“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Center for Glass Studies has placed online the archive of the “Vetreria Seguso Vetri d’Arte,” which includes more than 30,000 images including plans, drawings, sketches, historical photos, furnace registers and precious, as rare as they are, catalogs made between 1933 and 1973 that document the collaboration of artists and designers, including […]

In the area of the inner courtyard of the Palazzo della Rovere, or of the Penitentiaries, in Rome, near St. Peter’s Basilica, stood Nero’s Theater. Architectural remains and objects of value and common use have emerged. In that place, which the sources hinted at but had not been identified, the emperor organized theatrical and singing […]

Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte is a donor of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The International Exhibition, which can be visited until 26 November 2023, accompanies visitors and enthusiasts through the exhibition spaces of the Arsenale and Giardini and towards the other projects set up in the various places in the […]

The call for tenders for the project “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di Eccellenza” for the 2023/2024 edition: the collection of applications will open on Monday 4 September and will close on Friday 29 September 2023. All information is available on unascuolaunlavoro.it. “Are the Crafts of Art in danger? There are those who say it, […]

An imposing ceramic fountain, which recalls the shape of the ancient cattle troughs, is installed in Capalbio for the fifth edition of the Hypermaremma contemporary art festival. The work combines the artistic sensitivity of Giuseppe Ducrot, the technical expertise of the Gatti workshop in Faenza and the suggestive background of the Maremma countryside. The fountain […]

Lino Tagliapietra’s works surprise for their beauty, for their shape, delicate and solid at the same time, for the chromatic choices that give life, in a constant renewal, to the mysterious, intriguing charm of glass. And it is this sensory involvement that is summarized in the title: Lino Tagliapietra, glass as a journey and a […]

A corollary of the 100% exhibition. A centenary and a hundred pieces: Richard Ginori and Gio Ponti in a Lavenese collection, the MIDeC of Laveno presents an exhibition project, A fairy tale in ceramics and glass: the dialogues of Margherita (Grasselli) and Pinocchio (Massimo Lunardon), which gives rise to an atmosphere of magical and poetic […]

The International Museum of Ceramic Design (MIDeC) in Laveno Mombello celebrates Gio Ponti’s collaboration with the Richard-Ginori Manufacture in Doccia at the first Monza Biennial in 1923 with an exhibition with a captivating title. The event aroused the interest of critics and the public for the choice of unusual shapes and decorations typical of Gio […]

It has happily concluded after four years of activity “AD HOC. Strategies to counter dispersion,” a project selected by the social enterprise Con i Bambini, coordinated by Cometa Formazione and co-financed by the De Agostini Foundation. The Project has been able to count on a varied network of partners in the area: schools, parishes, foundations, […]

Costanza Macrì and Monica Candido, goldsmiths and owners of the artisan business and workshop CosMonique Gioielli, are the winners of Artigiano Del Cuore (Artisan of the Heart) 2023 – 6th Edition. After being selected as finalists along with 9 other artisan enterprises, it was the community, through online voting, that chose them as “Artigiano Del […]

Visitabile negli spazi dell’ADI Design Museum di fino al 10 settembre, la mostra fa riferimento alle ricerche di Ugo La Pietra sul rapporto individuo/ambiente e in particolare lo spazio collettivo urbano. Fin dalla fine degli anni Sessanta, La Pietra ha indagato il territorio urbano, espressione formalizzata delle contraddizioni della vita sociale. Dalle periferie (Gradi di […]

132 works by the Turin-based manufacturer Lenci were donated to the Royal Museums by collectors Gabriella and Giuseppe Ferrero. They are works made by various artists between 1928 and 1936. Beyond the variety of subjects and the aesthetic pleasantness of the figurines, the exhibition expresses the modernity of the European avant-garde and the solid references […]

The Museum of Eighteenth-Century Venice at Ca’ Rezzonico, a seventeenth-century palace acquired in 1935 by the Municipal Administration of Venice, reopens after restoration work in the reception spaces on the ground floor that anticipate the visit with a striking room overlooking the Grand Canal. The collection, which includes paintings but also objects and furnishings from […]

The tapestry, made of silk and silver and gold threads preserved in the Vatican Museums, reproduces Leonardo’s famous fresco in Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It was given in 1533 by Francis I of France to Pope Clement VII, Julius de’ Medici, for the wedding of his son Henry of Valois to Catherine de’ […]

Artisans are protagonists of added value in the Italian economic system: support their talent with a simple donation, indicating the Tax Code of Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte in your tax return: 97155080159. With this small gesture you can help concretely promote the activities of our Foundation in favor of the “intelligent hands” that create […]

The flood that hit Emilia Romagna in recent weeks has severely damaged the city of Faenza and its many workshops, workshops, ateliers and studios of ceramic artists throughout the city. Great masters and small artisan businesses that carry on an ancient craft, of inestimable historical-artistic, territorial and identity importance, have suffered irreparable damage. For this […]