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in the year 1936 the Cirri family, originally hatters from
Tuscany, moved to Rome where they set up a handicraft shop
producing hats for gentlemen, ladies and children, as well
as for fashion houses, film studios and theatres – an
activity that never came to a halt and still enjoys momentum
today.
Recently
taken over by Patrizia and Pier Carlo Fabri, the Cirri family’s
concern has now been renamed "ANTICA
MANIFATTURA CAPPELLI"
This
company’s old shop premises can rightly be considered
a historical heritage. The Roman location at Via degli Scipioni
46 has never changed, both furniture and equipment being original.
Among the very few manual crafts still current, the ANTICA
MANIFATTURA CAPPELLI’s hat-making techniques are the
traditional ones of old, based on shaping hats by hand on
wooden moulds.
Generations
of accumulated knowledge find their counterpart in the daily
use of ancient tools. Most important among these is the shop’s
endless collection of wooden hat moulds: a genuine art heritage,
now enabling us to reproduce very wide ranges of hat models
dating from the early 1900’s to present days.
Our ANTICA
MANIFATTURA CAPPELLI specializes as well in exclusive “single-piece”
creations, with textiles often supplied by any individual
customer. We also deliver hats to fashion houses, to the film
and theatre industries, tour operators and air lines. When
quantities of serial-made hats are demanded, these are processed
on special pedal-operated benches, each hat being formed in
turn in heated moulds.
Thus,
the ANTICA MANIFATTURA CAPPELLI’s typical high standards
are readily recognisable. Each hand-made hat benefits by the
expertise of craftsmen who have been for a long time with
the Company and who still are at work in our laboratories.
With us, the two terms “Hand-made along traditional
methods” and “Made in Italy” are not mere
slogans, but solid warranties of top-most quality. |
