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Il Mondo di ZULLO

A glimpse into the atelier.

Steel becomes fire becomes colour becomes road. Each frame moves through three rooms and many pairs of hands before it leaves Castelnuovo del Garda. These are the photographs.

Act I · Officina

Steel becomes form.

Forty-five hours per frame. Columbus tubes are cut against templates Tiziano has refined over fifty years, mitred until the joins are millimetre-perfect, then welded one bead at a time. The rainbow on the metal isn't a finish — it's the heat of the torch made visible. A single frame takes shape over weeks at the bench.

Act II · Verniciatura

Steel becomes colour.

In a separate room, Michele takes the bare frame and layers it slowly — primer, base coat, ZULLO mark, final clear. Each pass dries, is sanded back, painted again. Three to four days of patience for a finish that lasts decades. When he hands it back, the steel has acquired a second skin.

Act III · La Strada

Steel becomes road.

Polished, packed, and posted. From the atelier in Castelnuovo del Garda, ZULLOs leave for Verona, Singapore, Tokyo, Wales, the American West, and quiet roads we'll never see. Where a workshop ends, a long road begins. These are some of the places our frames have arrived.

Every ZULLO is a conversation in steel — a craft, a colour, and a long road. Want to see yours photographed in the atelier?

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