Lorenzo Cagnoni Archives

Precious peace for Oroarezzo

Published on April 13, 2022

Ulivi a Vicenzaoro. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Countdown to Oroarezzo (from 7 to 10 May), who after the covid must now deal with the uncertainties caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Thus, after the olive tree symbolically planted at the entrance to the fair that hosted Vicenzaoro in March, the concept will also be reaffirmed by the event scheduled in the Tuscan city. In fact, the set-up also includes in this case the trees that symbolize peace, the olive trees, at the entrance to Arezzo Fiere e Congressi.

Life is a precious art. A jewel between past and present, between near and distant cultures that creates novelty and beauty. Agreements of light, splendor and peace.
Beppe Angiolini, artistic director of Oroarezzo

The event dedicated to the Italian and international excellences of goldsmithing, organized by Ieg (Italian Exhibition Group) brings together the first part of the supply chain, from goldsmiths to cash and carry, with an eye to technological innovation, already underlined at the entrance to the district fair that reopens its doors to the business of the sector.

Three years after the last edition, the preparations for Oroarezzo can only be accompanied by the satisfaction of finally finding ourselves in favorable conditions to ensure that it will take place in the presence of a decisive appointment for the gold and jewelery business. It is the testimony of the unanimous commitment and an ever stronger dialogue with the Arezzo industry protagonists, institutions and trade associations. The collaboration continues with the stakeholders of a fundamental district for the success of Made in Italy jewelery in the world, always alongside IEG in the numerous initiatives with which we have kept the spotlight on this territory even during the pandemic – from Premiere Digital Edition in 2020 at We Are Jewelery and at the First Italian Jewelery Summit last year, in addition to international events such as Vicenzaoro and JGT Dubai – it proved to be strategic in the overall recovery of the entire sector.
Lorenzo Cagnoni, president of Italian Exhibition Group

Voice did it, a doubt remains

Published on September 14, 2020

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It is easy to imagine the president of Ieg (the company that organizes Vicenzaoro), Lorenzo Cagnoni, last spring in the Hamlet version, while reciting the famous monologue: to be or not to be? That is the question. That is: to be Vicenzaoro, and to propose again one of the most important appointments in the world for jewelry, or not to be and cancel the appointment, as other trade fairs have done? With some courage the company has chosen to be a third way: Voice.

Defined as a jewelry summit, Voice has proved to be first of all an attempt to restart the sector, requested first of all by Italian companies. Being able to set up Voice, despite the health emergency is still a ball and chain for the business, is already a success. Of course, the organizers stressed, we shouldn’t expect it to be was the usual Vicenzaoro with the only difference in the masks to wear. And while many big brands have chosen to be present, others, especially those that sell a lot abroad, have deserted the appointment. It was predictable.

But, in any case, the official balance sheet indicates 370 companies present, a hundred speakers in the over 600 business matching meetings organized by Ieg (one third online), with a dense schedule of appointments, seminars, conferences and talk shows. In the virtual buyers rooms, created to make up for the reduced presence of foreign buyers, over 200 commercial exchanges took place. The contents generated in the pavilions have had over 3.5 million views on digital channels. Voice, in fact, blended the physical presence at the fair with online channels. A sober, but not spartan, staging has kept the balance with the atmosphere of challenge to the stop caused by the coronavirus.

In short, it went well. But the Hamletic dilemma will arise again shortly, given that the next appointment is called, for now, Vicenzaoro January. To be or not to be? Is it possible to propose a fair like the one in previous years if the pandemic has not completely ceased or, at least, has also been reduced from a psychological point of view? Or will Ieg be induced to re-propose the Voice format? The one held in Vicenza was been the only event dedicated to jewelery from February onwards in the world. It was a risk, but we can say that the game was won. With a little out of wheezing, though.

