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"Brooch" and "Bracelet" by Giovanni Corvaja in gold, platinum wires, gold granules or enamel (2000-12) presented in “A History of Jewellery: Bedazzled (part 9: Contemporary Jewellery 1960s into the 21st Century)” by Beatriz Chadour-Sampson - International Jewellery Historian and Author - for the V&A Academy online, april 2024.
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Giovanni Corvaja, “Golden Mandala Bowl,”
Composed of approximately 4,000 meters of 18ct gold wire,
Height 4.5cm (1 3/4") Diameter 11.2cm (4 3/8"), weight 82 grams
Adrian Sassoon Gallery
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View from the Jeweler’s Bench: Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements
This exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City runs through July 7th. It look at how contemporary jewelry makers are now drawing upon antique jewelry and antique techniques to create their own work. I don’t have many pictures to offer, but you can see an itaglio ring made of carnelian and gold dating from the 18th Century at top. Then a shot of the exhibition room itself, which is dark so that all the jewels shine all the more brightly under spotlights. the exhibition features works by contemporary jewelry artists Ashley Buchanan, Jeanette Caines, Lin Cheung, Giovanni Corvaja, Mary Lee Hu, Gabriella Kiss, Otto Kunzli, emiko oye, Mary Hallam Pearse, Nicole Jacquard, Anya Kivarkis, and Kiff Slemmons.
To see a few more pics and info on visiting the gallery, go here: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/exhibitions/91/a-view-from-the-jewelers
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Back to the Future: Giovanni Corvaja on "Tea with Maria" series of jewel...
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Giovanni Corvaja 1. Fidelty, from the Golden Fleece Collection,18K gold. 104,272 single wires (total: 2.085 km of wire) 2008 2. Detail of Fidelty, from the Golden Fleece Collection, 2008 3. Fecundity, from the Golden Fleece Collection, 18K gold. 1,255,380 single wires (total: 24.48 km of wire), 2008 There are a number of associations to be made when we view these works by master goldsmith Giovanni Corvaja through a frame of materiality. The material itself - ultra fine, hand-drawn wires of 18k gold - immediately recall wealth, excess, and consumption, and perhaps religious relics and treasures, while simultaneously referencing labour, craftmanship. Looking deeper, the transformation of the materials - from a gold ingot into a wire of gold no thicker than a fifth of a human hair - can again be viewed spiritually, as a metaphor for transcendence. There is no need to recontextualise gold in this setting - the material already has plenty to say. Corvaja’s passion for material led him to develop his own systems of material manipulation and obliteration, as detailed below:
“Firstly, in the early ‘90s, Giovanni developed a system that enabled him to reduce gold and platinum to the dimension of one fifth of a human hair. This opened a whole new world of expressive possibilities in the field of jewellery to him. Precious metals turned into delicate fibres under his hands: soft, ethereal matter, very pleasant to the touch, possessing the unique power of symbology and magic of gold. The experience of touching that material was as pleasurable as caressing fur. So, Giovanni became obsessed with a desire to create objects both beautiful, and sensually tactile. “Gold is my obsession, it is a symbol of evolution and perfection, it expresses the best virtue of nature and the creation. It is therefore a necessity for me to work with it, to acquire the maximum possible knowledge of it”.
The process of hand-drawing each wire again hints to an almost religious fervor and dedication to making and creation. This can only be matched by the thrilling delight experienced by the wearer as they caress the jewellery - expecting a prickly and sharp surface, but rewarded for their dedication instead with a soft and fur-like texture.
It’s difficult at times to consider the religiosity or spirituality of an object when I am not a particularly religious person myself. In my experience however, I believe that states of religious rapture and/or ecstasy are possible, and perhaps this state is a similar one that is experienced at the meditative point of ‘oneness’, or perhaps absolute serenity.
Links can then be drawn between religiosity and labour, craftsmanship, and dedication, and Corvaja’s material considerations and painstaking treatment have enabled this multiplicity of readings and linkages. Corvaja’s incredible pieces demonstrate how an unwavering dedication to the material qualities of the work, through a process of obliteration and meditation, can generate layered and thought-provoking work.
In my own practice, while some of my conceptual underpinnings differ from Corvaja’s, I can see how a re-evaluation of my materials is warranted. Questions I now have of my own work: 1) What are my materials? Where do my materials end? 2) In what ways can I dissemble, reform, recontextualise material into forms that balance obliteration and meditation 3) What is the point of asking my audience to meditate? 4) How can I manipulate my materials to create this elusive meditative state?
Post References: Images 1, 2, & 3: Corvaja, G 2008. Giovanni Corvaja Online Portfolio. Accessed 26 May 2020 <https://www.giovannicorvaja.com/the-golden-fleece/>
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Let’s have a look at the Most Exquisite Italian Craftsmanship
Italian Craftsmanship always was internationally celebrated. Italians have been known for bithing some of the most talented craftsmen and creative designers the world has eve seen. Their artistic and artisanal excellence is known all over the world. Italy has been a leader in innovative, beautiful, and high-quality design for decades. It’s no wonder that Isaloni (Salone del Mobile.Milano), one of the best and most notorious art and furniture design showcases in the world, is based in Milan since 1961.
