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  Maniera is a beautiful shop. Or rather, it is a large workshop with many masters who do not work but who meet here to show off their best products. It is as if they want to challenge each other, face-to-face or side-by-side, in a civilized but fierce match which does not necessarily require a winner and reminds us of the origins of a handicraft tradition of high standards. Naturally, this Tuscan tradition, which is still inspired

 
 

 by forms transmitted by ancient handicraft workshops, brings to the forefront that periods and styles and changes in taste do not exist when the result obtained goes well beyond a brief span of time. What this implies is that even today a plate of travertino, an elegant piece of pottery

 

with archaic stylistic elements or a wrought iron bed entirely made by hand, can be extremely modern if made with the same manual skill of a thousand years ago. Daniela Tozzi Ryan, a pure Sienese, or as she defines herself, a ‘Tuscan from Siena’