Vetrina di Roberto Coin. Copyright: gioiellis.com

VicenzaOro is came back

Published on January 18, 2018

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VicenzaOro starts, between luxury and technology (with a bit of worldliness) ♦ ︎
VicenzaOro (19-24 January) is came back.Ieg group, that organizes the fair, defines it as “the biggest European show dedicated to jewelery and jewelery”. And, in fact, if we also consider the concomitant TGold, the numbers are there. More than a fair, in fact, word now that tastes a bit ‘old, VicenzaOro prefers to label itself as a business hub, a platform for jewelry deals, at the service of the 4500 companies involved, of which 35% foreign, with 96 thousand visitors expected from over 130 countries and 3800 top buyers hosted thanks to the help of the government, ie with the decisive contribution of the Ministry of Economic Development and ICE.
And the proof that VicenzaOro has been transformed into a format is its replication in other markets, such as Dubai. In fact, today the fair born in Vicenza organizes five salons in the world and is present at ten international events. In 2018, for example, beyond Vicenza will be in Hong Kong, Arezzo, Las Vegas, Dubai, Mumbai.
But VicenzaOro is also jewelry of all kinds, high, medium, low, for fashion, or components. And T.Gold is a salon dedicated to tools for jewelry production sector, in which Italy excels. In fact, T.Gold enjoys excellent health: this year the number of exhibitors has increased by more than 20% thanks to the entry of important names in the sector such as the British Durston and the German Hemerle + Meule. In total there are over 160 exhibiting companies, from 16 countries in the world, in particular from Italy, Germany, United States. Among the reasons of interest is the growth of the 3D printing segment and its solutions.
The prizes at the jewel
With the opening of VicenzaOro the Andrea Palladio International Jewelery Awards are back for the fifth edition, with the awarding of prizes to the excellence of luxury and top players of world jewelry that have stood out for their creativity, design, production, distribution , retail, communication, new media, career award and Corporate Social Responsibility. The latter fits into the strand of sustainable jewelery, to which VicenzaOro has also decided to dedicate an appointment with Cibjo, the world jewelery confederation.
To decree the winners, in the presence of the president of IEG, Lorenzo Cagnoni, the vice president, Matteo Marzotto, and the general manager, Corrado Facco, will be a jury composed by Franco Cologni, president of the Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte Foundation, Clare Phillips , curator of the Department of Sculpture, Handicraft of iron, glass and ceramics of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Alba Cappellieri, Professor of Jewelery Design at the Polytechnic of Milan, Silvana Annichiarico, Director of the Triennale Design Museum.

indossato pasquale bruni 1 — Modella nel booth di Pasquale Bruni

Palladio awards to Koulis, Mennella and Antonini

Published on January 22, 2017

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Sergio Antonini alla premiazione dei Palladio Awards

At Palladio Awards, win prizes the creatives Nikos Koulis, Faraone Mennella and Antonini.
Call them the Oscar of jewelry. Definition easy to understand, but inappropriate. If only because Italy has a tradition in the jewelry that has nothing to envy to that of other countries. In addition, between Palladio and the prizes reserved to the big of cinema there is a big distance, even as history and culture. That said, here are the winners of 2017 (the fifth) of Palladio awards, assigned in Vicenza to the jewelry world. Which then, as commented in the stands VicenzaOro a designer who prefers to remain anonymous, is fair to put together in competition giants as Cartier and Boucheron, which have large capital to invest with small Italian companies, it is another matter.
The winners of this fifth edition, divided by category, are :
The best italian jewelery designer: Faraone Mennella.
The best international jewelery designers: Nikos Koulis.
The best italian jewelery brand collection: Antonini Milan to Syracuse collection.
The best international jewelery brand collection: Boucheron for Animaux de collection collection.
The best jewelery flagship store: Nirav Modi for the New York store.
The best jewelery communication campaign: the campaign for Cartier Diamonds.
Jewellery corporate social responsibility award: chopard for the commitment to the project with eco-age.
The best jewelery communication: new media at Nervous System
The lifetime achievement award: Franco Cologni, president Cologni Foundation for arts and crafts.
In the night that has proclamed the winners, and simultaneously kicked off in VicenzaOro January, there were the president of the Italian Exhibition Group, Lorenzo Cagnoni, the vice president Matteo Marzotto, and the general manager, Corrado Facco. The jury was composed by Franco Cologni, President of Jury and Chairman Cologni Foundation for arts and crafts (curiously the same that received the lifetime achievement award), Clare Phillips, curator of the Sculpture Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Alba Cappellieri, a professor of Jewellery Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Silvana Annichiarico, director of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.

