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Montelupo Fiorentino celebrates the age-old tradition of glassmaking, begun in the nearby village of La Torre in the seventeenth century, and dedicates a statue to the figure of the master glassblower, the protagonist of an activity that, together with ceramics and terracotta, has always distinguished this town of the lower Valdarno. The bronze statue created by sculptor Piero Bertelli, cast using the lost -wax technique, has been donated by the Vetreria Etrusca company. It depicts a master glassblower standing on a convex base composed of fragments of colored glass, an allusion to the structure of a furnace and to the chromatic intensity of Murano glass which, especially in the 20th century, greatly influenced the production of the Empoli area.
“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, […]