Brianza, for example, is considered the craftsmanship-design district, halfway between Milan and Lake Como. It is a mesmerizing place, in which over the past two centuries noble and affluent families built many villas. These constructions required the skillful hands of master artisans and experts which furnished the breathtaking houses. This is the motive why such a fine and precious know-how survived there, as a crucial part of the region’s legacy. Some traditional craftsmanship knowledge can’t even be found anywhere else in Italy.
Since the 1950s, design entrepreneurs come to this area to collaborate with famous Italian and foreign artists, bringing to life of iconic furniture and lighting.
All the best Italian-made craftsmanship products merge together traditional craftsmanship and technology in an extremely detailed and almost perfect way. Artisan expertise has an irreplaceable value which allows delicate finishing details and final touches in all manufactured pieces. Human hands are capable of sensitivity and emotion while maintaining almost industrial precision.
Each hand-crafted art piece is truly unique since it is not being mass-produced. Every small little detail embraces the authenticity of it’s material and maker, a perfection in each flaw are featured.
The popular saying “Love French. Drive German. Dress Italian” already assures us of the high quality of Italian design and craftsmanship. Just to name a few, Berluti, Brioni, Brunello Cucinelli, Dolce & Gabbana, Ermenegildo Zegna, Etro, Fendi, Gucci, Armani, Kiton, Loro Piana, Paul Evans, Prada, Salvatore Ferragamo, and, of course, Versace, are all celebrated luxury brands with Italian origins. In luxury furniture and acessories we can also find Moooi and Swarovski, among many others.
Thanks to the nonstop evolution of technology, there are a million ways to use chemicals, for example, to tan leather. However, the best leather in the world is made by Italian tanners who use millennia-old traditions of au natural liming and dying. The result is a material that’s sturdier than any other on the market, as we can see in genuinely Italian-crafted shoes, which all have also a beautiful hand-painted finish. Also, most fabric mills use water that’s saturated with salt and minerals, which leads to a fabric that’s covered in a thin, color-quashing layer. But Italian fabric mills are usually located in the North, an outstanding region in the south of Swiss Alp glaciers. Craftsmanship Italian mills use pure water to produce fabric, that’s why you won’t find a single thread covered in undesirable substances.
Some companies have been around longer than entire nations. In fact, Vitale Barberis Canonico, a family-run fabric mill in Biella, the main textile supplier for the tailor maestros at Zegn, is working for fifteen generations, since the 1600s.
Handcrafting any piece is a slow and detailed process, which requires a burning passion for craftsmanship. Artisans are almost wizards, dedicating their lives to the magic of building extraordinary art with their own hands. A hand-crafted project can take weeks, months, years to be finished.
In 2009, the Italian parliament passed a law prohibiting the use of the phrase “Made in Italy” on any product label unless the product is actually made in Italy, from start to finish. This was a strategy to protect the country’s precious reputation as a creator of the finest craftsmanship products.
From the columns of ancient Rome to Michelangelo’s David, style is carved into the stone of Italian life. There’s even a term for it: “La belle figura”, which literally means “the beautiful figure”, yet represents a life style admired and followed, a trend, at all times and in all ways.
Italian-crafted goods can handle really well the passage of time. Vintage cloths and furniture are always, always en vogue, especially if they are handcrafted, high-quality, designer-made items.
From Leonardo da Vinci to Poltrona Frau armchairs, from Armani and Prada to Tiramisu cake. Italians have several beautiful specific products of the highest level made by small producers, artists and artisans everywhere in the country. Pursuing a family tradition, innovating, creating, finding new styles and raising quality is in the Italian blood, characteristics which will lead the country to a bright future.
You may also like: 6 fantastic Dining Tables used by top interior designers in projects
Fascinating Murano Traditional Glassworks
One of the most relevant examples of Italian excellent craftsmanship is the Venetian Glass, created for over 1500 years and with production focused in the island of Murano since the 13th century. Nowadays, Murano is known for its artistic glassworks, but it also has a long history of innovations in glassblowing and is Europe’s major glassmaking center. During the 15th century, Murano glassmakers created cristallo, and almost transparent glass, considered the finest glass in the world. They also developed a white glass called lattimo which resembled porcelain. Later, Murano also became Europe’s finest mirror’s production center.
Venice was controlled by the Eastern Roman Empire, but eventually became an independent city-state which flourished as a craftsmanship trading center and seaport. The city’s alliances with the Middle East created opportunities for the glassmakers to learn with more advanced countries as Syria and Egypt. Venetian glassmaking factories existed since the 8th century, but they started to be controlled by Murano in the beginning of 1291.
Glass factories often caught fire, so removing them from the city and locating them in an island avoided major fire disasters for the populations. It is known that Venetian glassmakers protect secret recipes and methods for making glass, which are still treasured in Murano.
