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Catanzaro, Master, Fashion, Textile
Lanificio Leo
Textile as a narrative surface
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July 2025
DIT - Design in Town 2025: Apulia the theatre of creativity
The 2025 edition of DIT – Design in Town, in Troia (Foggia), once again this year confirms itself as Europe’s most important summer camp for orientation in the disciplines of design and creativity, and concludes with the active participation of 180 students
July 2025
The Ducker: high craftsmanship told through the eyes of the Master artisans
Founded in 2015 and edited by Laura Canepa, The Ducker is an editorial system revolving around the world of excellence expressed in all its forms.
July 2025
‘L'Italia nel Cuore’ at the XXXI edition of Artigianato e Palazzo
Starhotels confirms its presence at the thirty-first edition of Artigianato e Palazzo (Florence, 12-14 September 2025) with ‘La Grande Bellezza – The Dream Factory’: the project comes to life with ‘L'Italia nel Cuore’, a special exhibition dedicated to the theme of the heart, dense with symbolism and figurative and cultural references
April 2025
Doppia Firma 2025: 17,000 times thanks
Milan, Exhibition, Ceramic, Textile, Jewelry
More than 17,000 visitors animated the halls on the ground floor of Villa Mozart during Design Week 2025, appreciating the work of the creative couples of Doppia Firma. A Dialogue between design and artisanal excellence
April 2025
Online the photos of the project “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di Eccellenza”
Milan, Apprenticeships, Ceramic, Restoration
Once again this year, the Fondazione Cologni presents on the unascuolaunlavoro.it portal the stories and images of the twenty-four apprenticeships activated throughout Italy as part of its historic project, now in its 14th edition.
April 2025
12th edition of the Festival dell'Ascensione: perfecta sunt omnia
Milan, Concert, Music
4, 11, 18 and 25 May are the new dates of the 12th edition of the Festival dell'Ascensione, a tribute to the European sacred repertoire, under the artistic direction of Giuditta Comerci.
Interviews
Lanificio Leo
Catanzaro, Master, Fashion, Textile

Emilio Salvatore Leo, architect and designer, may not be a master of the arts in the classical sense, but he is undoubtedly a master of lateral thinking—a perspective that has allowed him to reinvent his family’s historic wool mill, transforming it into a creative hub with an international outlook, open to a variety of influences and narratives. By experimenting with intangible assets—history, brand identity, relationships—he reconnected Calabria’s oldest textile factory not only with the territory where it was founded in 1873, but also with the rest of the world. He achieved this by shaping the project with a clear political vision, even before an entrepreneurial one: our land, our people, and our art are the very essence of Made in Italy.

Fabio Ottaviano
Torre del Greco, Maestri, Scultura

"It’s hard to make people understand what lies behind a cameo." That’s how our conversation with Fabio Ottaviano began—marked by a sense of pride and a hint of mystery. Ottaviano is a master artisan of miniature shell cameo engraving based in Torre del Greco, close to Naples. Son of Pasquale—himself a student and heir to Giuseppe Scialanga, one of the great Neapolitan cameo masters of 19th-century —Fabio spoke to us about the daily joy of creating beauty with infinite precision and passion. He also shared the deep satisfaction that comes from seeing his sacrifices recognized, and the challenges of working in a system that, in Italy, still struggles to properly support and protect its artisans.

The song of coral
Sciacca, Master, Coral

Laura di Giovanna Nocito creates unique jewelry from the coral of Sciacca — a treasure the waters offered to the Sicilian town nearly two centuries ago — making this precious gift of the sea "sing." The heir to a family whose legacy has been shaped, generation after generation, by remarkable women, Laura was named a MAM – Master of Arts and Crafts in 2024 for her extraordinary talent in the goldsmith's art. In the following interview, she shares the captivating, almost mythical tales that led her to make coral her life’s craft.

Beatrice Barni
Pistoia, Master, Landscape

To celebrate the arrival of spring, the Biblioteca degli Alberi in Milan has been graced with a new rose garden, which now hosts the Rosa Mestieri d’Arte, a variety specially created by the Pistoian nursery, Rose Barni, for the Cologni Foundation. The scientist, farmer, and craftswoman responsible for bringing this unique variety to life—an eloquent metaphor for a delicate yet powerful world that transforms raw matter into beauty—is Beatrice Barni. A descendant of a family that has, for four generations, given birth to new expressions of beauty, she is also an expert in hybridization, a craft for which she was honored as a MAM (Master of Art and Crafts) in 2018. An undoubtedly unique and distinctive profession within the world of craftsmanship, of which Beatrice has unveiled some of its many secrets.

Bevilacqua
Sicilia, Master, Ceramic

Inspired by their mother's artistic flair, in 1997 Giuseppe and Antonio Bevilacqua founded a ceramic workshop in a small Sicilian town in the province of Caltanissetta, where they create the typical products of Caltagirone and Santo Stefano di Camastra ceramics - such as Moorish heads, pinecones, and tables - in a more contemporary style, while still using traditional techniques. With passion and determination, the brothers achieved recognition in a relatively short time, eventually forming high-profile collaborations, such as with Dolce&Gabbana, and in 2022, they received the title of MAM – Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere (MAM – Masters of Arts and Crafts’accolade) from the Cologni Foundation for the Métiers d’Art.


Tarsie Turri
Frosinone, Master, Wood Marquetry

Rita Turri, Master of Arts and Crafts 2024 in wood marquetry, inherited from her father Carlo, founder of the Tarsie Turri workshop in Anagni (in the province of Frosinone), the technique and sensitivity to find the harmony in which a few dozen or a thousand pieces, patiently composed in a refined geometric and chromatic balance, can coexist.

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