Florence - XXIX edition for "Crafts and Palace" 15 - 17 September '23

The must-see events of the XXIXth edition of Crafts and Palace:

Métiers d’Excellence LVMH

Sanctifying the great attention to young people is the presence for the first time at the Exhibition and the debut of the collaboration with Métiers d’Excellence LVMH, a program of the LVMH Group created in 2021 with the aim of transmitting and enhancing the extraordinary heritage of the crafts of excellence, with the desire to attract a new generation and recruit the best talents. to foster in them a vocation and a passion so they can carry on the great tradition of crafts of excellence.

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“Matter and Virtuosity”

Group exhibition promoted by Artex - Center for Artistic and Traditional Crafts of Tuscany

The group exhibition “Materia e Virtuosismo” is being held as part of the Galleria dell'Artigianato project, which has been presenting themes and performers of Tuscan excellence in Italy and abroad since 2005 and has for many years benefited from the scientific curatorship of Jean Blanchaert. For this edition of ARTIGIANATO E PALAZZO, which takes place in the European Year of Skills instituted by the European Commission, objects made thanks to the best technical and creative skills that the Tuscan territory can express will be showcased in the "Focus" space.

The excellence of craftsmanship becomes true virtuosity, declined in the various materials and processing techniques. The exhibition aims to show, enhance, make known and admire the exceptional levels that experience and technique reach when they generate true masterpieces, which arouse the desire to be treasured by present and future generations to continue to be admired over time. Symbols of man's infinite creative abilities, and his striving to know and challenge the limits of matter.

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“The Great Beauty by Starhotels”

in collaboration with OMA - Associazione Osservatorio dei Mestieri d'Arte, Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte and Gruppo Editoriale.

“The Great Beauty by Starhotels” will bring to the Limonaia Grandi Maestri the creations that arise from the virtuous contamination between craftsmanship and hospitality of excellence signed by designer Sara Ricciardi, the result of a partnership between culture, hospitality and great craftsmanship. It is the blown glass collection for the table Cloris - plates, glasses, vases and risers - produced by the Treviso-based company Vetrarti, known for the production of high quality Murano glass that will be presented on a precious linen tablecloth embroidered with multicolored petals, made by Tessilarte, a historic Florentine company of fine linens for the home. It is joined by the Phoenix fragrance diffuser, a sculptural container object with the image of the Phoenix that involves: the Turin-based perfume maison Diletta Tonatto, the historic Murano furnace Mian, and the Milan-based metal workshop Silver Tre.

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“Craftsmanship that unites, craftsmanship that includes”

THE SOCIAL PROJECT 2023

ARTIGIANATO E PALAZZO's focus on social work continues, which, thanks to the support of funds from the Waldensian Church, will welcome five social cooperatives at the Exhibition - gathered in the Androne of Palazzo Corsini - where young people with different disabilities will be able to exhibit and sell their creations, involve the public with whorkshops and live demonstrations.

Cooperatives in the exhibition will be Trisomy 21, accessories and gifts made with different techniques by children with Down syndrome. Made in Sipario, a handicraft workshop where disabled "special artists" work by hand decorating paper, ceramics, wood and fabric for shopping bags, tableware and homeware. Mosquito Workshop, innovative graphic arts decorations made by boys and girls with mental disabilities aided by a team of professionals from the fields of visual communication, design and art. Ulysses Piedelibero, a workshop where abandoned bicycles from the Depositeria Comunale have new life: repaired and restored by inmates in the workshops of the Florentine prison and put back on the road; but also a training workshop for young mechanics aimed at boys from the Juvenile Institute. Guri I Zi an ethical brand of handcrafted textiles, for the table and the home, made on a loom as part of the women's textile microenterprise project in northern Albania launched in 2006 to improve the lives of women, their families and the entire community today gives work and dignity to more than 40 people.

The initiative is part of the project "Craftsmanship that unites, craftsmanship that includes" promoted by the Giardino Corsini Association in order to foster synergies among those who have chosen craftsmanship as an opportunity for inclusion, through training courses, meetings, marketing actions and promotion of their skills and works.

Part of this project is a program of "conversations" and themed meetings on the relationship between artistic form/disability and craftsmanship as a form of social inclusion, which will be organized during the three days of the exhibition to launch a call for investment in training and promotion of craftwork for the start of a project to enter the world of work.

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“BLOGS & CRAFTS Europe”

Now in its 10th edition, the special competition "BLOGS & CRAFTS the young craftsmen and the web" aimed at crafts under 35 and influencers and talent launched by ARTIGIANATO E PALAZZO in 2014 to involve the new generations who, with their particular vision on innovation issues, bring a fundamental contribution in the changes of the craft sector.

The hope is to be able to host more and more young people and, with their presence in the Scuderie di Palazzo Corsini-the exclusive area in the Exhibition dedicated to them-to make visitors understand that craftsmanship is a concrete reality for young people. The contest crosses borders and has opened again this year to the whole of Europe, thanks to the collaboration with the World Crafts Council Europe. The collaboration with the Ferragamo Foundation was renewed, which organized for participants a private visit to the Salvatore Ferragamo Archives, guardian of the company's tradition and the craftsmanship so dear to its founder. Influencers will be tasked with live blogging the exhibition on their social channels, invited to Florence as guests of Starhotels

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"COOKING AT THE OPERA: OPERA AT FAMILY RECIPES"

The 10th edition of "Family Recipes", curated by food and wine journalist Annamaria Tossani, will be dedicated to the intertwining of gastronomic culture and opera. Special guests, star performers of our times will be soprano Rajna Kabaivanska, Superintendent of the Fondazione Arena di Verona and soprano Cecilia Gasdia, mezzo-soprano Eufemia Tufano and baritone Vito Priante.The three daily events will be held at 6 p.m. in the "Giardinetto delle Rose", in a theatrical atmosphere thanks to Fornasetti's installation of "Teatro" wallpaper by Cole & Son. and listening to live and recorded speeches of opera pieces.

The audience will be able to watch live cooking of recipes made on a professional Inox Metal kitchen by chefs from the University of Italian Cuisine directed by Guido Mori, which offers various educational courses in Culinary Arts and Sciences, White Arts and Pastry and in Food and Wine Journalism.