Events12/10/2022 - 09/01/2023
It is entitled Primitivo, the winning work of the second edition of the award wanted by Starhotels, born from La Grande Bellezza, a project of contemporary patronage to which the prestigious Florentine hotel group gave life in collaboration with Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte, Associazione OMA - Osservatorio dei Mestieri d'Arte and Gruppo Editoriale. The work, created by Andrea Bouquet, a refined cabinetmaker from Turin, was chosen by Elisabetta Fabri, President and CEO of Starhotels, from among the 10 finalists indicated by the Jury, which included important names from the world of international design and architecture, such as Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano, Marva Griffin Wilshire, founder and curator of SaloneSatellite, Barnaba Fornasetti, creative director of Fornasetti, and Sara Ricciardi, designer and Art Director of Starhotels La Grande Bellezza collections. 164 submissions from artisans between the ages of 22 and 85, active in every region of Italy. Many historical ateliers participated, as well as young masters: the quality of the proposed works is very high, where the collaboration between designers and artisans often appears, between tradition and contemporaneity. Numerous techniques are used and materials are in the field: terracotta, ceramics and porcelain remain among the first positions for the realization of decorative and furnishing objects that can be well reconciled with the hotel sector, but also fabric, carpets, iron and copper, felt, paper, plaster and scagliola, wood, polycarbonate. Also for this edition, the first-place winner received a major cash prize in the amount of €10,000. All the finalist works of the prize, this year dedicated to the theme The Beauty of Nature, are featured in an exhibition at the Rosa Grand Milano - Starhotels Collezione hotel until January 9, 2023.
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 […]
