MARCO FINARDI is a graphic designer from Cremona, he has always been fond of traditional shaving and tobacco pipes.

 

In 2013 he decides to create the perfect brush for himself as he wasn’t satisfied with those on the market:

"Passion is the resualt of originality and uniqueness above all. Having something truly mine, perfectly unique and one of a kind, was the driving force that inspired the creation of the Marvin shaving brushes".

 

The inspiration comes from luxury pipes: Marco Finardi uses only the finest Italian briarwood mixing the purest Silvertip badger hair , exclusively made for him by a Florentine craftsman.

He personally follows the whole process, visiting the sawyer in Tuscany and Liguria, and selecting only the best briarwood pieces to work by hand, without the lathe, creating every time original and unique shapes. 

The briarwood is exclusively coloured with natural ingredients, and afterwards the handle is plunged for several days into the finest citrus scented Tung Oil. This treatment keeps the briarwood waterproof. After drying for several days, the handle is polished with increasingly fine pumice powder. Finally to guarantee a further protection , the handle is polished with pure Carnauba Wax .

 

The result is a precious object, extremely pleasant to use which satisfies good taste and sense of beauty. Each brush is a unique piece of rare value, there are no identical copies, in fact every piece comes with its own numbered warranty, autographed and sealed with wax.  

A masterpiece of patient and refined Italian craftsmanship.