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Contributors
ARTISANS OF THE WORD MASSIMO BIGNARDI
Teaches Contemporary Art History, Environmental Art and Landscape Architecture at the University of Siena, where he is head of the School of Specialisation in Historical and Artistic Heritage. Since 2002 he directs the Baronissi Museumregional fund for contemporary art.
After managing communication for major luxury brands, she left Tokyo and her native Japan to follow her husband, an English photographer, to London, where she is a correspondent for many Japanese media.
GIOVANNA MARCHELLO
ISABELLA VILLAFRANCA SOISSONS
Grown up in an international environment, spacing from Japan to Finland and Italy, she is a lover of English literature. She lives in Milan, where she has worked in the fashion business for 20 years, specialising in licensing.
After graduating in Architectural Restoration at the Turin Polytechnic she specialised in Restoration in Florence. She returned to Milan after a long career as a curator in New York and London, and is the director of Open Care restoration and conservation laboratories.
ALI FILIPPINI
VINCENT LEMARCHANDS
ALESSANDRA MELDOLESI
STEFANO FOLLESA
CAROLINE ROBERTS
JULIE EL GHOUZZI
He graduated in design from Venice’s IUAV University with a thesis on the history of exhibiting from the perspective of goods and culture. He cooperates with trade magazines, combining journalism and publishing with his work as lecturer and curator.
After the university, she experienced the coup de feu and the coup de foudre for high cuisine behind Paris forneaux. She is now a passionate food writer mingling knowledge and flavours, a journalist and specialised translator, with a true knack for avantgarde cuisine.
She lives in Hong Kong and has extensive experience in the world of luxury, having worked in the Asia-Pacific region for brands such as Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani and Dolce & Gabbana. She runs a successful marketing and communication consultancy business and coordinates numerous publishing projects.
ARTS & CRAFTS & DESIGN Half-yearly – Year III – Volume 5 December 2014 Editor in Chief and Publisher: Franz Botré Editor at Large: Franco Cologni Creative Director: Ugo La Pietra Editorial Director: Gianluca Tenti Art Director: Francesca Tedoldi
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Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte Director: Alberto Cavalli Editorial Director: Alessandra de Nitto General Organisation: Susanna Ardigò Contributors to this issue: Texts: Augusto Bassi, Andrea Bertuzzi, Massimo Bignardi, Alessandro Botré, Federica Cavriana, Simona Cesana, D&L Servizi editoriali, Julie El Ghouzzi, Ali Filippini, Stefano Follesa, Vincent Lemarchands, Giovanna Marchello, Alessandra Meldolesi, Stefania Montani, Akemi Okumura Roy, Caroline Roberts, Hedwige Sautereau, Mattia Schieppati, Isabella Villafranca Soissons
Co-founder of the Totem group in 1980, he coordinated Saint-Étienne’s first Biennial of Design. He teaches at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Saint-Étienne and is president of Hs-Projets. He developed a design methodology for engineers and plastic technicians that is based on “co-conception”.
Architect and designer, he is lecturer at the DIDA Department of the University of Florence. He writes books on architecture and design and curates exhibitions and events. He lives and works in Florence where he has his own professional studio.
She holds an MA in Philosophy from both the Sorbonne University and the University of Bologna and an MA in Art History. In 2007 she was appointed director of the Centre du Luxe et de la Création in Paris, the prestigious think tank and do tank for luxury and métiers d’art.
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