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Il Pozzo, Cortona Tuscany -  Artisan Tuscan Gifts of all Kinds
Paintings of Tuscany, photographs of Tuscan sunsets, local leather artisans, many art and craft based products to a high aesthetic standard. Antique maps hand made stationery. The full range of shopping in Tuscany and great presents to bring Tuscany to you.
Il Pozzo located on the via Nazionale in Cortona. Follow the gentle strains of music down the little lane lined with photographs of local scenes, to this immaculately restored gem of a shop, complete, (as the name suggests) with the original well. This is a treasure trove of artisan products ranging from beautiful leather notebooks and bags to hand-made quill pens and extraordinary chess sets. When you get to  where the well is (Pozzo is a well) you enter a complex of vaulted cellars full of artisan products that make wonderful gifts. Leather, antique map replicas, photographs of Tuscany ceramics and much more. All with the Tuscan stamp of stamp of style and excellence on nearly everything they produce. Leather goods that Italy as a whole is known for, fashion, antiques, perfume, food and wine, photographic equipment, paintings, hand-made stationery, ceramics all on show. Shopping  for presents is made even more delightful by the "care about you" approach to customer service that Tuscans find second nature. Some of the artisan presents are below and there are more featured in the current the current Newsletter.

Refillable Notepad ld9

Hand made refillable leather book cover for a notepad with pencil, created in a small workshop in central Italy.

The leather used has been tanned exclusively with vegetable extracts and without using any harmful chemical substances, made with respect for  the ancient and noble Italian tradition of leather making.

Size 8 1/4 x 11 7/8
- 77.00EUR

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