Florence Jewellery Week Archives

In May the Florence Jewelery Week

Published on December 23, 2021

Florence Jewelery Week will be held from 28 April to 2 May. The event dedicated to jewelery will take place between various museums and galleries with exhibitions, meetings and events dedicated to contemporary jewelery and new technologies. There is also a novelty in the Florence Jewelery Week: Le Arti Orafe eArtigianato and Palazzo launch the first edition of Preziosa Makers, a new initiative created to support the artistic goldsmith sector affected by the pandemic. The project offers visibility and space to many creatives who will be able to present their works to the FJW public, for a direct marketing of their products after these long and difficult months.

Preziosa Makers will be held at Palazzo Corsini al Prato and is open to designers, artisans and artisans, artists of all ages and from all over the world. The selection will be handled by the organizers. The deadline for submitting applications is next February 25: the 20 selected will have an individual location inside Palazzo Corsini al Prato, which hosts the Artigianato e Palazzo event. Each exhibitor will have a reserved space, with a table, two chairs and one or two cabinets to display the jewels. The individual station costs 500 euros plus taxes, the collective one 250 euros.

Florence Jewelery Week also canceled

Published on April 14, 2020

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Another event related to jewelry has been canceled: Florence Jewelery Week 2020 undergoes coronavirus quarantine. In fact, it is a non-news, even if it was not official.

Since we entered the Covid emergency we have resisted and continued to work on our project as in recent months, every day, imagining the set-ups, the meetings, talking daily with the people involved, with the press office, as if this confinement and this closure did not concern us, that things would be resolved, and we would meet at the end of May in Florence. Instead, we had to take note of reality, and accept that there are now more important things than our project to think about.
Giò Carbone, Lao’s artistic director and Fjw curator

As a result, exhibitions, conferences, seminars and meetings have been canceled. It is not a postponement: a project with these characteristics cannot simply be moved to another date. Difficult to put together the group of artists and the collections that had been involved in a long work of almost two years. For the curator, Giò Carbone, and for the organizers of Lao, the satisfaction remains of having ascertained the esteem, credibility and respect that have been granted to him by those who joined the project.

In Florence a Preziosa Week

Published on May 24, 2017

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In Florence is the time of Preziosa 2017, a week dedicated to jewellery. Here is the agenda ♦
Le Arti Orafe, Lao for the friends, is an esteemed jewelery school that attracts students from all over the world. But it is also the organizer of Preziosa 2017, the Florence Jewelery Week, an event dedicated to the world of jewels, artistic research, craftsmanship and design. It takes place in Florence from 24 to 28 May. In reality, more than just a single event, we have to talk about a series of occasions, organized at the Bellini Museum, Palazzo Coveri Gallery, Botticelli Gallery, the Conservatory Hall of the Church of Santo Spirito and, of course, at Le Arti Orafe Jewelery School, in Via dei Serragli 104.
At Preziosa there are names such as Robert Baines, Sibylle Umlauf, Fuchi Arata, Tasso Mattar and Damien Schwaag, and curators, gallery and critics including Inger Wästberg, Martina Dempf, Maria Cristina Bergesio, Roberta Bernabei and Maria Laura La Mantia. The guest will be Petra Hölscher, representing the Neue Sammlung -The Design Museum at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, which houses the most important collection in the world dedicated to contemporary jewelery. In all, a week dedicated to the jewelery world, with exhibitions, conferences, workshops, meetings, demonstrations, with the aim of highlighting the connection between innovative design and technology, artistic research and traditional craftsmanship that influence contemporary jewelery creation international.
Here is the program
Bellini Museum: works by European, Japanese and Australian artists – only exibition by Fuchi Arata, Robert Baines, Sibylle Umlauf and the exhibition iNÁCARME! Tasso Mattar’s obsession with Mother of Pearl, Danni Schwaag by Tasso Mattar, and New Iranian & Persian jewelry, a selection of works by young artists from the Mahe Mehr Institute in Teheran by Kevin Murray.
Gallery of Palazzo Coveri: shows Preziosa Young 2017, with creations of young talents Fang Jin Yeh, Qian Wang, Shachar Cohen, Xiaodai Huang, international contest winners and representatives of a new generation of artists who have been able to employ new technologies and unusual materials to revitalize the goldsmith tradition of their countries.
Botticelli Gallery: Contemporary Swedish Silver. New approaches to a lingering tradition of the Swedish group Lod Metallformgivning with works by Erik Toudeng, Lena Jerström, Tobias Birgersson, Klara Eriksson, Petronella Eriksson, Pernilla Sylwan, by Inger Wästberg.
Lao: In-depth seminars at the Via dei Serragli, held by Tasso Mattar (Enjoying organic material), Kevin Murray (Promise Object), Robert Baines (Post-doctoral research proposals) and Martina Dempf (Touch wood).
Conservatory Hall of the Holy Spirit Church: meetings and conferences held by jewelers and curators, such as Maria Cristina Bergesio (Alice in the Country of the Contemporary Jewel), Roberta Bernabei (Integrating traditional and high-tech goldsmithing techniques in wearables and jewellery that aid wellbeing ), Maria Laura La Mantia (A small digression on the use of celestial symbols in the form of object or gemstone in jewelery of the eighteenth century), Inger Wästberg (Transformation from craft to art), Shruti Agrawal (Jewelery and Jewelery) by Kevin Murray (Global Art Jewelery) or by the same artists as Preziosa 2017 Florence Jewelery Week: Jewelery on the High Wire, Martina Dempf (Jewelery and wood – An artistic challenge), Tasso Mattar (Jewelry inspired by nature).
Preziosa 2017 – Florence Jewelery Week
ore 17.00 Galleria Botticelli, Via Maggio 39/r
ore 18.00 Galleria di Palazzo Coveri, L.no Guicciardini, 19
ore 19.00 Museo Bellini, L.no Soderini 5
Exhibitions, May 25-28, 9 am-6pm
Bellini Museum, Lungarno Soderini 5,
Gallery of Palazzo Coveri, Lungarno Guicciardini 19,
Galleria Botticelli, Via Maggio 39
Conferences, 26-27 May, 11.00-13.00 / 14.30-18.00
Council Room of the Church of Santo Spirito, Piazza S. Spirito
Seminars, May 25-28, 9 am-6pm
Lao – The Arts Orafe Jewelery School, Via dei Serragli 104
Crafts Presentation, May 28, 11.00-18.00,
Lao – The Arts Orafe Jewelery School, Via dei Serragli 104
Info Point and Secretariat on the days of the event 11.00-18.00
Lao in Palazzo Capponi, Via Michelozzi, 2
Lao – The Arts Orafe Jewelery School
Via dei Serragli 104 – 50124 Florence