On 14 December 2018, the third biennial at Vicenza’s Museo del Gioiello jewelry museum was inaugurated with an entirely new selection. The third edition can be visited until the end of 2020: 310 unique and exclusive exhibits, 9 curators and 9 rooms, each of which presents a different meaning of jewelry, in a kaleidoscope of eras, geographies, contents and origins. They represent jewelry as Symbol, Magic, Function, Beauty, Art, Fashion, Design, Icon and Future, each room entrusted to an internationally renowned curator who has interpreted the meaning through extraordinarily beautiful and priceless items of jewelry. At the entrance, the "Flora High Jewelry" series by Bulgari, selected by the Museum Director, Alba Cappellieri, as the emblem of the third edition.
On May 27, 1923, the Salsomaggiore spa complex, designed by Ugo Giusti and decorated by Galileo Chini, whose 150th birth anniversary falls on this day, was inaugurated. It is a grandiose work that reconciles memories of art nouveau, with suggestions of the Viennese secession, with motifs already in Deco taste and oriental enchantments. The exhibition […]
27/05/2023 - 17/09/2023
EVENTSIn the evocative space of the former Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte, now the Cathedral of the Image, theater of Arte Immersiva, the volume Gioielli a Firenze-Jewels in Florence was presented. Fratelli Peruzzi Archive 1880-1970, edited by Bianca Cappello, published by Livorno-based Sillabe Publishing House. Patient cataloging has returned drawings, plans, notes, photos, and […]
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The Venetian Glass Archive, established in 2012, which is based on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, was recently moved to the recently restored 16th-century Sala Messina, located in the Cypress Cloister next to the exhibition aera “Le Stanze del vetro,” which has been the scene of important exhibitions for years. The Glass Study Center […]
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From May 13 to July 9, 2023, MIDeC International Museum of Ceramic Design, in collaboration with Triennale Milano, presents “The SCI, Italian Ceramic Society at the 1st Biennial Exhibition of International Decorative Arts in Monza, May 1923.” A celebration of an anniversary: at the prestigious venue in Laveno Mombello, in the province of Varese, the […]
13/05/2023 - 09/07/2023