The island popularity peaked in the 15th and 16th centuries. Venice’s dominance in trade along the Mediterranean Sea created a wealthy merchant class that was a strong connoisseur of the arts. The demand for glassworks increased. The spread of glassmaking talent among Europe eventually lessened the importance of Venice and its Murano glassmakers, especially since Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat in 1797. However, Murano glassmaking began to recover in the 1920s and today the island is home to numerous glass factories and a few individual artists’ studios. Murano’s Museo del Vetro (Glass Museum) in the Palazzo Giustinian showcases the history of glassmaking as well as glass masterpieces from Egyptian times to the present day.
Remarkable Italian Master Artisans
Piero Fornasetti
Among many incredible Italian master artisans, we can refer Piero Fornasetti, a painter, sculptor, interior decorator and engraver who lived most of his life in Milan. He attended the Brera Art Academy from 1930-32 and created more than 11.000 art pieces, many featuring the face of a woman, Lina Cavalieri, as a motif. Fornasetti found her face in a 19th-century magazine. Other usual characteristics of his work include the heavy use of black and white, the sun and time. His style evokes Greek and Roman architecture, by which he was heavily influenced. Nowadays, it is frequent to see Fornasetti’s style in fashion and accessories such as scarves, ties, lamps, furniture, china plates and tables.
Talented contemporary Italian master artisans include, for example, Simone Cenedese (glass sculptor), Massimo Lunardon(lampworker), Cesare Toffolo (lampworker), Simone Crestani (glassworker), Lucio Bubacco (lampworker) and Giovanni Corvaja(goldsmith).
Simone Cenedese
Living Room in classic style. Classic interior design
Simone Cenedese, one of the best Italian master artisans dedicated to glass sculpture, started working in a glass furnace created by his grandfather when he was still a boy. Through his work, Simone got involved in the family tradition of glasswork and gathered the key elements required for developing this art and creating designs. Artistic ability, creativity and the mastering of refined and exclusive techniques as well as the use of a wide chromatic range of pure and brilliant glass have developed into new ideas, creations, and projects.
Massimo Lunardon
Massimo Lunardon began his artistic career as a glassworker and lampworking artist in 1988. He gained experience in glasswork and glassmaking workshops and from numerous collaborations with studios, artists, designers, and architects. Interacting with different materials and people fueled his desire to experiment and push the traits of glass to their limit and beyond. Massimo’s ability to find the infinite possibilities of glass resulted in companies and private collectors from diverse sectors calling him to create original works.
Cesare Toffolo
Cesare Toffolo is one of the best Italian master artisans focused on glass sculpture and lampworking. Born in Murano in 1961, he grew up amongst a family immersed in glassmaking traditions. His grandfather, Giacomo, was a master glassworker who worked for Venini. Giacomo taught Cesare’s father, Florino, numerous techniques of glassworking, and Florino also joined the Venini glassworks at the age of 17. Florino then started to experiment and work with lampworking, gaining the respect of traditional glassworkers on Murano. It was then Florino’s turn to pass his knowledge to his son, Cesare.
Simone Crestani
The Italian master artisan Simone Crestani specialized in glassworking is known as one of the best craftsmen in Europe. He started working with glass at the prodigious age of 15. After a ten-year apprenticeship in “Lunardon’s factory”, he opened his own studio: “Atelier Crestani”.
Lucio Bubacco
Lucio Bubacco is an Italian master artisan specialized in craftsmanship, glass sculpture, and lampworking art. He was born on the famous island of Murano in 1957. As a boy growing up on this island renowned for its glasswork, Lucio would play with glass, making small animals, beads and other typical lampworked objects. At the prodigious age of 15, he became a qualified glassworker and started to sell his lampwork creations.
Giovanni Corvaja
Giovanni Corvaja is a craftsman and researcher with a deep passion for metal and an immense love for goldsmiths. He is one of the talented finalists in this year’s edition of Loewe Craftsmanship Prize. This incredible master artisan was born on 30 September 1971 and is an Italian jewelry artist renowned for his craftsmanship masterpieces of the finest quality. He began to work as a metalsmithing at the age of 13 at Pietro Selvatico High School of Art in Padua under the tuition of Francesco Pavan and Paolo Maurizio. In 1988, he was awarded the Diploma di Maestro d’Arte, and in 1990 the Maturità d’Arte Applicata.
You can also check out this one: Don’t miss our Design Guide for NY’s AD Design Show 2019
Inspiring Italian Designers
Gaetano Pesce
During his career, four decades filled with projects in architecture, urban planning, interior, exhibition, and industrial design, Gaetano Pesce, the architect, and designer, conceived public and private masterpieces in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. In all his work, he expresses his guiding principle: modernism is less a style than a method for interpreting the present and hinting at the future in which individuality is preserved and celebrated.
Born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1939, Pesce studied Architecture at the University of Venice between 1958 and 1963. He taught architecture at the Institut d’Architecture et d’Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg, France, for 28 years, at the Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, at the Domus Academy in Milan, at the Polytechnic of Hong Kong, at the Architectural School of Sao Paulo and at the Cooper Union in New York City, where he made his home since 1980, after living in Venice, London, Helsinki, and Paris.
Pesce’s work is featured in over 30 permanent collections in the most important museums in the world, such as MoMa of New York and San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Vitra Museum in Germany, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Pompidou Center and Musee des Arts Décoratifs of Louvre in Paris, he also exhibits his art in galleries worldwide.