Nikos Koulis alla premiazione dei Palladio Awards

Corrado Facco legge i nomi dei vincitori dei Palladio Awards

Collezione Siracusa, oro giallo e diamanti

Collana Ice Princess di Faraone Mennella

Boucheron, Pegasus, anello in oro bianco con ametista ovale 1,5 carati, 29 zaffiri viola, 71 zaffiri blu, 200 diamanti e 29 ametiste tondi, 2 zaffiri blu cabochon

The Museo del Gioiello goes for two

Published on December 17, 2016

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The Museum of the Jewel of Vicenza is renewed for the biennium of life, new pieces, new curators, same nice offer.
The Museum of the Jewel of Vicenza from the beginning it is presented as a kind of chameleon: the exhibits are top quality but inevitably change over time. Every two years, the jewels return to their respective owners and are replaced by others. The second cycle is just beginning: the 2017-2018 edition was inaugurated in the presence of ten new international curators. And, in addition to new jewelery, there is also an institutional innovation: the Museum, wanted with strength and perseverance by Matteo Marzotto, until now president of the Vicenza Fair, it’s now headed by the new company born from the union between the Vicenza structure and Rimini, namely Italian Exhibition Group. That’s why the start for the new cycle was given by Lorenzo Cagnoni, President of Italian Exhibition Group. Marzotto remains, however, as vice president of the new company: “From the first day of public opening of the Jewel Museum has proved a winning idea. Authoritative center of gravity of the cultural universe story goldsmith and jewelery, innovation and a refined search” he explained. “Deeply rooted and logistically in Vicenza, one of the world capitals of the jewel, expresses with his unique personality high international vocation; particularly appreciated not only for the quality of guardianship, but also to the origin and excellence of the exhibits, the many Italian and foreign visitors welcomed, for the unusual museum suitable for all audiences. A global profile that will be further enhanced thanks to the new exhibition and cooperation of the new curators in the next biennium 2017-18.”
The news
The museum space is over 410 square meters and is edited and directed by Alba Cappellieri, a professor of Jewellery Design at the Politecnico di Milano. It now features a new selection with 400 jewels, excellence and prestige, selected according to the sensitivity of the new curators of internationally involved, as Glenn Adamson, director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Nicolas Bos, President & Ceo of Van Cleef & Arpels, the art critic and collector Helen Drutt English, the anthropologist Cristina Del Mare, the art historian Alessandra Poss, Stefano Piaggi, Director of Archive Anna Piaggi, Marco Romanelli, architect and designer, the art historian and author Paola Venturelli, the award-winning designer Odo Fioravanti.
The museum
First in Italy and one of the few in the world dedicated exclusively to the jewel located inside the Palladian Basilica in Vicenza, historic building from the XVI century, Unesco World Heritage Site since 1994, the Jewel Museum in two years after its opening, December 24, 2014, recorded 34,000 visitors.

Van Cleef & Arpels, clip Felce, platino, oro giallo, zaffiri, diamanti, 1947

Pendente del Nepal, oro, corallo, rubini, smeraldi, XIX secolo

Alexander Calder, spilla Butterfly, 1940

Castellani e Tommaso Saulini, cammeo papale in conchiglia, oro filigranato, 1883

Ugo Correani, metallo, ottone, plastica, anni Ottanta

Lella e Massimo Vignelli, collana Senza Fine, argento, 1992

Giampiero Bodino, chocker Rosa dei Venti, spinello rosso, zaffiri blu e gialli, smeraldo, ametista, diamanti, oro rosa, 2013

Nicolas Bos, Van Cleef & Arpels — Nicolas Bos, presidente & Ceo di Van Cleef & Arpels