Factory settings

Celine crafts its celebrated 'Triomphe' handbags against an inspiring backdrop of lush Tuscan countryside

- SCARLETT CONLON

If accolades were handed out for inspiring workplace views, then there would be few more worthy recipients than the Celine factory in Radda in Chianti.

Nestled in the Tuscan hills, 30km north of Siena, the 5,200 sq m concrete, steel and glass structure rises from its small nook in the lush Italian countryside to provide 360-degree panoramas to the 300 artisans working on the fashion house’s factory floor. Such is the exceptional natural beauty surrounding them, that it makes the item they are crafting all the more fitting. For it is here that Celine’s most celebrated object of beauty, the ‘Triomphe’ handbag, is brought into existence every day.