His award-winning designs include the prestigious Chrysler Award for Innovation and Design in 1993, the Architektur and Wohnen Designer of the Year in 2006 and the Lawrence J. Israel Prize from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2009. Pesce’s experience is global, his innovations are always groundbreaking. Boundaries between art, design, and industry seem irrelevant to him, as art is most certainly not something created and put on a pedestal: art is a product, it is our creative response to the needs of the time we live in.
Patricia Urquiola
Patricia Urquiola (1961) was born in Oviedo (Spain) and currently lives in Milan. She studied architecture at the Polytechnic of Madrid where she graduated in 1989. From 1990 until 1992 she was an assistant professor in the courses given by Achille Castiglioni and Eugenio Bettinelli, both at the Polytechnic of Milan and E.N.S.C.I. in Paris. Between 1990 and 1996 she worked for the development office of new products of “De Padova” and signed with Vico Magistretti the products: “Flower”, “Loom sofa”, “Chaise” and “Chaise Longue”.
Between 1992 and 1996 Urquiola opened a studio with two friends, Renzio and Ramerino, working with architecture, interiors, restaurants, among others. In the next 4 years she was the manager of the Lissoni Associati Group and in 2001 she opened her own studio in Milan, focused on product design and architecture. Patricia won many design awards, such as Antares-Flos, Artelano, Boffi, Cappellini, Cassina, Kartell. In addition to attending events, conferences, and lectures she designed for B & B, Bosa, De Vecchi, Fasem, Kartell, Liv’it, MDF Italy, Molteni & C., Moroso, and Tronconi.
Her products were selected for the 2001 Design Exhibition in Italy and for the Annual International Design Catalog of 1999 and 2001. In 2001 she was a jury of the 19th CDIM Design Competition and lectured at the Domus Academy. She currently conducts her professional career at her own craftsmanship studio in Milan in the fields of design, exhibitions, art direction and architecture.
Renowned Italian Art Galleries
Since the end of the Nineties, Nilufar knows how to find its own unique place, so it became a reference point to everyone devoted to historical design, craftsmanship and to people who love to follow the trends and understand the evolution of contemporary design.
Above all, Nilufar inhabits that fine line between artistic knowledge, poetry and visionary ideas, all of the characteristic of contemporary art. Nina Yashar is the gallery’s founder and works with her sister Nilu plus a team of five people. Nilufar was present in several editions of Pavillon des Arts et du Design in Paris and is always in the spotlight at Design Miami/Basel. This art gallery also has its own little manifesto, composed of three words: Discovering, Crossing, Creating.
Gallery Rossana Orlandi opened in 2002 in a former tie Factory in the Magenta neighbor. The gallery has been supporting along the years new designers and is becoming one of the most revered promoters of avant-garde design and lifestyle. Its activity started with a focus on the rising dutch design with designers such as Piet Hein Eek, Maarten Baas and Nacho Carbonell. However, the research has moved widely around the world creating a catalog which reflects the most innovative craftsmanship from Europe to Asia and America.
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Let’s have a look at the Most Exquisite Italian Craftsmanship
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Italian Craftsmanship always was internationally celebrated. Italians have been known for bithing some of the most talented craftsmen and creative designers the world has eve seen. Their artistic and artisanal excellence is known all over the world. Italy has been a leader in innovative, beautiful, and high-quality design for decades. It’s no wonder that Isaloni (Salone del Mobile.Milano), one of the best and most notorious art and furniture design showcases in the world, is based in Milan since 1961.
Brianza, for example, is considered the craftsmanship-design district, halfway between Milan and Lake Como. It is a mesmerizing place, in which over the past two centuries noble and affluent families built many villas. These constructions required the skillful hands of master artisans and experts which furnished the breathtaking houses. This is the motive why such a fine and precious know-how survived there, as a crucial part of the region’s legacy. Some traditional craftsmanship knowledge can’t even be found anywhere else in Italy.
Since the 1950s, design entrepreneurs come to this area to collaborate with famous Italian and foreign artists, bringing to life of iconic furniture and lighting.
All the best Italian-made craftsmanship products merge together traditional craftsmanship and technology in an extremely detailed and almost perfect way. Artisan expertise has an irreplaceable value which allows delicate finishing details and final touches in all manufactured pieces. Human hands are capable of sensitivity and emotion while maintaining almost industrial precision.
Each hand-crafted art piece is truly unique since it is not being mass-produced. Every small little detail embraces the authenticity of it’s material and maker, a perfection in each flaw are featured.
The popular saying “Love French. Drive German. Dress Italian” already assures us of the high quality of Italian design and craftsmanship. Just to name a few, Berluti, Brioni, Brunello Cucinelli, Dolce & Gabbana, Ermenegildo Zegna, Etro, Fendi, Gucci, Armani, Kiton, Loro Piana, Paul Evans, Prada, Salvatore Ferragamo, and, of course, Versace, are all celebrated luxury brands with Italian origins. In luxury furniture and acessories we can also find Moooi and Swarovski, among many others.
