Rinaldo Barbetti

In 1841 the Barbetti family moved to Florence and he worked with his father who was a successful wood carver.

[1] His father Angelo Barbetti ran one of the most successful Wood carving shops doing work for wealthy Europeans, including Anatoly Demidov and the Rothschild family.

[3] At night he Rinaldo Barbetti worked as an apprenticed under designer Ulysses Owens carving picture frames.

[5] His design was also used on the Italian lira currency for the 1943 banknote known as the Grande M or Mille Lire.

[1] The woodwork in the library of Les Ambassadeurs Club was completed in the Florentine studios of Rinaldo Barbetti.