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Jewellery with 3500-year-old wood

by admin In Blog, ecofashion, Inspirations, Woodwork

This is a story about plains, along the meanders of Po river. A new adventure for us too. Always dealing with wood, in cabinet making, sculpture and artistic restoration, I obviously knew bog oak. It is called a semi-fossil wood: not yet fossil, but on the way to become it.It is well known for pipes making, it is also used for luxury furniture and furnishings.While participating in international fairs, we recently met a company that sells bog oak, at staggering Read More

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A sustainable wood supply chain

by admin In Blog, Woodwork

We cover so many different areas and a lots of them are interesting also for sustainable and circular economy, such as our research for ecological materials, wood and resins. We usually don’t buy commercial wood, on the contrary we often select wild wood essences around the place we live, or thanks to the help of gardeners and farmers around Italy.For exotic essences, we had bought and carefully recycled little wood stocks from craftsmen that were closing their business. Our wood Read More

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Love Jewels, contemporary jewellery exhibition

by admin In Awards, Blog, Contemporary jewelry, Events, Exhibitions

I am happy to be one of the artists chosen for the exhibition organized by Smitten Collective at Multiple, a contemporary jewellery gallery in Hasselt, Belgium.The exhibition’s theme is LOVE in all its expressions. It is open until September the 1st 2018.Spread the love!   My “Hearts” collection, handmade resin pendants, see on my e-shop. Photo credits: Smitten Collective

Our Wooden Jewelry goes to University

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The 10th of November from 13.00 to 17.00 we are invided at L.UN.A., LiberaUniversità delle Arti, Piazza San Martino 4F , Bologna. L.U.N.A. is a private university: “it is the will to grow creative intelligence in design, fashion design and communication”.  Next to the classrom in via Marsala 25/a, Bologna, you can find also  L.U.N.A. Lab Store: the place, opened from 2012, hosts a shop, a place for exhibitions and a prototype lab opened to public.  At Lab Store you can find design, eco-design and Read More

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“Wood and the City” per ART CITY White Night

by Admin In Blog, Contemporary jewelry, Events, Exhibitions

Siamo lieti di invitarvi a una serata davvero speciale! Durante ART CITY White Night, la notte bianca di Arte Fiera a Bologna, il sotterraneo di Borgo22 si trasforma in una casa d’artista, creata per l’occasione grazie all’allestimento a cura di Annalisa Tre. A metà tra mostra e installazione, dal cuore domestico, per farvi scoprire le mie ultime creazioni. Tante novità, gioielli contemporanei ma anche – neanche a dirlo! – home decor. Borgo 22 è a Bologna, in via Borgo di San Read More

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Fashion and design a Dynamo

by Admin In Blog, ecofashion, Events, Exhibitions

Lo scorso weekend abbiamo partecipato all’esposizione di design e autoproduzioni a Dynamo, la velostazione di Bologna. Tra i vari eventi, allo scoccare della mezzanotte la sfilata de Le Giraffe, di Valeria Sacenti: anche Ooak,  la collezione che abbiamo realizzato in collaborazione con la stilista Meike Everaarts, ha sfilato insieme ai modelli de Le Giraffe. Past weekend we take part to handmade and design exhibition at Dynamo, bike station in Bologna. Between others events, at midnight a fashion show took place, by Le Giraffe, di Valeria Sacenti: Ooak, Read More

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“Faun” bangle wins international jewelry award

by Admin In Blog, Contemporary jewelry, ecofashion, Events

“Faun” bangle wins international jewelry award “Gioiellodentro Design 20.15”. With “Reskate” pendant it takes part at art jewels exhibition at Abate Zanetti glass school in Murano, Venice. Open until 2nd Ocotber. Il bracciale “Faun” si è aggiudicato uno dei premi del concorso internazionale Gioiellodentro Design 20.15. Insieme al collier “Reskate” è esposto alla mostra presso la scuola del vetro Abate Zanetti, nella splendida cornice di Murano, Venezia. La mostra sarà aperta fino al 2 ottobre.        

Made in Bologna – guida al design indipendente

by Admin In Blog, ecofashion

Siamo lieti di annunciare l’uscita in libreria di Made in Bologna, un progetto di Silvia Santachiara, Silvia Gaiani e Alessandro Boselli, edito da Giraldi Editore. Made in Bologna è la prima guida per città che raccoglie i più innovativi designer/makers emiliani e accompagna il lettore in un viaggio alla scoperta di negozi, showroom, laboratori in cui trovare le loro creazioni. Siamo felici di essere una delle cinquantanove realtà raccontate nel libro, parte del fermento creativo e del design indipendente sul territorio bolognese. Read More

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Wooden Memories – Art City White Night

by Admin In Blog, Contemporary jewelry, ecofashion, Events, Exhibitions

Saturday 24th January 2015, 17.00 – 22.00, Bologna – during Art City White Night @Art Hotel Orologio. Exhibition/tableau vivant with our jewels and wood accessories. Like a picture, or better a daguerreotype, faded and ruined by time, ethereal and bohemienne, to create a dandy British atmospheres and to let guests feel curious and be amazed, like a into a daydream. A special occasion to present “Ooak”, a project made in collaboration with Meike Everaarts, Dutch fashion designer and maker. Ooak: “One Of A Kind”, like our  unique Read More

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“Into the wood” workshop

by Admin In Blog, Contemporary jewelry, Events, Exhibitions, workshops

8 workshop per l’evento veronese sul design “Do you speak Made in Italy?” Insieme a Ferdi Giardini, Giovanni Casellato, Manuela Bedeschi, Sotirios Papadopoulos, Mimmo Demattia e Annalisa Mirizzi di NALJ Jewels, Fabio Capanni con Velux Italia prenderemo parte alla mostra-workshop Do you speak Made in Italy?, dedicata al Fare Design. L’evento si svolgerà i prossimi 24 e 25 settembre nel Loggiato e nella sala Buvette del Palazzo della Gran Guardia di Verona, in occasione delle manifestazioni Marmomacc, Abitare il Tempo e Promenade Verona che coinvolgono la Read More

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Per un nuovo tempo

by Admin In Blog, Inspirations

Vogliamo scrivere su questo blog anche lanciando stimoli e condividendo idee. L’ispirazione questa volta è arrivata con un pensiero di William Morris, tra i fondatori di Art and Crafts, un movimento che nell’Inghilterra dell’Ottocento si confrontava con l’industrializzazione dirompente. Un movimento artistico e intellettuale che metteva però al centro i saperi artigianali. Leggiamo da Wikipedia alcune riflessioni di Art and Crafts: considera l’artigianato come espressione del lavoro dell’uomo e dei suoi bisogni, ma soprattutto come valore durevole nel tempo e tende a Read More