This winter, my wife, Daniela, and I embarked on the fascinating yet challenging adventure of furnishing our new home. We furnished all the rooms with care, paying attention to quality but also to budget, like many families. For the living room, however, Daniela wanted a beautiful sideboard, a piece with a difference, the kind that would add a unique touch to the room. We searched furniture stores and online until Daniela stumbled upon Dario's website and his carpentry shop. She immediately called me, enthusiastic, telling me to visit the site because she had finally found the type of furniture she wanted. A little skeptical about the Provençal style Dario had showcased on his website, I nevertheless let Daniela convince me to visit the workshop, as Dario had suggested over the phone, to see his furniture and try to design the pantry together. The cabinet project was born one February afternoon from the combination of our ideas and the expert advice of Dario, who, from that first meeting, tried, with all the passion that shone through in his actions and words, to understand our needs. Since that afternoon, given the distance (we live in Piedmont), we haven't met in person, but there have been plenty of phone calls to finalize the details of the cabinet that was meanwhile being born in that workshop in the Mugello countryside. Finally, in early June, the moment for the long-awaited and desired pantry to enter the home arrived, and I watched it being assembled by the expert hands of Dario's collaborators, while Daniela was still at work. Dario had asked me not to look at the cabinet until it was completely assembled, but I was at home, so how could I… And as I gradually saw each door, a drawer, the display case being inserted… I felt a growing awareness within me that this pantry was truly something special, something unique and exciting, and I eagerly awaited Daniela's arrival to see her reaction. Daniela was almost breathless when she saw the finished cabinet, smiling and fascinated because its beauty went beyond anything she could have imagined. Dario's work, as we believe this piece of furniture should be called, is more than just a handcrafted sideboard; it's a work of art you can gaze at for hours, examining every detail, discovering all the unique features of the carpentry and its wonderful patina. Daniela and I can only thank Dario for what he's created and for the immense passion, attention, and sensitivity he puts into his work.

In our last phone call, Dario said something that will always stick in our minds: "The design, ideas, and experience I put into creating a piece of furniture only get me so far, then the piece of furniture takes its own course, and it guides me in the right direction." Hugs.

Looking for a ready-made crystal glass in the Internet, I stumbled upon the site of Dario by chance, if the case exists... and I stopped to admire all the beautiful furniture that builds, not understanding at first why his among all those present in the web were the most harmonious, balanced, kind of line, full of that "human" and true that today seems impossible to find.

Dopo vari scambi di mail, conferme sul lavoro da fare per i particolari ecco che me lo porta a casa ed io, appena guardo la mia bellissima cristalliera, non capisco più nulla… Esprimere a parole la sensazione avuta è difficile, lo può capire solo chi ha avuto nella vita un colpo di fulmine in amore, pancia e testa che non si tengono più, tutta me debordante di gioia, entusiasmo e meraviglia.

Qui non si parla solo di robustezza, capienza, abilità decorativa di un mobile, c’è qualcosa in più che fa la differenza, c’è la passione, l’amore per il particolare, la capacità di ascolto dell’anima umana che lui ha, dei sogni dentro ognuno di noi che lui percepisce, perchè i mobili che noi accogliamo in casa sono parte di noi e ci parla la morbidezza del legno, la delicatezza sapiente dei colori che lo rivestono accarezza e coccola la nostra anima, e possono essere solo di quel tono tra mille perchè tutto sia una melodia senza alcuna stonatura.

E la potenza robusta ma gentile dei ferri che chiudono il mobile, a permetterci di serbare quello che custodiamo di più prezioso e segreto nel nostro cuore. Spero che nel mondo ce ne siano altri di Dario, ma di questo va ringraziato sopra ogni altra cosa, del rispetto e dell’empatia con cui si dispone all’ascolto dell’animo di chi ha di fronte, traducendo con abilità tecnica, grande senso dell’equilibrio e dell’armonia, il bello che vive in ognuno di noi, così assolutamente importante per la nostra vita.

Se dovessi definire quest’uomo direi che è veramente non tanto un Mastro Falegname, ma un Maestro umano.

Caro Dario, l’arredamento che hai realizzato ha riempito i miei spazi vitali di favole a colori, senza le quali la mia dimora, in cui ti sei mosso con passionale maestria, non mi avrebbe mai reso veramente “felice”.

Un abbraccio forte

A few weeks ago, I went back to researching what's currently only in my head... I found the carpentry shop of a certain Mr. Dario Biagioni online. I immediately said to myself, "Let's check out this carpentry shop too... it'll be the same old thing I've seen over and over again for the past two years." I opened the link, saw the photos, and a chill ran down my spine, and my immediate thought was, "Hold on, everyone, this time we're here." With a sinking feeling of excitement, I drove straight to the place, daydreaming all the way. I got there and found myself in the yard of a small hamlet nestled in the countryside... convinced I'd come to the wrong place...

I was actually in the right place, and after I entered the first floor of this small farmhouse, a whole new world opened up to me... and I thought, "How is it possible that the habit doesn't make the man here?" From the outside, such a simple, rustic environment conceals a treasure trove of emotions, lights, and warmth... I didn't see any furniture or furnishings, I saw my vision... realized... I touched it firsthand... and it seems strange, but in just a few hours I'd already understood the enormous difference in certain details that, ignorantly, seemed obvious to me... what can I say about that garage with its exposed brickwork... other emotions flooded my mind... a completely different environment, yet in some ways even more fascinating... that furniture under the plastic tarps showed off all its class, yet it was only part of the finished puzzle... but my imagination had already made me see them in the home of that unknown client I'll never meet... dreams are wishes...