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Contributors
ARTISANS OF THE WORD JEAN-MICHEL DELISLE
GIOVANNA MARCHELLO
Engineer, he has managed a century-old company specialised in refined lighting elements for 30 years. He is a member of the Comité Colbert et Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant. He is currently President of the Arts and Crafts National Institute and a member of the Paris Chamber of Commerce.
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.
CARLA SONEGO
STEFANIA MONTANI
After graduating with a degree thesis on the formative years of Carlo Scarpa from IUAV Venice, she continued to study the work of the Venetian architect. She has examined themes on the decorative arts and twentiethcentury Murano glass, publishing studies and taking part in exhibitions on the subject.
A journalist, she has published two guides to Milan’s artisan ateliers, and a guide to the artisan ateliers of Turin. She was awarded the Gabriele Lanfredini prize by Milan’s Chamber of Commerce for her contribution to raising awareness of culture and craftsmanship.
GALINA STOLYAROVA
AKEMI OKUMURA ROY
Chief reporter of the St. Petersburg Times, she is a critic of art, opera and film. She has written about the most important cultural festivals in Russia and Europe. She works with numerous publications, and is co-author of the Fodor guide to Moscow and St. Petersburg, including the ninth edition published in the USA.
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.
VIRGINIA VILLA
LARA LO CALZO
Didactic coordinator of the Civic Violinmakers School of Milan. Member of the Board of the Italian Violinmakers Association, since 2005 she has been the director of Cremona’s Stradivari Foundation. She set up the international Friends of Stradivari network, which has brought 10 historical violins to Cremona.
She loves travelling to Africa and the Caribbean, where she studies traditional dances and rites. After working for several years for Cartier, for whom she organised events in Italy and abroad, she began her writing activity when she translated in Italian The Secrets of Vacheron Constantin.
VALENTINA CERIANI
EDOARDO PERRI
At a very young age she started to breathe the air of the newspaper trade. She hit the world of women’s magazines and went on to work with tourism publications, before ending up with a definitive role in the men’s magazine, Monsieur.
Creative director of the Creolo studio and founder of Whomade.it, a consultancy company for avantcraft and designer brands with added human value. Passionate about art and interculture, he refined his conceptual skills at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Holland, and teaches at Eindhoven’s Design Academy.
Editor at Large: Gianluca Tenti Art Director: Francesca Tedoldi Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte Director Alberto Cavalli Editorial Director: Alessandra de Nitto General Organisation: Susanna Ardigò
ARTS & CRAFTS & DESIGN Half-yearly – Year II – Volume 2 April 2013 Editor in Chief and Publisher: Franz Botré Editorial Director: Franco Cologni Creative Director: Ugo La Pietra
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Contributors to this issue: Conceição Amaral, Augusto Bassi, Andrea Bertuzzi, Valentina Ceriani, Simona Cesana, Jean-Michel Delisle, Lara Lo Calzo, Giovanna Marchello, Stefania Montani, Akemi Okumura Roy, Edoardo Perri, Luciano Revelli, Carla Sonego, Galina Stolyarova, Juan-Carlos Torres, Virginia Villa.
Translations: Traduko Revision and text adaptation: Giovanna Marchello Images: Cappellini, Cristian Chiodelli, Contrasto, Alberto Ferrero, Pasquale Formisano, John Maybury, Fredi Marcarini, – Kiminasa Naito, Kazuhiko Ohori, Emiliano Ponzi, Laila Pozzo, Oliver Rath, Charlie Xia, Emanuele Zamponi. Arts & Crafts & Design is a project by Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte Via Lovanio, 5 – 20121 Milan www.fondazionecologni.it © Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte. All rights reserved. Original manuscripts and photos will not be returned, even if unpublished. Texts and images cannot be reproduced, even partially.
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