This is the third edition of the biennial title of MAM-Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere, created by Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte in collaboration with ALMA-La Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana. The aim of this initiative was to create an independent “Master of Art” title, to enhance and bring to the attention of the general public […]

The collaboration between the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and Van Cleef & Arpels continues with the exhibition Pierres précieuses – from September 16, 2020 to June 14, 2021 – which recounts the multi-millennial history of minerals revealing the ability that Man has demonstrated for centuries to enhance their splendor. Through an immersive […]

Back to Seravezza – from September 20 to October 11, 2020 – “Le Mani eccellenze in Versilia” focused on the artisan alphabet. Organized by the Cna of Lucca, with the collaboration of the Fondazione Terre Medicee and the Department for the Promotion and Valorization of the Territory of the City of Seravezza, the event reaches […]

On October 29th, at the Gallery of Palazzo Coveri on the Florentine Lungarno, the first stage of the exhibition of the winners of the PREZIOSA YOUNG competition will be inaugurated, featuring 7 young emerging artists selected by an international jury for their inventive abilities in the materials used, in the techniques used, in the proposal […]

During all the fifty-six days of the quarantine Ugo La Pietra and Corrado Levi, in a spontaneous and completely autonomous way, worked on notebooks with texts, drawings and sketches, recording their moods, reflections, emotions, landscapes granted by the narrow space of a window or balcony. Ugo La Pietra, between March and May, wrote stories in […]

Etruscan art and craftsmanship are the protagonists of an exhibition visible until May 31, 2021, at the MANN in Naples. About 600 works of various types offer an evocative story of this people who settled in the lands of Campania and the Mediterranean panorama from the tenth to the sixth century BC. The artefacts conserved […]

The Museo del Tessuto di Prato presents, until October 25, 2020, sketches and about 30 dresses designed by Massimo Cantini Parrini for the film Pinocchio by Matteo Garrone and made by Sartoria Tirelli, the historical company Costumi d’Arte Peruzzi, started in Florence in the early nineteenth century and then moved to Rome, and Cospazio 26. […]

For 26 years the Associazione Giardino Corsini, engaged in Florence in the enhancement and protection of the quality of Italian and international craftsmanship, organizes and promotes the exhibition market Artigianato e Palazzo (Crafts and Palace), under the guidance of the creators Giorgiana Corsini and Neri Torrigiani. Every year, a selection of about one hundred of […]

The project “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di Eccellenza” (One School, One Job. Percorsi di Eccellenza), conceived and supported by the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte in Milan, has been promoting for 10 years now the inclusion of young talents in the world of high artistic craftsmanship, financing extracurricular training internships in the workshop, for […]

Fine works stolen from churches, convents, but also from private Tuscan and Umbrian collections, are the protagonists of an exhibition set up in the hall of the Niches of Palazzo Pitti, made possible by the results of an educational laboratory conducted by the School of Specialization in Historical and Artistic Heritage of the University of […]

The exhibition, set up at the Museum of Fashion and Costume in Palazzo Pitti, extended until September 20, 2020, traces an itinerary on the role and function of Roman shoes: from the sturdy spiked military shoes, to the sophisticated sandals of patrician ladies, which made the female foot seductive, to the sturdy men’s shoes stopped […]

The young Milanese luthier Stefano Bertoli, with 2259 votes, is the winner of “Artigiano del Cuore 2020”. Thanks to the votes obtained by the Wellmade community, Stefano will be able to realize his project at the end of the fundraising, which the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte will organize on the platform Rete del Dono. […]

In Florence Spazio NOTA launches Il Passaporto dell’Artigiano (Craftsman’s Passport), a new project dedicated to children and learning art crafts. Until July 31, virtual workshops are active by artisans, schools and designers so as not to stop travelling with imagination and to travel and build with all materials an itinerary to multiple destinations divided into […]

Finally #RaccontiArtigiani is on Spotify! The podcast tells, through the voices of the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestireri d’Arte staff, stories of craftsmanship, excellence and know-how; reading excerpts from the Foundation’s publications in collaboration with Marsilio Editori, IdeaBooks and Carthusia, or articles about the masters published in the magazine Mestireri d’Arte & Design and the online […]

The joint action of the Italian Schools of Arts and Crafts launched by ALMA, the International School of Italian Cuisine and supported by Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, continues with tenacity and with good results to date. The appeal of this network of institutes of excellence to national and regional institutions for a reopening in […]

Extraordinary situations require extraordinary initiatives: the 2020 edition of the Artigiano del Cuore competition, promoted by Wellmade, aims to concretely support Italian artistic craftsmanship in this emergency situation. For this year’s winner a fundraiser will be organized, the proceeds of which will go to constitute a cash donation for the individual craftsman up to 5. […]

Talking about brothers Carlo and Giovanni Moretti means discovering the ductility and variability of glass, the innovations offered by design, experimentation, innovation, but also understanding, and often anticipating, trends in taste. The scenario is a synthesis between Murano, with its history, and the innovative ferment of Milanese culture of the early fifties, already anticipated in […]

Paolo Penko, Gabriele Maselli and Matteo Locchi are just some of the OMA artisans who have joined the #lamiabotteganonsiferma appeal. Protagonists of video pills from their shop or home, they react to the economic crisis by talking about their business. Click here to learn more.

The Museum of the Twentieth Century, inside the Palazzo dell’Arengario in Piazza del Duomo, Milan, was created with the intention of spreading knowledge of the art of the twentieth century and to allow a better and wider vision of the collections that Milan has inherited over time. Alongside the exhibition activities, the Museum is committed […]

As part of the La Grande Bellezza Project, Starhotels announces a biennial award with the aim of enhancing the extraordinary know how of Italian master craftsmen. Italian craftsmen regularly working in the area can present their candidacy, proposing works on the theme “A source of light”. The Prize is intended to recognize the talent, competence, […]