Fondazione Lisio pochette

Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio

We are on the hills just outside Florence in a place that encompasses a love of tradition, fine manufacturing, high education, a center for research, restoration and culture. The co-protagonists of this adventure are the manual Jacquard looms of the late 19th century; the loom setters with their attention and skill; the weavers with their …

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esercizi storici

Esercizi e Botteghe Storiche

Siete mai entrati in un esercizio storico italiano? Sono luoghi incantati dove sembra di tornare indietro nel tempo, dove tutto parla di tradizione e cultura. Per essere appellati “esercizi storici” si deve aver esercitato per almeno 50 anni l’attività nello stesso settore economico, senza interruzione di continuità. Molti dei Maestri Artigiani hanno il loro studio …

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impiraresse venezia unesco

The Impiraresse: passion, tenacity, perseverance

Thanks to 8 women, a profession that has deep feminine roots becomes “The Art of Glass Pearls” an intangible UNESCO ICH heritage. We are in Veneto, especially in the popular Castello-Venice district, and already between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women strung pearls, in the impirar dialect, near their homes. The impiraresse usually gathered in …

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Renaissance 21st c

Creative Disaster

The disasters, though undeniably tragic, create new resources and opportunities to advance in the design and creation of healthy communities and innovative business reactions; this is what some American universities demonstrate (Javier Monllor of DePaul University in Chicago). Even Eric Weiner in his article titled “Renaissance Florence was a better model of innovation than Silicon …

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