Initiative

OMA Artisanal Excellence Award

To be held on 16 June, in the complex of San Micheletto in Lucca, seat of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, the award ceremony of the Premio al talento artigiano e alla produzione di qualità 2018 (2018 Prize for artisanal talent and quality production) dedicated to Giampietro Maracchi. Fifty Italian artisans will receive awards. OmA, after honoring the Florentine workshops of artisanal excellence, over the years has extended its acknowledgement of quality to craftsmen of the entire national territory, offering its associated Foundations the possibility of signaling the excellences of their own territories. For the occasion, the guidebook of the OMA artisans will also be presented.

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EVENTS

100 years of glass: Nason Moretti of Murano

An exhibition celebrating the prestigious milestone reached by the Murano glassworks Nason Moretti, which was started in 1923, is underway at the Murano Glass Museum. Since its inception, the furnace turned special attention to glass for the table, characterized by intense colors. Glassware, which became icons of 20th-century glass art, is presented, such as the […]

18/05/2023 - 06/01/2024

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Museo Ginori in Doccia is online

The Ginori Museum, which as of 2019 is part of the “Fondazione Museo Archivio Richard Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia,” is still closed to the public, but can be seen online, (museoginori.org), because it “already has so many stories to tell,” not only as a place that preserves a vast artistic and archival heritage, but […]

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The restoration of the stained glass window with the Risen Christ in the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna

The rose window, the upper part of the large four-light window in the Chapel of Santa Croce, in the Bolognese basilica was made between 1464 and 1466. The preparatory cartoons were made by the painter Michele di Matteo and the stained-glass window executed by the master glassmaker and German Dominican friar Jacob Griesigner, later to […]

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La Grande Bellezza by Starhotels at Artigianato e Palazzo

“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 […]