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A young seamstress who makes wedding dresses and a producer of artisan footwear are the winners of the fourth edition of the OmA twenty-to-forty contest, organized by the Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte (Agency for Artisanal Trades) of the Fondazione CR Firenze. The jury of experts awarded first prize to Miranda Di Sipio, a debutante seamstress from Florence who specializes in the production of wedding dresses and who is about to open her own studio. Indeed the € 5,000 prize is earmarked for the purchase of equipment and for advertising. The second prize is granted for a personalized consulting plan in the areas of marketing, public relations and financial strategy in collaboration with Euroteam Projects (an intermediary agency for the Erasmus Entrepreneur program): this year’s award went to Olivia Monteforte, a custom footwear maker from Pesaro.
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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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 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 – 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 […]
