Filippo Catarzi. Intrecci da capogiro. Cento anni di creatività e abilità

The straw hats from Florence, known in Europe as chapeaux de paille d'Italie and in the world as "Leghorn hats", are the remarkable production of the Signa (Florence) community. The firms working in this sector are numerous and many of them can boast a hundred-year-old activity. Among them is also the Catarzi family company that this year celebrates its hundredth anniversary in the same place where it was founded. It is a happy occasion and the Museo della Paglia e dell'Intreccio joins in the celebrations by welcoming in the Eventi section of the Testi e Studi series, this volume published by the Catarzi family which retraces the history of the family and of their enterprise by setting it in the more general background of the history of artistic handicrafts. In the hundred-year span of its activity, the company, which has its seat in Via dei Colli, has put its fortune on a sound basis, employing generations of workers, and still continues to attract a very large clientele, in line with the vitality and production quality typical of the enterprises of our plain.