Before everyday objects were industrially produced in series, even banal dishes were necessarily the result of the union between mind and hands. A trait that today belongs to artisanal products, intended as the result of sophisticated know-how and not mere necessity. What is created with the imagination and then made by hand, the “unique piece”, is at the center of a rediscovery today even at the table. Driade, Cassina, Porro, Kartell, are just some of the names of the made in Italy design who have decided to focus on this segment, finding ancient techniques, unusual materials, and sometimes giving a future even to communities in difficulty, which in their use of hands find new dignity.