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MOSAICO MENDINI by Stefano Casciani (Edizioni Skira) A book consecrated to the work of the eclectic architect and artist Alessandro Mendini for Bisazza, the Italian industry that brought glass mosaics to a new contemporary splendour. The author is a designer and writer and has been co-operating with Mendini for a long time. From important architectures, like the Groningen Museum, to exhibitions and sculptures, the book presents works and projects by Mendini, his Atelier and other artists showcased in the collection of the Fondazione Bisazza in Alte, Vicenza.
EVI’S PUPPENKLINIK & TEDDYWERKSTATT Augsburg, Frauentorstr. 18 Eva Maria Haschler is not only famous amongst collectors and antique dealers, but above all amongst children. Her shop-workshop is in downtown Augsburg: here, packed deep in a variety of dolls, plush toys, modern and old games is her toy hospital, reknown even as far as Australia and the USA, from where the most desperate “cases” arrive to be healed. Her expertise derives also from her early start, when she was still a girl, to assemble parts and learn the mechanisms in the toy factory of her parents. Then Eva refi ned her skills opening a lab with her husband Harald, to bring back to life dolls made of porcelain, cellulose, rags, as well as plush animals and vintage tin toys. With great patience and competence the Haschlers repair simple toys and complex mechanisms, replace glass eyes, wigs and mend dresses with wool, cotton, nylon, silk and viscose. According to the materials, they prepare pastes in papier-mâche, stucco, clay, wood, leather, then join them all with special glues and resins, and paint the surfaces till the mending is invisible. In Eva and Harald Haschler’s shop it is also possible to find collector’s games, as well as antique pieces. www.puppenklinik-augsburg.de
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BULGARI. 125 ANS DE MAGNIFICENCE ITALIENNE by Amanda Triossi (Edizioni Skira) On the occasion of the exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris to celebrate 125 years of creativity, Skira is publishing an edition of the catalogue with over 90 photos of rare jewels. Over 600 precious objects from the end of the 19th century to the present day, many of which belonged to celebrities, are linked with original photos and preparatory technical drawings, in an interesting journey through the history of goldsmithing and society. Triossi is an expert of jewels and curator of the Bulgari Vintage Collection. MAESTRI DEL FARE Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice, Isabella Medicina (Marsilio) An interesting and passionate socio-economic survey, commissioned by the Fondazione Cologni and the Scuola Cova in Milan, on the demand for artisanal jobs in the area of Milan, with particular reference to the business areas of fashion, furniture and jewellery. Through the many interviews to some of the master craftsmen, ateliers and leading companies, as well as to the institutions of reference, the book draws an unusual portrait of the contemporary crafts of excellence, the problems they are facing and above all their remarkable cultural and economic importance. ARTIGIANI, VISIONARI E MANAGER by Giorgio Brunetti (Edizioni Bollati Boringhieri) From the 16th century merchants of the Venetian Arsenale to the financial crisis of today, a long story of work, conquests, sufferance and inventions. Giorgio Brunetti, professor at Ca’ Foscari in Venice and Bocconi University in Milan, tells us the peculiarities, potentialities, critical points, conquests and continuous challenges of craftsmanship, to make this complex organisation as functional as possible in the contemporary economy. THE KIMONO: HISTORY AND STYLE Sacico Ito, Etsuko Yamashita (Edizioni Pie International, Rizzoli New York) The story of the Kimono, a dress that in its millennial history never ceased to be the typical garment of Japanese tradition and is still worn today to official ceremonies and on special occasions. Sacico Ito is costume and production designer with an experience of many movies and fashionable dresses. Etsuko Yamashita is the head of a kimono school teaching the techniques to create this elegant garment that has never gone out of fashion in Japan ever since the 8th century.
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