Architect, artist, designer, theorist and writer, Alessandro Mendini (Milan 1931) is one of the dominant personalities – in full activity – in the history of the aesthetic project of the twentieth and twenty-first century. The book is the most complete work ever published on Mendini and collects the best of his work, offering a cross-reading […]

From December 10th 2016 to January 29th 2017, the city of Cremona dedicates a relevant exhibition to Janello Torriani, inventor and genius from the Renaissance, in the exposition rooms of the “Antonio Stradivari” Violin Museum. Promoters of this project are the city of Cremona, Fundación Juanelo Turriano, Fondazione Arvedi Buschini and Unomedia. Nowadays Janello Torriani […]

The much-awaited Bottega Ghianda finally opens in Brera, Milan: a magic place, dedicated to the love for wood and to the most excellent artisanal savoir-faire. After the great master cabinet-maker Pierluigi Ghianda, its founder, passed away, the Bottega was acquired by entrepreneur Romeo Sozzi, who nominated Michele De Lucchi as art director: the new shop, […]

The Accademia Galleries are enriched with seven new rooms can be set in the wing of the convent of the Canonici Lateranensi designed by Andrea Palladio, which add to the five open to visitors in May last year. It is a further important step towards the realization of the ambitious project of the Grandi Gallerie […]

After the success of the “first” at the Galleria Gruppo Credito Valtellinese in Milan, the great Italian exhibition of Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904), the photographer who “invented” the movement, influencing with its Degas images and artists of his time and anticipating the birth of cinema, come to the Galleria Credito Siciliano in Acireale, from […]

Since December 16, 2016 Fondazione Livorno hosts an exhibition of Renato Spagnoli which will remain open to the public and to schools, until 12 March 2017. Co-founder in 1964 of the Gruppo Atoma, with Bartoli, Graziani and Lacquaniti, with whom he exhibited in numerous galleries art and national reviews and reported in Bolaffi’s catalog, the […]

After its successful launch at Milan’s 2016 International Furniture Fair, the Doppia Firma exhibition landed in Korea. The exhibition was held at the Craft Trend Fair from December 8 to 11, 2016, organized by the Korea Craft & Design Foundation and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea. […]

The exhibition Twentieth-Century Italian Jewelry, curated by jewelry historian Melissa Gabardi and on show until March 20, 2017 at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, explores the history of Italian jewelry and its main figures. With over 150 works arranged in chronological order, some of which never shown to the public before, the exhibition pays […]

The “Grand Tour” of the Alabaster Leaning Tower (the world’s biggest alabaster work) continues. An “ambassador” of Pisa and Tuscany across the world, the Leaning Tower has been showcased in Moscow in 2011, in San Francisco in 2015 and now it has landed in Japan, where it will be on display for four months at […]

Art in progress Gallery of  Milan (Via San Vittore 13) hosts an exhibition that explores the fifty-year-long career of Gian Paolo Barbieri, one of the world’s most important and recognized fashion photographers. The exhibition, curated by Nikolaos Velissiotis, showcases 40 among the photographer’s best-known pictures, old gelatin-silver prints and Polaroid photos, in addition to some […]

Milan  welcomes the global village of the arts and crafts of the world. The Rho-Pero trade fair center hosts the 21st L’Artigiano in Fiera show. For nine days, thousands of artisans from all over the world will showcase their creations there. On show, the most traditional artisan skills, along with the propensity to innovation of […]

Milan’s Palazzo Reale hosts the exhibition “Gioielli alla moda”, curated by Alba Cappellieri, which explores the relationship between jewelry and fashion and its connection with Italian craftsmanship and beauty. From its origin to the present day, jewelry well describes the evolution of women’s taste and style, but also the innovation brought by the introduction of […]

Unlike most violins made by Antonio Stradivari and known for their grandeur of sound, the Messiah (1716) has never been played. The violin owes its fame to its amazing like-new condition, with the  varnish nearly intact, and it has set the stylistic benchmark for luthiers all over the world. Kept in Oxford at the Ashmolean […]

Preservation of artisans’ precious know-how, encouraging communication with designers, promotion of their visibility to offer new job opportunities: these are the goals that  the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship strives to achieve. Founded in Geneva by South-African entrepreneur Johann Rupert and by Franco Cologni, the president of Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, Michelangelo Foundation […]

www.well-made.it is the new platform which has been online since October 2016 and allows you to learn about the best Italian artisans, express an opinion on their work and write a review of their product quality and customized services. In a world where everything can be delivered directly to your doorstep (food, clothing, furniture),  Fondazione Cologni […]

An intensive 13-hour workshop devoted to the art of pleating will be held at the Pergola Theatre’s Costume and Scenery Workroom on November 19 and 20, 2016. The special guest is Plissettatura Milady of Florence, which has been doing pleating on any kind of fabric, leather, straw and material since the 1960s, always combining varied […]

Opera  di  Santa  Croce,  in the  Chiostrino  Antico space, hosts a thematic philatelic exhibition curated by the Italian Center of Thematic Philately on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1966 Florence Flood. In addition to stamps, the exhibition includes 4 limited-edition philatelic postcards. One postcard reproduces the xylograph that Pietro Parigi created in […]

Since October 16, Prato’s Textile Museum has been hosting The Garden of Delights, the first solo exhibition held in Italy by felt-maker Marjolein Dallinga. Fourteen large felt works, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s painting by the same name, come to life in the Museum’s exhibition rooms in a magic and surreal atmosphere by harmonizing them with […]

Jewelry historian and critic Bianca Cappello is the author of a beautiful book full of photographs that goes over the history of Italian costume jewelry from the Unity of Italy to the early 2000s. An expert in processing techniques and materials and in the evolution of Italian taste and costume, the author describes in detail […]

From October 9 to November 27, Monza’s Villa Reale houses an exhibition devoted to the famous master cabinet-maker from Brianza Pierluigi Ghianda, who passed away recently. The exhibition’s title , The Studio as a Symposium,  is an expression that the artist used to describe his own studio. The exhibition is curated by Aldo Colonetti and […]