EventsMilano Grand Tour is a journey through Milan’s artistic craft shops. The new project by the Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte Foundation, along with tour operator Elesta Travel, offers tourists and locals alike the chance to choose out of five different tours through the best of Milan’s artisan production. Paper, leather, stringed instruments, metals and jewelry are the threads that connect some of the city’s applied arts museums (Poldi Pezzoli, Bagatti Valsecchi, Castello Sforzesco and Ambrosiana) to the local craft shops where know-how is born. The tours are tailored to customers’ requests. For booking: www.elestatravel.it
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 […]
