Edil Design and Artesanos Don Bosco
A combination of traditional craftsmanship and innovative technologies

Mirko Codenottis's interview, Architect and Art Director.

Can you briefly introduce us your company and your production?

Artesanos Don Bosco
The “Familia de Artesanos Don Bosco” is a non-profit association that supports skilled artisans trained in our schools. Over the years, numerous churches in South America, as well as in the United States and Italy, have been furnished and decorated with artworks including wooden and stone altars and ambos, main altars in carved wood, repoussé brass tabernacles, wooden and stone sculptures, wooden or repoussé copper doors, baptismal fonts, mosaics, and stained-glass windows. All liturgical furnishings and decorative works are entirely handmade. Each object, created by our master craftsmen, is a unique work of art that embodies the dreams and hopes of every artist and artisan of the Andes.
Edil Design In Art
“In Art” is a new workspace by Edil Design, combining professional experience and training, artisanal tradition and innovative technologies. Through the art of repoussé and chasing—very ancient techniques in metalworking—we create unique and customized works. Noble metals, fascinating materials since ancient times, have been artistically worked since antiquity to create ornamental objects or standalone works of art in copper, brass, and silver.

How do you assess the current situation and future prospects of the Italian market for religious articles?
In Italy, the sale of religious articles entirely made by hand is facing many difficulties in the market compared to the past. This is due to competition—often unsustainable—with the same works produced using advanced technologies (CNC machines, pantographs, 3D printers) and therefore sold at significantly lower prices. Despite this, we believe in the possibility of continuing to defend handmade art, which is capable of giving works the uniqueness they deserve, especially as sacred objects, and which cannot betray the soul that an artist is able to convey through creativity and craftsmanship.

The fifth edition of Devotio is approaching. What do you expect from this fair?
A wonderful opportunity to engage with other organizations working in the same religious-artistic field, to get to know each other and grow through the individual experiences of each.

Will you be presenting anything new at “Devotio 2026”? What might that be?
Artesanos Don Bosco will present a representative work from each of its specialties (a carved wooden altar depicting the 12 apostles, a repoussé and chased brass tabernacle with an inlaid mosaic, a stained-glass window depicting the Assumption of Mary into heaven, a carved wooden crucifix, a Botticino stone station of the Way of the Cross, a mosaic depicting the Virgin Mary Help of Christians, a crucifixion in glass paste, and several sacred silver and micro-mosaic jewelry pieces).

Edil Design In Art will present a series of repoussé and chased copper and brass panels featuring Crucifixes, Tau crosses, and five panels depicting the Canticle of the Creatures by Saint Francis on the occasion of the eighth centenary of his death.

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