From 16 to 20 March 2020 Spazio NOTE will host the new tailoring course aimed, on the one hand, at recovering the original dress of the Historical Procession of the Florentine Republic (already depicted by Titian in the famous painting La Bella exhibited at the Palatina Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence) and, on the […]

For the first time the MIC-Museo Internazionale delle ceramiche in Faenza hosts the works donated by the scholar and collector Giorgio Levi. An exhibition of 35 pieces decorated with airbrush from the 1930s. The first examples of the airbrush technique applied to ceramics date back to the modernist climate of the Weimar Republic and the […]

BLOGS & CRAFTS was founded in 2014 on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the “Artigianato e Palazzo” exhibition, to enrich it with a contemporary look at young people and the importance of finding a dialogue between tradition and multimedia and this year sees the precious support of Fondazione Ferragamo. A jury will select […]

With this project the Centre for Conservation and Restoration “La Venaria Reale”, in collaboration with Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT, wants to preserve and make available a heritage of images of great historical, artistic and cultural interest. This heritage is part of the Archive of Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, one of the most important and well-known […]

To valorize and promote the world of high Italian craftsmanship. This is the aim of the project La Grande Bellezza – The Dream Factory, Starhotels‘ new initiative of contemporary patronage, strongly supported by the Group’s President, Elisabetta Fabri: “I have had the privilege of living in Florence, the cradle of beauty, of the art of know-how. I have breathed in […]

10 enthusiastic students can become Cultural Heritage Restoration Technicians in the extraordinary context of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. The three-year course has already begun the first hours of lessons, but there are still a few places available which can be assigned within, and no later than, the end of February […]

A new course, entitled Lavorare il cuoio. Tecniche base di disegno, taglio e modellistica(Leather Working. Basic design, cutting and modeling techniques) will be held from 24 to 29 February 2020 at Spazio NOTA. Taught by Stefano Parrini Degl’Innocenti, the course, with lessons in three languages (Italian, English and Spanish), is addressed to people without specific […]

At the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, in collaboration with the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, a spectacular exhibition is currently being presented in the rooms of the Appartamento Reale, combining the charm of 18th-century theatre with the delicate refinement of Capodimonte porcelain. The music of composers of the time, adapted to the […]

On 17 January, the exhibitionArtigianato e Design(Craftsmanship and Design) will be inaugurated at the showroom of L’Idea di Maria Luisa Amatoriin Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, where it will remain on view until 2 February. A true step into beauty, amidst the historic shops of the city center, in an ideal circular route around a […]

In its eleventh edition, the new “Natale SottoVetro” exhibition presented at the Museo dell’Arte Vetraria Altarese in Altare (province of Savona). This year the exhibition project is dedicated to theMemphisGroup, a design collective founded in Milan in 1980 by Ettore Sottsass. The aim of the group was to go beyond the Modernism of the 1970s, […]

An exhibition dedicated to one of the most important figures in women’s ceramics: Antonia Campi, known as “Neto” to her friends. The pieces on display come from the private collections of two passionate collectors, namely Marco Lisè and Anty Pansera, critic and historian of the applied arts, who has dedicated an important monograph to this […]

In this exhibition, one section is dedicated to the costume designer, his sources of inspiration and his creative work through videos, fabric samples and historical garments from his extraordinary personal collection, used as sources of direct inspiration for the creation of the clothes in the film. A second section includes the exhibition of more than […]

Currently on view in Naples, the exhibition Hidetoshi Nagasawa.Sotto il cielo e sopra la terra, is curated by Anna Imponente, director of the Polo museale della Campania, and realized with Paolo Mascilli Migliorini, director of Palazzo Reale, in collaboration with the Fondazione CAMUSAC-Cassino Museo D’Arte Contemporanea of Cassino directed by Bruno Corà, with the precious […]

Massimo Sansavini returns to Florence with a new research, the result of his work over the last two years centered around magic, myths, mysteries and other stories. The project, created for the Galleria del Palazzo, includes twenty-two works ranging from mosaics for the execution and restoration of ancient copies as well as for the creation […]

“A jewel serves to remind us that we dream, design, create and work because we love. And Van Cleef & Arpels, born from love and poetry, always revisit love and poetry,” as Franco Cologni writes in his book Elogio della mano, dedicated to the Maison and to the luxury jewelry trades. The Van Cleef & […]

Until January 26, at the Casina delle Civette in Rome you can visit the anthological exhibition dedicated to Roman goldsmith Maria Paola Ranfi, who skillfully shapes matter into truly precious sculptures. The exhibition presents a selection of 60 works created between the 1990s and the present day: an excursus divided into several collections, from Art […]

In 1950, Pablo Picasso sent a plate with the image of the dove of peace to the Museum of Ceramics (MIC) in Faenza, heavily damaged by the bombings of 1944. Other ceramic objects with archaic and mythological subjects followed, including the large vase (65 cm) Le quattro stagioni(The Four Seasons), decorated with sinuous female figures […]

The Ceramics Museum of Mondovì will host – until 15 March 2020 – the exhibition Le tramedi Raffaello.Il restauro dell’arazzo Madonna del Divino Amore del Museo Pontificio di Loreto(Raphael’s Weavings. The restoration of the Madonna del Divino Amore tapestry from the Pontifical Museum of Loreto) which anticipates the upcoming celebrations to be dedicated to the […]

The Ragghianti Foundation of Lucca hosts, until 6 January 2020, the exhibition Bernardo Bellotto 1740. Viaggio in Toscanathat brings together works, paintings and drawings by this 18th-century Venetian artist, many of which are unknown or rarely presented to the public. The exhibition presents paintings that document views of Tuscan cities, particularly Lucca, but also Florence […]

The Poldi Pezzoli Ateliers, artisan workshops for adults realized by the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte in collaboration with the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, are proposing three appointments, between November and January, during which master craftsmen will put their knowledge at the disposal of the participants, who will learn to make a small artefact. […]