May 10 is the deadline for enrollment in the course Draping Basic techniques, experimentation and creative application supported by the Fondazione CR Firenze which promotes and supports the activities of Spazio NOTA and Associazione OMA. The course to be held from May 17 to 28 is 40 hours. Held by the teacher Sara Paci Piccolo […]

The Fondazione Museo del Tessuto di Prato dedicates the exhibition Turandot e l’Oriente fantastico di Puccini, Chini e Caramba, to the suggestion of Orientalism in the first decades of the 20th century. The sets, theatrical dresses, ornaments and stage jewelry are those used in Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, from the collection of soprano Iva Pacetti, designed […]

It takes place online from April 24 to May 2, the 85th edition of the International Handicrafts Exhibition. The event that will be back in attendance in 2022 takes place on Emporio MIDA (emporiomida.mostrartigianato.it), the online showcase launched by Firenze Fiera in June 2020 with the aim of supporting the excellence of Italian and international […]

The XXVII edition of ARTIGIANATO E PALAZZO expands to Europe the BLOGS & CRAFTS contest aimed at young artisans and influencers. “BLOGS & CRAFTS Europe”, this is the name of the special edition 2021 realized in collaboration with the prestigious World Crafts Council Europe, will allow 10 international artisans under 35 to participate for free […]

From March 25, 2021, at the moment in virtual mode to April 18, 2022, the new exhibition Silk takes place at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence. The project was created to tell the story of the printed silk signed Salvatore Ferragamo. Fulvia Ferragamo Visconti since the ’70s, has been the soul of silk accessories. […]

The aim of the course, for which enrolments expire on April 6th, is to realize some evolutions of the classic basic sleeve models in order to obtain raglan, bat, kimono by means of the advanced modelling techniques combined with moulage. Once the prototypes have been produced, the student will be able to proceed with the […]

After the long closure caused by the pandemic, the exhibition Mirabilia, curated by the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, is finally back with the reopening of the Triennale. Free entrance, it will be open until April 4, for the moment from Tuesday to Friday, from 11am to 9:30pm. Entrances will be limited and all safety […]

The exhibition curated by Sylvain Bellenger, General Director of the Capodimonte Museum and Royal Woods, winner of the MAM- Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere special prize in the Heritage category, as a Supporter of Excellence in the Métiers d’Art, opened in September and will remain open until early April. The Royal Apartment of the Reggia di […]

Venice and the American Glass Studio, this is the title of the exhibition in progress at “Le Stanze del Vetro”, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, until January 10, 2021. 133 glass works by 60 artists, American and Venetian, are presented, comparing modernity and tradition, experimentation, carried out with the most consolidated Murano techniques, […]

The exhibition, visible until January 20, 2021, presents the collection of antique toys recently acquired by the Capitoline Superintendence. Twenty-two rooms of Palazzo Braschi house about 700 antique toys, made between 1860 and 1930, which reproduce different subjects: the city and the countryside with palaces, mills and farms, courtyard and street games, the circus and […]

Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte and Triennale Milano start a collaboration on the theme of applied arts, presenting as the first event in the space of the Quadreria di Triennale the cycle of exhibitions Mestieri d’Arte e Design. Crafts Culture. Five exhibitions that propose a new point of view on contemporary art crafts. This partnership […]

This is the third edition of the biennial title of MAM-Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere, created by Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte in collaboration with ALMA-La Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana. The aim of this initiative was to create an independent “Master of Art” title, to enhance and bring to the attention of the general public […]

The collaboration between the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and Van Cleef & Arpels continues with the exhibition Pierres précieuses – from September 16, 2020 to June 14, 2021 – which recounts the multi-millennial history of minerals revealing the ability that Man has demonstrated for centuries to enhance their splendor. Through an immersive […]

Back to Seravezza – from September 20 to October 11, 2020 – “Le Mani eccellenze in Versilia” focused on the artisan alphabet. Organized by the Cna of Lucca, with the collaboration of the Fondazione Terre Medicee and the Department for the Promotion and Valorization of the Territory of the City of Seravezza, the event reaches […]

On October 29th, at the Gallery of Palazzo Coveri on the Florentine Lungarno, the first stage of the exhibition of the winners of the PREZIOSA YOUNG competition will be inaugurated, featuring 7 young emerging artists selected by an international jury for their inventive abilities in the materials used, in the techniques used, in the proposal […]

During all the fifty-six days of the quarantine Ugo La Pietra and Corrado Levi, in a spontaneous and completely autonomous way, worked on notebooks with texts, drawings and sketches, recording their moods, reflections, emotions, landscapes granted by the narrow space of a window or balcony. Ugo La Pietra, between March and May, wrote stories in […]

Etruscan art and craftsmanship are the protagonists of an exhibition visible until May 31, 2021, at the MANN in Naples. About 600 works of various types offer an evocative story of this people who settled in the lands of Campania and the Mediterranean panorama from the tenth to the sixth century BC. The artefacts conserved […]

The Museo del Tessuto di Prato presents, until October 25, 2020, sketches and about 30 dresses designed by Massimo Cantini Parrini for the film Pinocchio by Matteo Garrone and made by Sartoria Tirelli, the historical company Costumi d’Arte Peruzzi, started in Florence in the early nineteenth century and then moved to Rome, and Cospazio 26. […]

For 26 years the Associazione Giardino Corsini, engaged in Florence in the enhancement and protection of the quality of Italian and international craftsmanship, organizes and promotes the exhibition market Artigianato e Palazzo (Crafts and Palace), under the guidance of the creators Giorgiana Corsini and Neri Torrigiani. Every year, a selection of about one hundred of […]

The project “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di Eccellenza” (One School, One Job. Percorsi di Eccellenza), conceived and supported by the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte in Milan, has been promoting for 10 years now the inclusion of young talents in the world of high artistic craftsmanship, financing extracurricular training internships in the workshop, for […]