Enrico Bartolini, a Tuscan from Pistoia, has worked tirelessly to climb the ranks of the industry—despite this never being his primary goal. He curated the menu for the preview of a Stefano Ricci collection in the enchanting setting of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, marking the beginning of an ever-closer relationship with the Florentine family.
“Recognition was never my original ambition, my first ambition is to build good connections. Among these, I have met Stefano Ricci and the Ricci family, and I found much joviality, joy of living and a taste for finer things. Luxury, for me, is about allowing yourself an unnecessary, yet expensive, pleasure. The important thing is the coherence between the pleasure of those who create it and those who receive it”
Like a careful orchestra conductor, he is conscious of the authentic roots of his work: “Putting trust and one’s emotions into someone else’s hands, in a professional team, that is true luxury, and so finding empathy and being led allows the guest to be taken towards the best that those people, the work team can achieve”.