On display is a unique selection of tools, drawings and original artefacts, coming from the collections of Palazzo Mozzi Bardini, which enter into dialogue with the civic collections of the Stefano Bardini Museum. Among the most significant objects, visitors will be able to admire refined wooden inlays, fronts of chests dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, paper models, furnishings and individual elements intended to give shape to the Renaissance style, as well as the original workbench of the laboratories, restored for the occasion. An evocative reconstruction of the Bardini carpentry will then be presented, which will allow you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the historic workshops, where the set of tools that belonged to the Florentine cabinetmaker Orlando Chiarugi, founder of a workshop still active in the restoration of wood, will also be exhibited.

The very rich collection of wooden objects and works of art preserved in Palazzo Mozzi includes an important nucleus of constituent elements of furniture, seats, consoles and other furnishings, as well as decorations of frames, friezes and corners of chests restored and produced on a large scale. quantities in the Bardini laboratories. These artefacts - restored or integrated, but also created from scratch according to the style of that period - fully responded to the needs of a rich international clientele, fascinated by the art of the Italian Renaissance and by a taste which, through objects, furnishings and costumes, aspired to recreate atmospheres and settings of a lost time.