Good Morning Enzo Good Morning Barbara What are you doing? Today, I am working on specific work of serving trays that will be delivered to American customers So, you are telling me that from this piece you will make a serving tray? Yes, this will become serving trays For example This one, it's already finished even if the design is different but, they will become also serving trays like this one Ok, So you start from here to get here..
Actually, I don't start here but I start from my drawing So is this your drawing? Yes, this is one of my drawings let's say that before to start we first think about the decor that we would like to have for trays, frames & boxes all the other objects we are going to inlay and after that, we choose about 15-16 different colours at the base, we have white maple wood and many other colours like red, blue, light blue & green they also have the base of maple wood but but as you can see they are coloured mainly because in nature we cannot find coloured wood blue or red Got it, so this is a treated wood Yes, exactly Ok, so this one, for example, is actual wood? Yes this is actual wood And is it clipped? Ok, so let me explain Once we choose our colours we assign a number to every single piece mainly because in geometric designs a piece can be the same as the other and in the assembly phase is essential to know the location of each piece So you have a pattern? Yes, absolutely Once you complete this process We choose the design and we start the actual Inlay works with this specific hacksaw of 1mm this is the phase Yes, this is really thin But think that this is a number 1, We also work with a number 0 or -0 thinner than this one wow, even thinner than this one imagine it's similar to one hair Once we complete this phase which is the most important one the entire composition is done by this hacksaw and it's all made only by hand we don't use any laser or similar technologies wow so it's all made by hand Yes, absolutely even the last phase? because I think this is the last phase of polish, right? Yes, even the polish is all made by hand through a splash but yes, always by hand Yes, this is what makes unique this product we don't use any laser, everything made by hand we like to say that the products are imperfect they are not perfect and this is a unique point, right? Yes, exactly Yes and imagine that many tourists that visit Sorrento are looking for this kind of crafts product They are not mass produced every product is different from another *Music from the Inlay wood box* Wow, this is amazing! It reminds me of my childhood the little boxes that my father and my grandfather they always loved it so actually let me ask this Enzo for me as a local, the Inlay art I always think of these colours the shades of wood so like the brown so my question is, why today you are working with these many beautiful colours? Ok, this is a million-dollar question many of us locally, in Sorrento We always associate the Inlay wood art with floreal patterns so the typical Sorrento's Inlay tradition which was born during the eighteenth century so the traditional one, right? Yes exactly, from the eighteenth century Yes, exactly Instead, We wanted to make something special, following always the same Inaly tecnique but we started to bring a new project and innovative ideas decor and designs leading to love our products Not only to a particular group of people like 50-70 years old but we also want to make young people fall in love in fact our products since they are so colourful they easily adapt to different home decors so we can actually say, that this is a version 3.0? of Inlay wood art, like a revisiting Yes is an evolution is an Inlay evolution but always following the old tradition Enzo, who is this person? This person is the one who gave me the passion for the Inlay art and is my father Good Morning, I am Biagio Good Morning, I am Barbara Enzo, so you actually work together, right? We can say this is a Family business Yes We work most of the day together and all the fine products are made with our love Ok, so do you have the same task? No, not really We work and we have different tasks I am the one who creates my father instead is much better in terms of execution OK, so you take care of the creative side and your father the technical one Yes, exactly Thank you Enzo Thank you Barbara *Torn a Surriento*