ARS & MECHANICA

The Atelier and the Workshop

Impalpable gold leafs, silver, copper, Swarovski elements, metal flakes, powder of pure pearl, transparent colors for windows...
and more: engravings and graffiti, charcoal traits and iridescent airbrushed veilings...
The list of inexhaustible painting techniques can, and must, know no limits.

Without continuity solution in the atelier every potentiality is experimented, we create and work with constant enthusiasm in exploring the infinite universe of art history with its technical and semantic developments.

Today there are many methods to assemble and decorate a machine, we think of the automatic assembly lines and low cost materials as well as the finishes obtained with stickers, decals or the recent water print; but the way of Berkel and Unexpected-Custom is the most difficult but the most prestigious.

In complete antithesis with easy market solutions, the search for perfection translates into an obsessive attention to detail and is achieved only thanks to a production that is still today all artisanal.

Like a splendid Attic vase, these flaming machines are decorated by artists who use their refinement to transfigure them into elective surfaces.

The enthusiastic staff of the historic Berkel workshops, as masters of the renaissance memory workshop, contributes to forging every single mechanical piece, specially prepared for the artistic intervention, with expertise, precision and care of every minute detail.