Mestieri d'Arte & Design 12

The workshop for the creation of a new brand of Palazzo Litta - MIC Lombardy Regional Secretariat, conceived by the CorsiArte School and financed by Fondazione Cologni, has ended with outcomes of great interest.

After four years of activity, the project "AD HOC. Strategies to contrast school dropout" (selected by the social enterprise Con i Bambini, coordinated by Cometa Formazione and co-financed by the De Agostini Foundation) has come to its end.

The 10 finalists of the "Artigiano del Cuore" contest have been selected. Promoted by Fondazione Cologni, supported by Serapian and under the aegis by the City of Milan, “Artigiano del Cuore” is now in its sixth edition, and this year it is dedicated to artisans and artisan ateliers based in Lombardy and carrying on a métier d’art.

On Thursday 15th June, the “Sommet du Luxe et de la Création”, organized by the Centre du Luxe et de la Création, was held in Paris at the Hotel InterContinental Paris Le Grand. The theme of the event stemmed from the reflection “What are the reference points and values that shape the soul of luxury today?”.

At Palazzo Colonna, in the heart of Rome, the ceremony for the investiture of the 2023 Honorary Members of Fondazione Altagamma took place on Monday 15th May.

The 29th edition of “Artigianato e Palazzo. Artisanal workshops and their commissioners” will take place from 15 to 17 September 2023 inside the Giardino Corsini, one of the most fascinating gardens in Florence.

Great success for the seventh edition of the "Doppia Firma" exhibition, in the context of "Arts & Crafts & Design" at Palazzo Litta, Milan: 22,500 visitors were welcomed, during the 6 days of the Design Week.

On the website dedicated to the project “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di eccellenza”, the profiles of the apprentices selected for the 2022/2023 edition are now available.

The 6th edition of “Artigiano del Cuore”, a contest promoted every year by the Fondazione Cologni and the Wellmade platform, is underway.

From 13th May to 9th July 2023 the MIDeC, Museo Internazionale del Design Ceramico, in collaboration with Triennale Milano, presents "La SCI Società Ceramica Italiana alla 1ª Mostra biennale delle arti decorative internazionali di Monza, Maggio 1923".

In the Richini's monumental 17th-century Courtyard of Honour, artfully illuminated by Viabizzuno, visitors to the new edition will be welcomed by the imposing site-specific artwork TIME, executed by Milanese master artisan Gianluca Pacchioni

Starhotels is presenting the CLORIS tableware collection, an homage to the self perpetuating beauty of nature, and the PHOENIX fragrance diffuser, a sculptural item that symbolises vital energy, in the baroque treasure trove of Palazzo Litta

The seventh edition of Doppia Firma. Dialogues between design and artisanal excellence, in an itinerary that winds its way through the magnificent rooms on the Piano Nobile of Palazzo Litta

Bonacina 1889 presents a new collection of furniture indoor and outdoor relised by designer Francis Sultana. The Francis Sultana x Bonacina collection comprises 10 designs

Zodiac è una mostra realizzata da Creative Academy, scuola internazionale di design di Richemont, con il supporto di Van Cleef & Arpels e in partnership con Fondazione Cologni.

During the Milan Design Week, fine craftsmanship and creativity will be on show once again in the magnificent halls of Palazzo Litta, the historical venue of the Regional Secretariat of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Lo scorso 9 marzo, presso la sede milanese dell’Accademia Costume & Moda, istituzione romana d'eccellenza per la formazione nel campo della moda e del costume, si è svolta la cerimonia per il conferimento dell’Attestato di Benemerenza a Franco Cologni per l’instancabile impegno nella valorizzazione della bellezza e dei mestieri d’arte e per i grandi traguardi conseguiti nella diffusione della cultura del saper fare in Italia e nel mondo.

The fourth edition of "YouNique – Craft & Design", dedicated to fine craftsmanship, art and design, will take place on 25th and 26th March in Lugano (Switzerland), in the splendid Villa Ciani, and will see craftspeople and their works as protagonists of the event.

The year 1000 is considered the year ‘zero’ of the Sant’Orso Fair. On 30th and 31st January, for over a thousand years, the centre of Aosta has been displaying the artworks of master artisans, who exhibit and sell their products today as before. The Foire de Saint-Ours is a great kermesse dedicated to Valle d'Aosta crafts that still attracts hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts of manual arts.

How to help an artisan to improve the production of custom-made bicycles with new technologies that do not undermine the nature of his work? How to present the experience of building a mosaic by enhancing the places of know-how through the potential of augmented reality? These are the questions that Upskill 4.0, a spin-off of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, founded by Stefano Micelli, Professor of Economics and Business Management, together with a wide range of institutional partners, including UniCredit bank, is trying to answer.