Est · MCMLII · Milano
N° 001 Maestri Calzolai

Refined
Craft.

Bench-made shoes shaped on wooden lasts and finished by hand in our Milano atelier — an inheritance of three generations.

Goodyear Welted
Italian Calfskin
Hand-Burnished
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Stefano Fabiani signature shoe
Stefano Fabiani craftsmanship
1952
— The House

Three generations
of Italian shoemaking,
from a single bench.

The Fabiani family has shaped leather in the same Milano workshop for seventy-three years. Each pair passes through one hundred and ninety-two hands before it is finished — lasted, welted, sewn and burnished — and only then does it earn its name.

Stefano Fabiani Master Cordwainer, Milano
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— Shop by Silhouette

The Five Forms.

Every silhouette in our atelier descends from a single tradition. Choose the form that suits the moment.

— The Bench

Two hundred steps.
One pair of shoes.

01

Selection

Only the upper third of full-grain Italian calfskin is selected. Tanned in Tuscany, aged for thirty days.

02

Lasting

Each upper is stretched and shaped over a hand-carved wooden last for fourteen days — never less.

03

Welting

The Goodyear welt is sewn by hand. A construction that allows the shoe to be resoled, indefinitely.

04

Finishing

Wax is applied in twelve coats and burnished with bone — giving every pair its singular patina.

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