Thanks to the nonstop evolution of technology, there are a million ways to use chemicals, for example, to tan leather. However, the best leather in the world is made by Italian tanners who use millennia-old traditions of au natural liming and dying. The result is a material that’s sturdier than any other on the market, as we can see in genuinely Italian-crafted shoes, which all have also a beautiful hand-painted finish. Also, most fabric mills use water that’s saturated with salt and minerals, which leads to a fabric that’s covered in a thin, color-quashing layer. But Italian fabric mills are usually located in the North, an outstanding region in the south of Swiss Alp glaciers. Craftsmanship Italian mills use pure water to produce fabric, that’s why you won’t find a single thread covered in undesirable substances.
Some companies have been around longer than entire nations. In fact, Vitale Barberis Canonico, a family-run fabric mill in Biella, the main textile supplier for the tailor maestros at Zegn, is working for fifteen generations, since the 1600s.
Handcrafting any piece is a slow and detailed process, which requires a burning passion for craftsmanship. Artisans are almost wizards, dedicating their lives to the magic of building extraordinary art with their own hands. A hand-crafted project can take weeks, months, years to be finished.
In 2009, the Italian parliament passed a law prohibiting the use of the phrase “Made in Italy” on any product label unless the product is actually made in Italy, from start to finish. This was a strategy to protect the country’s precious reputation as a creator of the finest craftsmanship products.
From the columns of ancient Rome to Michelangelo’s David, style is carved into the stone of Italian life. There’s even a term for it: “La belle figura”, which literally means “the beautiful figure”, yet represents a life style admired and followed, a trend, at all times and in all ways.
Italian-crafted goods can handle really well the passage of time. Vintage cloths and furniture are always, always en vogue, especially if they are handcrafted, high-quality, designer-made items.
From Leonardo da Vinci to Poltrona Frau armchairs, from Armani and Prada to Tiramisu cake. Italians have several beautiful specific products of the highest level made by small producers, artists and artisans everywhere in the country. Pursuing a family tradition, innovating, creating, finding new styles and raising quality is in the Italian blood, characteristics which will lead the country to a bright future.
You may also like: 6 fantastic Dining Tables used by top interior designers in projects
Fascinating Murano Traditional Glassworks
One of the most relevant examples of Italian excellent craftsmanship is the Venetian Glass, created for over 1500 years and with production focused in the island of Murano since the 13th century. Nowadays, Murano is known for its artistic glassworks, but it also has a long history of innovations in glassblowing and is Europe’s major glassmaking center. During the 15th century, Murano glassmakers created cristallo, and almost transparent glass, considered the finest glass in the world. They also developed a white glass called lattimo which resembled porcelain. Later, Murano also became Europe’s finest mirror’s production center.
Venice was controlled by the Eastern Roman Empire, but eventually became an independent city-state which flourished as a craftsmanship trading center and seaport. The city’s alliances with the Middle East created opportunities for the glassmakers to learn with more advanced countries as Syria and Egypt. Venetian glassmaking factories existed since the 8th century, but they started to be controlled by Murano in the beginning of 1291.
Glass factories often caught fire, so removing them from the city and locating them in an island avoided major fire disasters for the populations. It is known that Venetian glassmakers protect secret recipes and methods for making glass, which are still treasured in Murano.
The island popularity peaked in the 15th and 16th centuries. Venice’s dominance in trade along the Mediterranean Sea created a wealthy merchant class that was a strong connoisseur of the arts. The demand for glassworks increased. The spread of glassmaking talent among Europe eventually lessened the importance of Venice and its Murano glassmakers, especially since Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat in 1797. However, Murano glassmaking began to recover in the 1920s and today the island is home to numerous glass factories and a few individual artists’ studios. Murano’s Museo del Vetro (Glass Museum) in the Palazzo Giustinian showcases the history of glassmaking as well as glass masterpieces from Egyptian times to the present day.
Remarkable Italian Master Artisans
Piero Fornasetti
Among many incredible Italian master artisans, we can refer Piero Fornasetti, a painter, sculptor, interior decorator and engraver who lived most of his life in Milan. He attended the Brera Art Academy from 1930-32 and created more than 11.000 art pieces, many featuring the face of a woman, Lina Cavalieri, as a motif. Fornasetti found her face in a 19th-century magazine. Other usual characteristics of his work include the heavy use of black and white, the sun and time. His style evokes Greek and Roman architecture, by which he was heavily influenced. Nowadays, it is frequent to see Fornasetti’s style in fashion and accessories such as scarves, ties, lamps, furniture, china plates and tables.
Talented contemporary Italian master artisans include, for example, Simone Cenedese (glass sculptor), Massimo Lunardon(lampworker), Cesare Toffolo (lampworker), Simone Crestani (glassworker), Lucio Bubacco (lampworker) and Giovanni Corvaja(goldsmith).
Simone Cenedese
Living Room in classic style. Classic interior design Simone Cenedese, one of the best Italian master artisans dedicated to glass sculpture, started working in a glass furnace created by his grandfather when he was still a boy. Through his work, Simone got involved in the family tradition of glasswork and gathered the key elements required for developing this art and creating designs. Artistic ability, creativity and the mastering of refined and exclusive techniques as well as the use of a wide chromatic range of pure and brilliant glass have developed into new ideas, creations, and projects.
