Bellini's Antique Italia

Home & DécorOwner Verified

About

Established in 2002, Bellini's Antique Italia in Encinitas's Westlake Design District directly imports Italian antique furniture, lighting, and decorative arts spanning the 17th century through mid-century from suppliers along the Arno River corridor in Florence and across Tuscany. The showroom stocks Murano glass chandeliers, Venetian gold-gilt mirrors, Renaissance-style Florentine dining sets, and Impruneta terracotta garden pieces fired from the region's signature iron-rich clay, an Italian design lineage that connects to the Tuscan culinary tradition at Firenze Trattoria on South Coast Highway 101. Container shipments arrive directly from Italy to the Westlake Street warehouse, bypassing domestic middlemen and maintaining provenance documentation on each piece. Deruta majolica garden tables, hand-painted frescoes transferred from wet plaster onto canvas by Umbrian artists, and Italian hardwood flooring tiles supplement the antique furniture inventory, providing full-room sourcing for designers at firms like Blue Poppy Design in the Encinitas market. A 1stDibs seller since 2015, the gallery also lists authenticated pieces on the international platform. Inventory includes hand-carved walnut credenzas with dovetail joinery, Empire-period armoires with original gilt hardware, and 18th-century chestnut refectory tables authenticated by stylistic period and wood-species analysis.