news of the birth of his son, Fabiano, and returned to Italy with some unsold works. One of these is still present at the Favret workshop. Paolo, Luciano’s grandson, who now manages the workshop, shows the painting with the utmost discretion and keeps it turned backward.

Paolo Favret is always very busy in the workshop. He prepares the orders, visits suppliers of the precious marbles located nearby, and schedules the daily work with the other craftsmen. Then a group of schoolchildren arrives to visit the workshop, and afterwards a photographer for a project explaining craftsmanship promoted by an important body. The life of a mosaicist is more intense and chaotic that one might imagine. He often works late or travels to the other side of the world for an on-site inspection or to oversee the installation of large works. Though after much work, there is the joy of the final result that he share with the people he loves.

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FAVRET MOSAICI’S HISTORY

The company managed by Paolo Favret has a long history. Paolo inherited this artistic and cultural heritage from his grandfather Luciano. Many artists have worked in his workshop and important commissions followed one after the other. Like any family history, Favret Mosaici’s history is rich in anecdotes.

The story goes something like this: Luciano’s wife was pregnant. However, the war makes no distinctions or concessions: it impoverishes everyone. In a period of economic hardship, Luciano made some mosaic portraits of Hitler and went to Berlin to sell them.

But, like all objects that survive over time, the portrait also has its own history, bearing testimony to a difficult period for Italy and the world, where misery and the deranged vision of the armed struggle spared no one.