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January 2026
Young Craft Booster Year Three: the programme continues into the final chapter
Young Craft Booster is moving steadily forward and has now entered its third and final year. As the 2025/2026 edition unfolds, the programme continues to strengthen its educational dimension...
December 2025
“Roma su misura”: the new Craft Shopping Guide dedicated to the Eternal City is unveiled
Rome, Publishing
A guide conceived to tell the story of Rome’s beauty and its disarming grandeur. A greatness born of precious details, like the tiny tesserae of its mosaics, the veining of its marbles and the drapery of its sculptures.
December 2025
“Applied Arts in Lombardy in the Nineteenth Century” at Castello Sforzesco
On the evening of Wednesday 10 December 2025, in the Bertarelli Study Room at Castello Sforzesco in Milan, the volume “Le arti applicate in Lombardia nell’Ottocento. Artisti, collezionisti, esposizioni e musei” was presented.
December 2025
“A regola d’arte”: the Stamperia d’Arte Busato workshop at Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Milano, Print
The artistic lithography workshop led by master printer Giancarlo Busato at Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan was met with great enthusiasm and participation. The event formed part of the “A regola d’arte” programme supported by Fondazione Cologni.
December 2025
Starhotels Award “Il bello dell’utile”: call for entries extended
Milano, Concorso
The deadline for submissions for the La Grande Bellezza by Starhotels Award – “Il bello dell’utile” has been extended to 15 January 2026 at 8:00 pm. The award is open to artisans resident and regularly working in Italy.
November 2025
Pasta Diva: an unprecedented tribute to the quintessential Italian dish
Publishing, enogastronomy
“Pasta Diva” is the new title in the “Mestieri d’Arte” series by Fondazione Cologni with Marsilio Editori: an original tribute to pasta, our national dish par excellence. Written by Andrea Grignaffini, a well-known and highly esteemed author in the world of food and wine, the book becomes even more precious and enters a fantastic dimension thanks to the dreamlike and visionary illustrations of Paolo Rui.
Interviews
Gianluigi Bertozzi

For over a century, the Bertozzi Print Workshop in Gambettola, in the province of Forlì-Cesena, has represented excellence in rust printing, a manual technique rooted in Romagna, according to some, since the time of Julius Caesar and his centurions. Between historical reality and legend, the basic ingredients have always been the same: a pear wood block, a dye with a secret recipe, and a fabric to be decorated. Everything else is creativity, but entirely at the service of craftsmanship. Gianluigi Bertozzi, grandson of the founder, tells us the story of the family workshop, the techniques of the craft, and the idea of applying the same technique and gestures to other materials. Without jealousy or secrets, because “the difficult part is not looking, but learning how to do it.”

Andrea Bouquet
Torino, Maestri, Legno

In the Pinerolo valleys, in a workshop on the edge of the forest, Andrea Bouquet shapes wood into refined, distinctive small pieces of furniture inspired by the natural landscape and rural architecture. After many years working in the restoration of antique wooden objects, the cabinetmaker embarked on a personal path, developing an original language that combines mastery of traditional techniques with an innate graphic sensibility and a keen attention to material. On the occasion of Doppia Firma 2026, he spoke to us about his craft and artistic research, which unfolds in a liminal space - much like his workshop - between technique and instinct, contrast and balance, rigor and play.

Renato Olivastri
Firenze, Legno

In the heart of Florence, among streets that for centuries have safeguarded an extraordinary concentration of crafts, Renato Olivastri’s workshop still preserves the rhythm and atmosphere of traditional artisanal work. A restorer and marquetry artist, Olivastri has built his career through hands-on practice, moving across cabinetmaking, restoration, and teaching, in a continuous dialogue between tradition and the transmission of knowledge—an approach that earned him, in 2024, the title of MAM – Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere from the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte. Specializing in the restoration of Boulle furniture, he has developed a deep knowledge of materials and techniques, combining his workshop activity with many years of teaching experience. Today, alongside the rigor of restoration, he explores a more personal and expressive dimension, where marquetry becomes a field of creative research.

Mustras

Architect and designer Fabrizio Felici and contemporary art manager Martina Carcangiu are the founders and artistic directors of Mustras, a project born in Sardinia in 2019 and developed through the contribution of a collective of artists, architects, designers, and artisans engaged in an investigation of the idea of dwelling. By weaving together theory and practice, tradition and design, in just a few years Mustras has given life to more than ninety unique objects. These works emerge from an interdisciplinary dialogue that allows them to move beyond everyday use and enter a more extraordinary sphere—one in which objects can once again be recognized as bearers of meaning, from a contemporary rather than nostalgic perspective. At the heart of the project lies the role of Sardinian artisans, true custodians of the essential bond between material, territory, and tradition.

Patrizia Ramacci

Hands that care are not only those of medical professionals or body practitioners. More broadly, they are the hands of artisans — hands that tend to the material of the world, mastering the very technique of beauty. With this belief, Patrizia Ramacci, master craftswoman in plasterwork and founder of the Bottega d’Arte Gypsea in Gubbio, has created a poetic and ambitious project, constantly evolving: the Archive of Masterful Hands, a collection of plaster casts of the hands of outstanding Italian artisans from every field. A tribute intended to grant them a form of immortality, but also a celebration of the intimate joy of making that those hands embody.

Lorenzo Foglia
Florence, Master, Metal, Silver

Since 1935, Florence has been home to a goldsmith’s workshop specializing in silverwork that has gradually established itself as a true academy of the craft. The founder Carlo Foglia first, then his son Giuliano, and for many years now his grandson Lorenzo have all helped write the recent history of the silversmith’s art, creating extraordinary objects and training chasers who have taken their expertise not only throughout the city but around the world.
Today, the works of Lorenzo Foglia—named a MAM, Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere, in 2018—are the mature fruit of an absolute command of traditional techniques, a broad historical culture, and an expressive freedom which—much like in the finest Renaissance workshops—elevate his sculptures and all his silverwork to the status of high art. In his words, one senses all the awareness and passion of a craftsperson who looks to Cellini and Leonardo as guiding spirits.

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