Recognized, wanted and appreciated for over a century, the expertise of Massaro workshops reunites several arts and crafts, often unknown. Each requires patience, control and experience nurtured over time. Their discovery enables to follow, step by step, the creation of an exceptional shoe.

After taking the measurements, he writes all the necessary aesthetic information to make the wooden last, which will be used as the base for the shoe creation.

It takes four to six hours to sculpt in beech and hornbeam wood.

Once the order is delivered, it will join the Massaro records, rich of 6,000 pairs of lasts, all scratched with the name of their owners and preserved since the early twentieth century.

Then, the Last-maker designs the insole (the part which will be under the last during the assembly of the shoe) and heel.

The Clicker is in charge of drawing the pattern on the last sculpted by the last-maker.

His work must be very precise and meet certain proportions, vamp and quarter height to stick as close as possible to the sketch.

From the drawing, the Closer assembles the cut skin parts and builds the upper part of the shoe.

The Assembler marries the upper part of the shoe and the insole.

This step requires great delicacy and a meticulous hand: curved and stretched over the last, the upper part of the shoe should perfectly match the lines of the last to give birth to an impeccably fitted shoe.

Meanwhile, the assembler also shapes the interior components of this upper part: counterfort, wings toe puff.

Clean, polish, make a patina... no thread, no lining millimeter that could tread over escapes the Finisher’s careful eye.

Thus adorned, the shoe is ready to be delivered.

Thirty hours at least are necessary to give birth to a pair of pumps. And it takes nearly fifty for a pair of men's shoes.