Five people from the same family, all in the atelier every day. Every knife that leaves the workshop carries the "Giagu" signature — not that of a single master, but of a continuity passed down the generations since 1985.
Salvatore Giagu
Barely twenty, Salvatore learns the trade from a village blacksmith. Later, together with Maria Rosaria Deroma, he opens the workshop that still carries the family name.
With it comes a way of understanding the work: nothing made in series, every knife made entirely by hand.
From the workbench comes the identity the house has kept for forty years: here a knife is not merely an object but an original, vouched for by the name and the mouflon struck into the blade.
Maria Rosaria Deroma
Maria Rosaria chose a trade that until then, in Italy, had been exclusively male. It was she who began frequenting a village blacksmith's shop, falling for the handcraft of the knife and drawing Salvatore in. Together they decided to start their own workshop, faithful to the traditional canons of making: every knife created from the raw material, without sophisticated machinery. In 1985 Maria Rosaria became, in effect, Italy's first female knife-maker — a historical fact recognised by numerous sector publications.
Adriano Giagu
Adriano grew up in the atelier before ever choosing it as his trade. An engineer trained at the Politecnico di Torino, he chose to return and carry on what his parents had begun. Today he works in the workshop, bringing a contemporary vision turned toward the future, with particular attention to new technological and media dynamics.
Letizia Giagu
After completing her studies, by choice, she went straight to work in the laboratory, following in her mother's footsteps and so embodying the female continuity of the craft in Pattada. Letizia tends both the making of the knife and the relationship with clients, with the same passion and care her parents passed on to her.
Aurelia Giagu
The eldest child of Salvatore and Maria Rosaria, she learns the art of knife-making and decides to turn it into jewellery in its own right. In 2018 Giagu Design is born: Aurelia translates the material of the knives into rings, necklaces and pendants, exclusive and of unique, original making. A parallel language that extends the family code beyond the blade.