Until 4 November, at the Museo del Bijou in Casalmaggiore you can visit the exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest masters and designers of costume jewelry: Kenneth Jay Lane. A celebrity of American costume jewelry who in Providence took his first steps towards a career filled with satisfaction and success, becoming a worldwide style […]

Set up in the lower church of the Basilica of St. Francis, an exhibition that traces the changes in fashion from the early 1900s to 1960 through the presentation of a selection of clothes, accessories, photographs, paintings, magazine illustrations, but also a careful choice of objects that have become icons of society’s transformation. The exhibition, […]

The fourth edition of the LVMH group’s Journées Particulières, an initiative created in 2011 thanks to the impulse of Antoine Arnault, will take place on 12, 13 and 14 October 2018. 56 Houses open to the public, 77 exceptional places – 40 of which have never opened before – located in 5 continents. In Italy, […]

Montelupo Fiorentino celebrates the age-old tradition of glassmaking, begun in the nearby village of La Torre in the seventeenth century, and dedicates a statue to the figure of the master glassblower, the protagonist of an activity that, together with ceramics and terracotta, has always distinguished this town of the lower Valdarno. The bronze statue created […]

The LOEWE Craft Prize, an international recognition promoted by the LOEWE Foundation to celebrate excellence in modern artistic craftsmanship, reaches its third edition. “Craft is the essence of LOEWE. That is where our modernity lies,” says Creative Director Jonathan Anderson, inspired by the company’s beginnings as a craft cooperative in 1846. The areas of interest […]

Until 6 October, the Galleria Rossini in Milan is hosting the exhibition “metaMORFOSI,” an exhibition of jewels selected during the “Jewellery metaMORFOSI” competition held this past spring in Gorizia. The aim of the competition was to establish a link between craftsmen and various materials, creating a narrative in which wood, fabrics and plastics could create […]

On the occasion of the important event “Homo Faber: Crafting a more human future,” promoted in Venice by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, Starhotels, in continuing its “The Great Beauty” project, has organized at the Splendid Venice – Starhotels Collection hotel, symbol of the most exclusive hospitality, a refined exhibition of works by […]

In the context of Fragranze, the event dedicated to artistic perfumery to be held at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence from Friday, 14 September to Sunday, 16 September, there will be guided tours to the Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica of Santa Maria Novella, in Via della Scala 16, a magical place that since 1612 has continued its […]

To be held from 14 to 16 September, in the former Real Collegio of Lucca, the third edition of LuccArtigiana, the promotional fair of Lucca’s quality handicrafts. The initiative, conceived and implemented by the Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca together with Confartigianato, CNA Lucca, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca and the Municipality […]

Through its new Bando Artigianato call for project proposals, the Fondazione CON IL SUD (Foundation for Southern Italy), in collaboration with the Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte (OMA), which carried out the research, is making 800 thousand euros available to support some of the excellences of Southern Italy’s artisan tradition that are in danger of disappearing. […]

A solo exhibition by the contemporary ceramic artist Anders Herwald Ruhwald, the first Italian museum exhibition dedicated to this Danish sculptor, presented by Casa Museo Jorn and Officine Saffi. The works, fifteen in all, were created specifically for the event and the house museum: in fact, the works dialogue perfectly with the interior and exterior […]

An interesting overview of the work of Ugo La Pietra curated by Italo Tommasoni, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Giancarlo Partenzi, which traces the multiple fields of investigation of the architect, designer, teacher, editor, researcher and tireless experimenter. The concept of the exhibition is that of a “continuum of form and time,” subdivided into thematic groups […]

From 18 August to the end of October, several masterpieces from the Duomo of Siena and the Museo dell’Opera will be exceptionally on view. These works are lesser-known, but attest to the refinement of ancient techniques such as marble inlay using local stone: the grey of Montagnola, the yellow Broccatello, the green of Crevole.

The International Ceramics Festival & Market-Fair held in Faenza from 31 August to 2 September is now in its tenth edition. Launched in 2008 as a derivation of the French edition held in Aubagne, near Marseille, since 1991, the Faenza event has become one of the leading festivals of European ceramics. This year it will […]

From 13 July to 30 September, at the Centro Polivalente San Carlo, the Tuscan company Giannoni & Santoni, which for years has combined know-how and new technologies, exhibits three works from the collection created with the world-renowned photographer from Pistoia. The collection, presented for the first time in Florence at the Galleria dell’Accademia delle Arti […]

The 48th edition of the Abruzzo artistic craft exhibition in Guardiagrele, a town in the province of Chieti, is underway. At the Palazzo dell’Artigianato visitors can immerse themselves in finely-crafted Italian goods, including tapestries, gold, wood, stone, ceramics, embroidery, weaving, glass and graphics. Don’t miss the exhibition “DesignLoci”, the result of a national competition organized […]

Until September 2, at the Vicenza Jewellery Museum, is the exhibition “Gio’ Pomodoro’s jewels: the line and the ornament”, an exhibition entirely dedicated to the production in gold of one of the leading artists on the twentieth century scene, moved by the modern concept of the “artist’s jewel” as an accomplished work of art. A […]

After the first fortunate edition (2017), the Ceramic&Colors Award in Faenza successfully returns once again. This year the theme was “Thick crystals, poems in glass”, in other words, a technique that can be used both at low and high temperatures. During the firing, the crystal melts and causes “flooding” on a surface with a border, […]

The vase as an archetype that tells the story of different civilizations, and its contemporaneous evolution alongside that of art history. In the exhibition, internationally renowned vases on loan from public and private collections are displayed next to locally produced vases dug up in historic excavations, as well as contemporary works, taking the workshops, artists and […]

The exhibit Caducità winds through the spaces of the MIDeC (International Museum of Ceramic Design) from July 15 to August 19, 2018. Curated by Irene Biolchini, it is an anthological journey through three different generations of Italian artists who work with ceramics and begin their work with the fragment in an attempt to create a […]