STATO Martinelli Bespoke Shoes was founded in 2016 by Paolo Martinelli, a young shoemaker from Lake Garda (Italy) who, after several years of apprenticeship, decides to take by the lake the old tradition of the handmade and made to measure italian shoemaking.
In STATO Martinelli you can find ready to wear handmade shoes or you can order a bespoke pair of shoes choosing your personal shape, model, leather and other components to your liking.
Moreover, you can bring your shoes for restoration, resoling, polishing and everything concerning high quality shoe care.
The goal of Paolo’s work is to grant quality and concern for detail, which only a totally handcrafted product can reach.
The realization of a bespoke shoe can take months and in this period of time the artisan and the client work together for the creation of a unique and inimitable result. Starting from the dreams and needs of the client, the craftsman Paolo Martinelli is able to create the shoe that will last over time.
The making of a pair of bespoke shoes is a process of creativity and skillfulness that can take several months. At the heart of the process is the relationship between the client and the artisan who is there to make his/her wishes become a reality. On the first meeting, the artisan Paolo Martinelli takes measurements of both feet of the client and on these he will create the one of a kind shoe last. At the same time, the client can let is fantasy loose and chose the components of the shoe:
but also more personal choices as color of the stiching, height of heels, brogue and medallion.. A fitting shoe is created, allowing, on the one hand, the client to get a sense of how the shoe will fit and look and, possibly, revise some aesthetic preferences, and, on the other hand, the artisan to take the final measurement and check for even the slightest pressure to the foot. Once the fitting shoe is approved, the artisan Paolo Martinelli begins the crafty and somehow magical process of turning natural materials into a refined and unique object. After few weeks, the artisan will deliver the shoes to the client. The shoes come with the shoetree and personal shoecare instructions.
We collect and deliver all over Europe.
The Atelier STATO MARTINELLI is in Via Rambotti 13 Desenzano del Garda (BS -Italy). Here you can find the artisan’s workshop, the Bespoke area where measures are taken and components (leather, model, accessories,..) chosen, and the Show Room where you can buy your ready to wear shoes and leather accessories (belts, wallets, document folders).
Via Rambotti 13, Desenzano del Garda,
25015 Brescia Italy
+39 328 873 3641
