1881 • 2026

We have ledgers and stamps, notebooks and faded photographs, international awards and tools that have passed through highly skilled generations of craftspeople. But what we guard with the greatest pride are small, repeated gestures. The vivid ones of our fathers, whom we admired as wizards of steam.

From Laurenzana to Bitetto, from the Foggia sites to foreign markets. From Giuseppe to Rocco, from Raffaele to their grandchildren, with tireless vision and a search for know-how. The Marone family has marked the history of Italian hat making around the world, working the softest felt, the finest straw and the most precious fabrics on endless pattern archives.

That black-and-white nineteenth century seems very far away; instead it is the becoming in our hands. Unchanged and revolutionised every hour in the design offices, in the production workshop and on the display shelves. Today new shapes to compose and the unthought weaves of future goals are being born.