The 6th Notebook of the Documentation Center on Contemporary Architecture in Tuscany (Cedacot) has just been published, collecting the proceedings of the conference held in Florence at the Academy of Fine Arts and the former Manifattura Tabacchi on November 18 and 25, 2021. The volume collects papers by various scholars who have long been interested […]
It is entitled Primitivo, the winning work of the second edition of the award wanted by Starhotels, born from La Grande Bellezza, a project of contemporary patronage to which the prestigious Florentine hotel group gave life in collaboration with Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, Associazione OMA – Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte and Gruppo Editoriale. The […]
12/10/2022 - 09/01/2023
Milano
unascuolaunlavoro.it, the new website of the project “One School, One Job. Pathways to Excellence” online from September 5, 2022. A new look, lots of new content. Throughout the month, and until September 30, Schools will be able to enter applications from students competing in the Fondazione Cologni call for applications. With “One School, One Job. […]
Launching for the ninth consecutive year is the “Mestieri d’arte e Bellezza italiana” lecture at the Milan Polytechnic, offered among the design faculty’s elective courses and sponsored by the Fondazione Italia Patria della Bellezza. The lectures, taught by Alberto Cavalli, director general of the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, present beauty as a true genetic […]
Paper’s origins are truly ancient. The first description dates back to the second century AD, in China, but it is thought that it had already been in use for some time. Its use was slow to spread in China and there was mention of paper in Italy only in the tenth century, in Palermo. Fabriano, […]
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On Tuesday, September 20, during the XXII edition of the CHI È CHI AWARDS – FASHION COMMUNITY AWARDS, Alberto Cavalli, general manager of Fondazione Cologni and executive director of Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, received at Palazzo Marino the social award as curator of the Homo Faber 2022 event that, in an international setting, […]
The title of the exhibition just opened in Venice on the Island of San Giorgio, for the initiatives promoted by le Stanze del Vetro, highlights the close link between Venetian glassmaking and light: reflected, projected, diffused by lumiere and panels of various shapes and sizes. Symbolic icons of the exhibition are the imposing veil, from […]
18/09/2022 - 08/01/2023
Venezia
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 […]
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It was presented last September 15 at the Museo Civico Archeologico in Milan on the occasion of The Italian Glass Weeks running until September 28, 2022. Gioielli di Vetro dalla Preistoria al III Millennio (Glass Jewelry from Prehistory to the Third Millennium) edited by Bianca Cappello and Augusto Panini is not only an elegant volume […]
Setsuko, an internationally renowned Japanese painter, presents her exhibition Into the Trees II at the Gagosian gallery in Rome. The artist, who has lived in Rome for a long time and currently combines the tranquility of the mountain landscape in Switzerland with the liveliness of the Paris atelier in Astier de Villatte, where she creates […]
08/09/2022 - 29/10/2022
Roma
Reality has often surpassed the wildest dreams of writers, philosophers, poets and scriptwriters. What was once difficult to imagine even for the most extravagant science-fiction writers- robots, 3D printers reproducing themselves, artificial organs or, more simply, highly advanced cell phones serving as computing devices- is so much part of our life now that we can […]
The world of craftsmanship
Since the 1400s, printers have been creating such items as lunar calendars, playing cards, holy cards, edicts and notices, and also Florentine paper. As a typical Florentine product, decorated paper only emerged around the end of the nineteenth century, after the great burgeoning of the 18th-century French woodcut technique and the influences of early 19th-century […]
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We have important plans for the coming year: to increase the number of young artisans to be trained, to strengthen scientific research and publishing activities, and to organize events that will allow art masters to have greater and greater visibility. Establish European-level partnerships to better and better promote Italian art crafts. Now you can help […]
In the Middle Ages, working and trading in textiles took on great importance in our country. In late medieval Florence, more than half of the population worked in the wool sector. These businesses made it possible for Florence to acquire great wealth, later used to create masterpieces that are still admired by the whole […]
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The now historic event in Florence Artigianato&Palazzo, the market-exhibition of artisan excellence in Italy, is back, now in its XXVIII edition. The exhibition, now produced by the Giardino Corsini Association of which Sabina Corsini is president, while sinking its assumptions in the furrow of the oldest craft tradition, wants to highlight the contemporary nature of […]
16/09/2022 - 18/09/2022
Palazzo Corsini - Firenze
The Fondazione Cologni’s internship training project is renewed, opening the new call for applications, and is presented with a completely new logo and image, reflecting the values and true essence of the project. The logo and coordinated image were created thanks to the valuable contribution of Gruppo Montenegro through the special “Human Spirit” award promoted […]
Everyone knows that, even today, Florence is still dedicated to the artisan tradition of leather goods, shoes, handbags and, above all, the great success of artistic, split leather desk sets. Where is the raw material prepared? Today, the district of high-quality vegetable-based tanning is concentrated in provinces of Pisa and Florence, in and around […]
The world of craftsmanship
The first document that attests the presence of glassworks in Venice, where the name of a glass-blower active in the city appears, dates to 982 AD. In 1295, the Serenissima ordered that all glass kilns transfer from Venice to the isle of Murano because of the grave risk of fire that derived from the manufacturing […]
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It may seem unusual to juxtapose opera with glass. In reality, the power of song and the breath of master glassmakers give rise to works with subtle affinities: the intensity of musical notes is combined with the plasticity or delicacy of glass. This is the theme of the Glass and Opera exhibition set up at […]
01/07/2022 - 27/11/2022
Venezia
A concrete cistern, rising 30 meters in height. It was built in the 1950s and represents the banner-like symbol distinguishing the Sesto Fiorentino area with the indication of the Richard-Ginori manufacture in white porcelain letters. The sphere no longer has the function of a water cistern for processing, but becomes a symbol of local production […]