Massimo Lunardon
Massimo Lunardon began his artistic career as a glassworker and lampworking artist in 1988. He gained experience in glasswork and glassmaking workshops and from numerous collaborations with studios, artists, designers, and architects. Interacting with different materials and people fueled his desire to experiment and push the traits of glass to their limit and beyond. Massimo’s ability to find the infinite possibilities of glass resulted in companies and private collectors from diverse sectors calling him to create original works.
Cesare Toffolo
Cesare Toffolo is one of the best Italian master artisans focused on glass sculpture and lampworking. Born in Murano in 1961, he grew up amongst a family immersed in glassmaking traditions. His grandfather, Giacomo, was a master glassworker who worked for Venini. Giacomo taught Cesare’s father, Florino, numerous techniques of glassworking, and Florino also joined the Venini glassworks at the age of 17. Florino then started to experiment and work with lampworking, gaining the respect of traditional glassworkers on Murano. It was then Florino’s turn to pass his knowledge to his son, Cesare.
Simone Crestani
The Italian master artisan Simone Crestani specialized in glassworking is known as one of the best craftsmen in Europe. He started working with glass at the prodigious age of 15. After a ten-year apprenticeship in “Lunardon’s factory”, he opened his own studio: “Atelier Crestani”.
Lucio Bubacco
Lucio Bubacco is an Italian master artisan specialized in craftsmanship, glass sculpture, and lampworking art. He was born on the famous island of Murano in 1957. As a boy growing up on this island renowned for its glasswork, Lucio would play with glass, making small animals, beads and other typical lampworked objects. At the prodigious age of 15, he became a qualified glassworker and started to sell his lampwork creations.
Giovanni Corvaja
Giovanni Corvaja is a craftsman and researcher with a deep passion for metal and an immense love for goldsmiths. He is one of the talented finalists in this year’s edition of Loewe Craftsmanship Prize. This incredible master artisan was born on 30 September 1971 and is an Italian jewelry artist renowned for his craftsmanship masterpieces of the finest quality. He began to work as a metalsmithing at the age of 13 at Pietro Selvatico High School of Art in Padua under the tuition of Francesco Pavan and Paolo Maurizio. In 1988, he was awarded the Diploma di Maestro d’Arte, and in 1990 the Maturità d’Arte Applicata.
You can also check out this one: Don’t miss our Design Guide for NY’s AD Design Show 2019
Inspiring Italian Designers
Gaetano Pesce
During his career, four decades filled with projects in architecture, urban planning, interior, exhibition, and industrial design, Gaetano Pesce, the architect, and designer, conceived public and private masterpieces in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. In all his work, he expresses his guiding principle: modernism is less a style than a method for interpreting the present and hinting at the future in which individuality is preserved and celebrated.
Born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1939, Pesce studied Architecture at the University of Venice between 1958 and 1963. He taught architecture at the Institut d’Architecture et d’Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg, France, for 28 years, at the Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, at the Domus Academy in Milan, at the Polytechnic of Hong Kong, at the Architectural School of Sao Paulo and at the Cooper Union in New York City, where he made his home since 1980, after living in Venice, London, Helsinki, and Paris.
Pesce’s work is featured in over 30 permanent collections in the most important museums in the world, such as MoMa of New York and San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Vitra Museum in Germany, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Pompidou Center and Musee des Arts Décoratifs of Louvre in Paris, he also exhibits his art in galleries worldwide.
His award-winning designs include the prestigious Chrysler Award for Innovation and Design in 1993, the Architektur and Wohnen Designer of the Year in 2006 and the Lawrence J. Israel Prize from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2009. Pesce’s experience is global, his innovations are always groundbreaking. Boundaries between art, design, and industry seem irrelevant to him, as art is most certainly not something created and put on a pedestal: art is a product, it is our creative response to the needs of the time we live in.
Patricia Urquiola
Patricia Urquiola (1961) was born in Oviedo (Spain) and currently lives in Milan. She studied architecture at the Polytechnic of Madrid where she graduated in 1989. From 1990 until 1992 she was an assistant professor in the courses given by Achille Castiglioni and Eugenio Bettinelli, both at the Polytechnic of Milan and E.N.S.C.I. in Paris. Between 1990 and 1996 she worked for the development office of new products of “De Padova” and signed with Vico Magistretti the products: “Flower”, “Loom sofa”, “Chaise” and “Chaise Longue”.
Between 1992 and 1996 Urquiola opened a studio with two friends, Renzio and Ramerino, working with architecture, interiors, restaurants, among others. In the next 4 years she was the manager of the Lissoni Associati Group and in 2001 she opened her own studio in Milan, focused on product design and architecture. Patricia won many design awards, such as Antares-Flos, Artelano, Boffi, Cappellini, Cassina, Kartell. In addition to attending events, conferences, and lectures she designed for B & B, Bosa, De Vecchi, Fasem, Kartell, Liv’it, MDF Italy, Molteni & C., Moroso, and Tronconi.
