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Our Story

La Storia.

The PRESTAZIONE story in three chapters — how the atelier began, how each paddle is built, and why the series ends at 888.

Origine
Chapter I
Our Story·Chapter I·5 min read

How it began.

A retired Milanese racket-maker named Armando hands Giuseppe Falaschi a prototype he has been building for two years. Giuseppe plays with it for a week, returns to the workshop, and asks if he can make more. Armando tells him: "Make it slowly, make it right, and make few." The first PRESTAZIONE paddle leaves the atelier in September 2024.

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La Bottega
Chapter II · 8 min

The bench in Isola

Four benches, four craftsmen, one paddle at a time. The room above a courtyard in Milano's Isola district where every Prima Serie is built.

Il Numero
Chapter III · 6 min

Why 888

A thing made slowly cannot be made many. The discipline of the closed series, and the vault that keeps every number for life.

L'Inizio
Coming next · 2027

A second series begins

What comes after the Prima Serie. A new edition, a new shape, still made in the same room.

Letters from the atelier.

A new essay, roughly once a month. No product announcements, no sales, no tracking. Just writing.