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Feel the Yarn is the competition for aspiring designers from the world’s most prestigious fashion schools and aimed at supporting talented people in the knitwear field. This year’s competition, whose theme is Knitting Time, will be attended by 26 students coming from 13 major international fashion and design schools, and by 22 Italian yarn mills, coordinated by Consorzio Promozione Filati and taking part in Pitti Filati- from June 29 to July 1, 2016- to introduce their Fall/Winter 2017-18 collections. Feel the Yarn is the result of the “Programma Speciale Fiere Pitti Immagine 2016”, promoted by Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana and carried out with the contribution of MISE and Agenzia ICE within the project that supports Italian trade shows and “Made In Italy” products.
“La Grande Bellezza – The Dream Factory”, progetto di mecenatismo contemporaneo per l’alto artigianato artistico, promosso da Starhotels in collaborazione con Fondazione Cologni, OMA-Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte e Gruppo Editoriale, dopo il grande successo di pubblico ottenuto al Fuorisalone milanese 2023 sarà in mostra al Giardino Corsini (15/17 settembre, Firenze) con un allestimento inedito: il […]
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As of September 4, applications are open to participate in “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di Eccellenza” (One School, One Job. Pathways to Excellence) the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte’s training internships project. All public and private schools and training institutions in the artistic crafts sectors are invited to send in applications from their best […]
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From Sept. 15 to 17, from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Corsini Garden in Florence, “Crafts and Palace. Artisan workshops and their commissions” will give life, also in this XXIX edition, to a new visual narrative revealing different perspectives of savoir faire through the dialogue of the great protagonists of this 2023: Métiers […]
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In this year, the artist and the Manifattura Fornaci di San Lorenzo, in Borgo San Lorenzo, Mugello, are the protagonists of initiatives that follow one another to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Galileo Chini’s birth and the variety of his work among painting, ceramics, stained glass and architectural decorations that express, although with different materials, […]
