From stationers to art workshops in Brera
How many of us are attracted by that good smell of tempera and paper trapped within the walls of stationery shops and art workshops? Brera is the perfect destination for this. Finding unique tools and endless inspiration is easy among the streets of the district that has hosted the most important artists of past and present centuries.
Every item purchased in these art shops and stationery stores acquires added value precisely because it is in Brera.
📍Pettinaroli – Via Brera, 4
📍Crespi – Via Brera, 28A
📍Fabriano Boutique – Via Ponte Vetero, 17
📍Rigadritto – Via Brera, 6
📍Pellegrini Bottega d’Arte – Via Brera, 16
The places
Pettinaroli
Via Brera, 4
This historic shop, now known for years as "Bottega Storica", was founded in 1881 by Francesco Pettinaroli, when he moved from Lake Orta to Milan. It was immediately born as a stationery shop with annexed printing and bookbinding workshop and in a short tim...
Cesare Crespi
Via Brera, 28/A
The company Cesare Crespi founded its origins in 1880. For four generations, the Crespi family has carried out its activity in the well-known quarter of Milanese artists, in Brera, collecting, in this century and beyond, appreciation and approval from a sel...
Fabriano Boutique
Via Ponte Vetero, 17
Fabriano Boutique was founded in 2000 inheriting the history of Fabriano paper mills, born in 1264. It is a brand of Fedrigoni Spa, that holds the whole line of Fabriano and designs and manufactures fine stationery items entirely in Italy, with flagship sto...
Rigadritto
Via Brera, 6
The first Italian stationery shop where you can find objects from all over the world.
A careful research makes Rigadritto a magical place in continuous evolution where you can always find new gifts.
Pellegrini Bottega d’arte
Via Brera, 16
Even today Academy students, artists and art lovers can still follow the same path as the photographers, intellectuals, painters and thinkers who have animated the Brera district since the second half of 1900, visiting the Pinacoteca, stopping at the histor...