EventsAcross Art and Fashion is the new exhibition organized by the Ferragamo Foundation and the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, running from May 19, 2016 to April 7, 2017. Conceived and curated by Stefania Ricci, Maria Luisa Frisa, Enrica Morini and Alberto Salvadori, the exhibition involves, in addition to the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, the collaboration of a number of prestigious cultural institutions: Florence’s National Library, Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti’s Modern Art Gallery and Costume Gallery, the Marino Marini Museum and Prato’s Textile Museum. Among the pieces on show are the evening dress designed in the thirties by Elsa Schiaparelli with the collaboration of Salvador Dalí, on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the dress designed by Yves Saint Laurent and inspired by Piet Mondrian, from the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent; the triptych by Yasumasa Morimura, La source, from the Takamatsu City Museum of Art; the installation of photographic portraits by Andy Warhol, Altered Images, on loan from Paris’s Studio Makos; and the work Fertility by Keith Haring, from a private collection.
On the occasion of the 2024 edition of Salone del Mobile, Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte is pleased to present the eighth edition of “Doppia Firma. A dialogue between design and artisanal excellence” a project developed with Living, the interiors, design and lifestyle magazine of Corriere della Sera, under the patronage of the Michelangelo Foundation […]
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Milan hosted the first Made in Italy Festival: the new Eccellenza Artigiana initiative that connects students with the opportunities offered by the Italian economy of “high quality savoir-faire”. Fondazione Cologni has been an institutional partner of the event and presented to the young audience the project of training internships “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di […]
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Nominations for the Starhotels Award, now in its third edition, closed on Friday, March 22, 2024. The chosen theme, “Souvenir of the Grand Tour”, has aroused great interest in the artisan world: many nominations were received from all over Italy, with very different types and often highly original interpretations. After screening by the prestigious Jury […]
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Composer Gustav Mahler said that tradition “is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” An image that seems to fit Naples perfectly: not only because of its relationship with a tradition so famous that it has become iconic, but also because of the vital substratum that pulses beneath the heart of this […]
