Savoir-Faire
SAVOIR-FAIRE, CRAFTSMANSHIP AND GREAT ATTENTION TO DETAIL INSPIRING LUXURY AND TOTAL QUALITY
Fine materials, unique details and refined decorative motifs are essential tools in the search for beauty. But to give them shape and harmonious substance, one needs a savoir-faire rooted in tradition, and which is now enhanced with the latest technologies. Indeed, all Mastro Raphaël's fabrics are produced by highly skilled artisans who have been chosen for their unique ability to perfectly convey the company's aesthetic and artistic innovations.
High-quality tailoring is the basis for the matelassé fabrics, cotton piqué, special silks, macramé or three-dimensional embroideries, and of course Mastro Raphael's impeccable interpretations of linen - as in the Villa Paolina collection designed by Gian Battista Vannozzi - or introducing handmade prints on bright velvets in the style of Mariano Fortuny.
MASTRO RAPHAEL IS A CRADLE OF CREATIVITY THAT HAS CONCEIVED A GENUINE HISTORY OF STYLE
Objects, colours and materials: the place where Mastro Raphael's founder, Mario Arcangeli, has always loved to turn his ideas into reality is a vibrant creative kaleidoscope.
This wunderkammer is the starting point for the artistic impulse that is transformed into the finest materials, thanks to the skills of a highly qualified team. In other rooms dedicated to taste, the embroidered motifs are designed and the material's cuts and colours are decided, particularly the neutral shades that represent one of the company's identifying features.
THE ART OF SLEEP, EMBROIDERED WITH A SOBER, TIMELESS ELEGANCE. MADE OF DISCRETE LUXURY AND DETAILS OF PURE CREATIVITY
Textured fabrics, each with a voice of its own: from the most classic piqué to brilliant velvet, from lustrous sateen to fresh Egyptian cotton, from crisp silk to lightweight linen. Surfaces that shift with the light, with the season, with the hand of whoever touches them.
The bedlinen collections are the essence of Mastro Raphael's creativity and experimentation: they express most fully the idea of harmony built through accumulation, through choice, through care. A set of elements to coordinate — sheet sets, duvet covers, quilts, quilted bedspreads, bedspreads, decorative cushions — in which each piece holds its own and gains depth in dialogue with the others.
DELICATE AND SOFT, DRAPERIES ARE VERY PRECIOUS CANVASES ON WHICH LIGHT CAN WRITE ITS THOUGHTS
Designing interiors, playing with light and carefully modulating its sources, shapes the perception of space and creates poetry. First among them, natural light — filtering through windows and then captured and diffused by curtains: not blocked, but directed, transformed into living material within the room.
Curtains hold a special place in the Mastro Raphael range: the company was the first in Italy to reimagine them in the living, pliable material of linen.
And indeed, the name of the first collection is Il lino, le tende — The linen, the curtains: a title that is already a manifesto, in which the two terms call to each other as if by natural necessity. Made in a textured linen gauze, almost a rustic byssus — byssus being the rarest of fibres, drawn from sea molluscs and long a symbol of natural, essential preciousness — that collection proposed precisely that held-back, vibrant light that interiors need in order to breathe. Still in use today.
FABRICS, A VIBRANT AND FLUID MATERIAL FOR CONCEIVING A PERSONAL ARTWORK IN ONE'S OWN LIVING SPACE
Piqué, lightweight linen, plain or canneté silk — a fine-ribbed silk with regular vertical cords — sateen and taffeta, plain faux velvet, heavyweight cotton… the sense of touch awakens before the fabric collections of Mastro Raphael. A tactile quality sought through specialist finishing processes designed to amplify softness and hand feel; and enhanced by embroideries, applied details, reliefs, rhythms of void and volume.
Characteristic of all the fabrics is a deliberately neutral colour palette, played across the scales of beige and natural tones on which Mastro Raphael has built its image from the very beginning: a recognisable chromatic signature, alongside calibrated touches of blue, red and grey.
BATHROOM COLLECTIONS. REINVENTING EVERYDAY ACCESSORIES WITH SOPHISTICATION AND SARTORIAL SKILL.
The bath collections bring to the most private room in the home the same manufacturing care that distinguishes Mastro Raphael's bedlinen.
The softness of the terry — in combed cotton, for superior absorbency and lasting durability — defines the towels, bath sheets, bathrobes and fingertip towels; and is underlined by the precision of raised embroideries and applied details drawn from tradition and reinterpreted through a new artistic vision: borders, inserts, finishing touches that make each piece immediately recognisable.
RUGS, SMALL TOUCHES OF ELEGANCE UNDER OUR FEET
Among the textile furnishing accessories of Mastro Raphael, the pure cotton rugs hold their own place: made with a specialist process that gives them a dense, pleasing tactile quality — the same pursuit of surface that runs through the entire production of the brand.
Restrained and elegant, these accessories are defined by designs of clean geometry — modules, grids, linear sequences — whose purity is underlined by an entirely natural colour palette, played across tones of beige, grey and white. To give every room of our lives a designer touch.
THE TABLE RITUAL DRESSED IN TACTILE AND ELEGANT MATERIALS
An elegant dinner, a casual breakfast outdoors… The ritual of the table is a moment of conviviality in which everyone finds their own way to express creativity.
The restrained lines and natural colours that underpin the Mastro Raphael furnishing range carry through into the table collection too — tablecloths, place mats, napkins — essential yet refined in their details, in materials that make the difference. Such as the linen and cotton: luminous and fresh, able to bring to the table that natural lightness no other fabric quite delivers. Or the hemp: woody and pleasantly tactile, a fibre with a long Italian tradition, resilient and characterful, growing softer with every wash without losing its personality.