Her products were selected for the 2001 Design Exhibition in Italy and for the Annual International Design Catalog of 1999 and 2001. In 2001 she was a jury of the 19th CDIM Design Competition and lectured at the Domus Academy. She currently conducts her professional career at her own craftsmanship studio in Milan in the fields of design, exhibitions, art direction and architecture.
Renowned Italian Art Galleries
Since the end of the Nineties, Nilufar knows how to find its own unique place, so it became a reference point to everyone devoted to historical design, craftsmanship and to people who love to follow the trends and understand the evolution of contemporary design.
Above all, Nilufar inhabits that fine line between artistic knowledge, poetry and visionary ideas, all of the characteristic of contemporary art. Nina Yashar is the gallery’s founder and works with her sister Nilu plus a team of five people. Nilufar was present in several editions of Pavillon des Arts et du Design in Paris and is always in the spotlight at Design Miami/Basel. This art gallery also has its own little manifesto, composed of three words: Discovering, Crossing, Creating.
Gallery Rossana Orlandi opened in 2002 in a former tie Factory in the Magenta neighbor. The gallery has been supporting along the years new designers and is becoming one of the most revered promoters of avant-garde design and lifestyle. Its activity started with a focus on the rising dutch design with designers such as Piet Hein Eek, Maarten Baas and Nacho Carbonell. However, the research has moved widely around the world creating a catalog which reflects the most innovative craftsmanship from Europe to Asia and America.
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Bracelet "The Golden Fleece" de Giovanni Corvaja composé de 28km de fils d'or (circa 2008) présenté à la conférence en ligne “Art et Artisanat de l'Or" par Marie Lemaître - Joaillière et Professeur - et Marie-Laure Cassius-Duranton - Historienne de l'Art, Gemmologue et Professeur - de l'Ecole Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris et Hong-Kong, mai 2021.
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Taormina e dintorni
E’ assolutamente vero che Taormina è uno dei luoghi più belli del mondo. L’avrò visitata centinaia di volte e non mi ha mai deluso. Una passeggiata da Porta Catania a Porta Messina in mezzo ai tanti turisti e poi giù con la funivia fino alla costa per fare un tuffo nelle acque cristalline che circondano Isola Bella.
Appena arrivati in centro si viene subito rapiti dal profumo del pesce cucinato ad arte che si sente avvicinandosi ai ristoranti, e, anche se hai già pranzato, ti viene ugualmente la voglia di rimetterti a tavola. Ho cercato di impegnare la mente concentrandomi a fotografare le viuzze, i turisti e alcuni ragazzi che all’improvviso si sono messi a ballare la break dance.
Ho resistito al fritto misto ma non al gelato e nei pressi della Piazza IX Aprile mi sono fermato a guardare il ballo di questi scatenati ragazzi gustando un’ottima brioche.
Taormina è un luogo ricco di colori e il cielo, sempre azzurro, è il tocco magico che la rende unica.
Le piccole vie, addobbate con coloratissimi vasi e altri oggetti di ceramica, sono una goduria per gli occhi e c’è sempre qualcuno (compreso il sottoscritto) che si ferma a fare qualche fotografia.
Guy de Maupassant scriveva “Se qualcuno dovesse passare un solo giorno in Sicilia e chiedesse: “Cosa bisogna vedere?” risponderei senza esitazione: “Taormina” e come si fa a contraddirlo… bastano solo le bellezze paesaggistiche per essere totalmente rapito dalla straordinarietà di questo luogo.
Un patrimonio artistico, storico e culturale invidiabile, una “verdissima” Villa Comunale, un imponente Teatro Greco-Romano e un antichissimo Duomo (del III sec. a.C.) sono solo alcune delle bellezze che si possono ammirare nel comune siciliano.
Una città con una grande storia che merita di essere visitata e non solo nel periodo estivo. Il clima infatti è sempre piacevole, tipico mediterraneo, mai troppo caldo in estate né troppo freddo in inverno.
Luoghi d’interesse (Wiki)
Piazza della Cattedrale
Duomo di Taormina, XII secolo d.C.
Chiesa Anglicana di San Giorgio (Taormina)
Chiesa del Varò, sec. XVIII-XIX
Chiesa di San Giuseppe
Chiesa di Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, sec. XVII
Chiesa di Santa Domenica, sec. XVII
Chiesa di San Pancrazio, sec. VI-IX?
Chiesa di San Pietro e Paolo, sec. XVIII
Chiesa Madonna della Rocca, 1640 ca.
Cappella della Madonna delle Grazie, 1850
Chiesa del Convento di Sant’Antonio da Padova (originariamente Santa Caterina d’Alessandria), sec. XVI
Chiesa di Sant’Antonio Abate, 1330
Chiesa di Sant’Agata e convento dell’Ordine dei predicatori di San Domenico, odierne strutture ricettive note semplicemente con l’appellativo di San Domenico. 1374 fondazione dell’istituzione.
Teatro greco-romano.
Teatro antico di Taormina
Domus San Pancrazio, I secolo a.C.
Le Naumachie, I secolo a.C.
Odeon, I secolo a.C.
Castello di Monte Tauro, X secolo d.C.
Palazzo Corvaja
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano
La Villa Comunale
Casa Cuseni (uno dei più importanti esempi di Arts and Crafts fuori dal Regno Unito).
