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 […]

At Palazzo Colonna, in the heart of the capital, the investiture ceremony of Fondazione Altagamma’s 2023 Honorary Members was held on Monday, May 15. This recognition, inaugurated in 2002 by Leonardo Ferragamo, welcomes into the prestigious Altagamma ecosystem women and men, companies and national and international institutions that have contributed to promoting Italian excellence and […]

On May 27, 1923, the Salsomaggiore spa complex, designed by Ugo Giusti and decorated by Galileo Chini, whose 150th birth anniversary falls on this day, was inaugurated. It is a grandiose work that reconciles memories of art nouveau, with suggestions of the Viennese secession, with motifs already in Deco taste and oriental enchantments. The exhibition […]

In the evocative space of the former Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte, now the Cathedral of the Image, theater of Arte Immersiva, the volume Gioielli a Firenze-Jewels in Florence was presented. Fratelli Peruzzi Archive 1880-1970, edited by Bianca Cappello, published by Livorno-based Sillabe Publishing House. Patient cataloging has returned drawings, plans, notes, photos, and […]

The Venetian Glass Archive, established in 2012, which is based on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, was recently moved to the recently restored 16th-century Sala Messina, located in the Cypress Cloister next to the exhibition aera “Le Stanze del vetro,” which has been the scene of important exhibitions for years. The Glass Study Center […]

From May 13 to July 9, 2023, MIDeC International Museum of Ceramic Design, in collaboration with Triennale Milano, presents “The SCI, Italian Ceramic Society at the 1st Biennial Exhibition of International Decorative Arts in Monza, May 1923.” A celebration of an anniversary: at the prestigious venue in Laveno Mombello, in the province of Varese, the […]

On the website dedicated to the project “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di eccellenza” the profiles of the trainees of the 2022/2023 edition are available online. Discover the faces of the 25 young protagonists: among these master craftsmen of tomorrow, some come from countries such as France, Estonia, Romania, Venezuela and Peru and have found […]

Kicking off the 6th Edition of ” Artigiano del Cuore,” a competition promoted annually by the Cologni Foundation and the Wellmade platform. This 2023 edition is dedicated to artisans and artisan businesses that carry on an art craft, and are based in Lombardy. The winner or winner of the Competition, who will be chosen by […]

The exhibition, which has just opened at the Prato Museo del Tessuto with the collaboration of the Fashion and Applied Arts Museum of Gorizia, presents 50 Kimonos, for men and women, dating within the first half of the 20th century, from the Lydia Manavello collection. The precious garments, made of textured, embroidered or printed silk […]

The prestigious venue of the San Domenico Museums in Forli hosts the exhibition The Art of Fashion. The Age of Dreams and Revolutions. 1789-1968, which traces the changes in the taste and art of clothing, both women’s and men’s, over a period of time between two emblematic dates: 1789 and 1968. It traces a path […]

More than 250 artifacts from the Strada family’s Scaldasole castle have been restored and assigned to the Vigevano Museum by the Ministry of Culture. The nucleus, which brings together artifacts from prehistory to the Renaissance, documents both the territorial history of Lomellina and the collecting passion of the Strada family, which began at the end […]