Market trader · costume jewellery · semi-precious stones · resin · Murano glass · FI

L’Arte di Creare

The two of us, for over fifteen years

The stall at the street market: displays of necklaces, earrings and bracelets on a table dressed in red
  • Drawn sign of the L'Arte di Creare stall: handmade costume jewellery, travelling stall
  • Where to find the L'Arte di Creare stall: at fairs and events
  • The LA monogram of L'Arte di Creare: handmade costume jewellery, Florence

What is on the stall

Artisan jewellery in semi-precious stones, pearls, crystals, Murano glass and resin.

It's made by two people — Antonella Dondoli and her daughter Cristina Ulivi — and they have been doing it for over fifteen years.

On the stall, very different pieces sit side by side: coral and stone necklaces, long strings of beads, pendants, butterfly brooches, and the resin earrings — blue, orange, ivory roses — which are the most recognisable part. The resin earrings are personalised on the spot, while you wait. For children there are bracelets with the letters of their name.

The stall has no fixed round of squares: it goes to fairs and events, and the calendar changes each time. There is also a shop with walls — L'Arte di Creare, in Piazza Vittorio Veneto 1 in Porretta Terme.

The photographs

A butterfly brooch in light blue and blue wire, with a pearl and small rhinestone leaves
Six oval pendants on a cord, each in a colour: blue, yellow, red, black, white, pink
A red coral necklace on a display stand, with the workshop's tag beside it
Earrings with a blue resin rose and an openwork gold post, set on a wooden stump next to the tag
Earrings with an ivory resin rose and a worked silver post
Five long bead necklaces, from black to aquamarine, lined up on a wooden surface
A bead bracelet with the letters of the name, on a girl's wrist

The company

L’Arte di Creare. Antonella Dondoli and her daughter Cristina Ulivi have been making handmade costume jewelry for more than fifteen years: hardstone, pearls, crystals, Murano glass and resin. The business, L'Arte di Creare, dates from 2012 and is based in Firenze. The stall travels between markets and fairs, in Tuscany and beyond.

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