Isola Bella
Stazione ferroviaria Taormina-Giardini
Badia vecchia
Chiesa di Sant’Agostino sede della biblioteca comunale
La Villa Trevelyan Cacciola (ora giardini pubblici)
Isola Bella
Bella è bella, basta guardarla. Con una posizione dominante sulla costa di Taormina, l’Isola è sicuramente un luogo da visitare. Tanti turisti affollano le spiagge di Taormina facendo avanti/indietro da questa meravigliosa “perla del Mediterraneo“.
Al di là della bellezza in sé o della particolarità dell’isola/penisola (a secondo dell’alta/bassa marea) è la sua storia che mi affascina. Pensare di vivere in un posto del genere mi sembrerebbe molto strano eppure tanta gente è passata per quelle stanze. Tra i proprietari: Ferdinando I di Borbone; Pancrazio Ciprioti; Florence Trevelyan; i fratelli Leone ed Emilio Bosurgi e adesso di Assessorato dei beni culturali.
La Regione Siciliana, su sollecitazione del Comune di Taormina, l’Assessorato regionale dei beni culturali dichiarò l’isola Bella un monumento d’interesse storico artistico di particolare pregio in quanto «esempio isolato di unicum come valore naturalistico, storico e culturale», sottoponendola a vincoli di tutela.
Nel 1998 fu istituita riserva naturale, gestita dal WWF, poi dalla Provincia di Messina e di recente passata in gestione al CUTGANA, centro di tutela ambientale dell’Università di Catania.
Nel 2006 Isola Bella assieme a Taormina sono state iscritte nella Tentative List UNESCO per avere il riconoscimento di sito Patrimonio dell’Umanità
Giardini Naxos
Monumenti e luoghi d’interesse
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Nike di Kalkis: rappresenta il simbolo di Giardini Naxos e del gemellaggio con Chalkis (1966);
Chiesa madre: S.Maria Raccomandata;
Statua di Teocles il fondatore di Naxos;
Parco archeologico di Naxos;
Castello di Schisò: ovvero una fortificazione militare sorta nel medioevo.
Chiesa S.Maria Immacolata;
Chiesa San Pancrazio;
Porta di Naxos; rappresenta il simbolo del gemellaggio con le Cicladi (2000);
Il tempio olimpico di Giardini Naxos;
Parco Apollo Archageta;
Città Arcaica;
Città del V secolo;
Monumento ai caduti della prima guerra mondiale, realizzato nel 1923 dallo scultore Anacleto Brunetto
Luoghi di culto
Chiesa Madre di Santa Maria Raccomadata
Chiesa Santa Maria Immacolata
Chiesa San Pancrazio
Chiesa Sant’Antonino
Eventi religiosi
Festa della Madonna: S.Maria Raccomandata. Patrona della città di Giardini Naxos
Festa di San Giovanni Battista. Patrono dei quartieri: San Giovanni e Mastrociccio
Festa di San Pancrazio di Taormina. Patrono dei quartieri: San Pancrazio, Recanati Mareprovvido e Schisò
Festa di Sant’Antonio da Padova. Patrono del quartiere Ortogrande
Festa della Madonna del Carmelo. Patrona dei quartieri Calcarone e Bruderi
Festa della Madonna: S.Maria Immacolata
Processioni del Bambinello
Processioni delle varette ” Venerdì Santo”
Taormina Taormina e dintorni E' assolutamente vero che Taormina è uno dei luoghi più belli del mondo. L'avrò visitata centinaia di volte e non mi ha mai deluso.
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Giovanni Corvaja !
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Artist Statement
Motivated by my passion to create. I was left wondering if luxury is something we create ourselves in our own minds or if it is something objective and quantifiable.
I am interested how jewellery is not only a mere adornment. There is poetry and different types of moods behind the design methodology. I find it interesting how jewellery becomes the body by actually enhancing it, repairing it and extending it. And there is a story to be told.
My brass wall sculpture hopefully it can speak for itself and whatever it says to the viewer - it's the right message because there isn't a wrong and a right message. Each person takes something a little different from the same picture and I'm happy with that.
My little whispers collection developed and evolved over time, and was inspired by the shapes of the brass wall sculpture. I discovered I can first create a wall sculpture and use that sculpture as a source of my own inspiration.
My influences are first and foremost everything I see, feel and experience, but I always have my parents and culture in my heart. Then some of the artists I most admire are Alexander McQueen, Giovanni Corvaja & Thomas Cohn.
I am also inspired by writers, photographers, metalsmiths, fashion, culture, actors, directors, pope ..... I hope one-day to be considered as a storyteller of ‘hope’ in my works.
AIUBI Jewelry is an Australian brand created by student from Queensland College of Art - Michelle Timotin
Aiubi means to
Love,
Care,
Be Fond of
Aiubi is inspired by my father and my grandparents who are from Dutcha. Aiubi is a romanian word.
Mischa Timotin
Beauty will save the world, faith, hope, love & luck.
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Giovanni Corvaja: Goldsmith from Yoho Media on Vimeo.
For the National Museum of Scotland
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