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23/04/2018

The Quelle Tre brand is to an extent the story of three sisters, Cecilia, Luciana and Cristiana, who over time have acquired the gift of creating garments in which the highest quality is combined with peerless originality.
Their collections, displayed in the namesake shop, are not inspired by the fashion of the moment but are closer to the study of the compositions and colours of the artistic avant-gardes of the early twentieth century, models that these three extraordinary women are eminently capable of transfiguring in their creations.
These are coloured creations, collections of unusual and timeless shapes, all made up in precious and elegant fabrics from original models. Inside this very special boutique the real challenge will be to find a garment that fails to stimulate the curiosity and sense of play that we all have within us.

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17/04/2018

There are literally no words to describe the wonders that await us inside the Atelier Bianco Bianchi. The works produced using the ancient scagliola technique constitute a magnificent illusion. Tables, frames, borders and objects here are the fruit of consummate skill, long experience, meticulous ex*****on and, above all, a consuming passion for this craft. All these elements come together to make these works in scagliola authentic masterpieces, evidence of an ancient art that has been kept alive down to our own times by this extraordinary family.

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03/04/2018

Booking a special guided tour in Florence with Go2Artisans is quick and easy!
In just a few steps you can purchase a very special experience in Florence, exploring the world of Florentine artistic craftsmanship along an exclusive itinerary in the company of a highly-qualified guide.
1. Choose your Florentine itinerary
You can choose between half-day or full-day tours, and tours that take in the old city centre or the Oltrarno.
You can choose a route that gravitates around one of the museums or historic monuments of Florence or, if you prefer, an itinerary more suitable for children.
2. Select the optional features
Select the date of your Florence itinerary, the number of participants, the language you would prefer the guide to use and an alternative second language. Then fill in your personal details and submit the request!
3. Check your mail
In a short time you will receive a reply email with booking confirmation of the tour and the details to proceed with the payment.
You will receive any additional information from Venturini Viaggi Tour Operator in Florence.
4. Confirmation and… enjoy your trip!
Now you simply finalise your booking by purchasing the tour using one of the available payment methods.
Get out your camera and comfy walking shoes and you’re ready to set off for your Florence tour with Go2Artisans!

26/03/2018

A site symbolic of the culture of Renaissance art, the Horne Museum is a treasure-chest crammed with wonderful masterpieces.
The museum takes its name from the scholar and collector Herbert Percy Horne, who was born in London but fell in love with Florence and made it his home at the end of the nineteenth century. What he has bequeathed to us is a priceless legacy of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, gold and silverware, furnishings, plaques, seals and fabrics.
The most striking aspect of the Horne collection is in fact the unbelievable variety of works and objects which coexist with the utmost consistency and harmony, while also merging perfectly into the display setting in the attractive Palazzo Corsi.
This is a place in which visitors can relive the Florentine past and discover the customs, habits and arts of the city.

In Borgo Santa Croce is the house where the great art historian and artist Giorgio Vasari lived during his last years. The house that he originally rented, which was later given to him by the Grand Duke, has inevitably undergone many modifications and alterations over time.
A wonderful spectacle awaits us in the only room which has remained intact in its original version, known as the “Sala Grande” (or Great Hall): the walls splendidly frescoed by Vasari and his assistants.
These show images related to the subject of the arts, indicating the supremacy over all the others of the art of painting.
The theme is elaborated through scenes drawn from the writings of Pliny, complete with allegorical images and portraits of the artists whose praises Vasari sung in his famous work “Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects”. Consequently it is an extremely evocative place, newly restored to splendour through lengthy recent restoration.

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14/03/2018

The Oltrarno is the part of the city that developed on the south bank of the river. At length considered representative of genuine popular life in the city district, it now conserves all the charm of authenticity in an area packed with art, trattorias and craft workshops. The perfect distance from the old city centre has defended the soul of the “Diladdarno”, as it has always been known by the Florentines who see it as a real and vibrant area. Even now it features the greatest concentration of craft enterprises and antique dealers; the market is still held every Sunday morning and the atmosphere continues to be that of a typical “quartiere”.

Crossing Via De’ Serragli and its beautiful Renaissance and Baroque palazzi, together we discover the way the ancient convents and hospitals have now become delightful little theatres or artists’ studios. Finally we arrive in Via Romana, which as the name suggests is the road leading to Rome, along the route followed by the pilgrims heading towards the Holy Land. Here we also find the Museo della Specola, one of the most original museums in Florence in view of its zoological collections and the famous anatomical waxworks. It was the very first Museum of Physics and Natural History, set up in 1775 by Peter Leopold of Lorraine.

Just a few steps away, also in Via dei Serragli, is the Atelier degli Artigianelli.
It was founded in 1899 as a nursery school for orphaned craft apprentices, and the very first craft workshops were opened here just three years later in 1902 and entrusted to “gifted and intelligent workers”.
Today this institute can be described as a real casket of history and culture which is by now an integral part of the collective memory and the tradition of the San Frediano district.
Here we can discover the ancient techniques connected with artistic paper processing: special paper products, artistic bookbinding, reproduction of marbled and decorated paper as well as the restoration of antique paper and books.

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14/03/2018

Via de’ Serragli in Florence is an intriguing street, packed with art and curiosities. In addition to being one of the most important links between the old city centre and Porta Romana, the area bordering on the old city walls, it has also witnessed great changes over time. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this part of the city underwent extensive redevelopment and new palazzi were constructed. In fact, after the Grand Ducal court moved to Palazzo Pitti all the most prominent families in the city entered into competition to acquire the best plots of land so that they could build splendid residences close to the palace of the Grand Dukes, in a gesture that was symbolic of power and social prestige.

This itinerary takes us along almost the entire length of the street, allowing us to admire Renaissance palazzi and also what were once the convents and the monasteries. In the adjacent Via Santa Maria stands the former convent of San Vincenzo di Annalena, which in the early nineteenth century became what is still the Teatro Goldoni. A little further on we come to what was previously the Cinema Goldoni, where in the 1960s Vittorio Gassman ran his theatre workshop.

A succession of splendid Baroque palazzi line the entire route – Palazzo Rinuccini, Palazzo Antinori and Palazzo Ricasoli – and we can see the broad low arches of the entrance doors where the carriages entered. Finally we come to the Torrigiani Villa and Garden, one of the largest green areas of Florence in the form of a park of almost twenty-five acres that is conserved like a precious gem. The garden surrounding the stunning sixteenth-century residence is the largest green area inside the city walls. It is also an expression of complex masonic symbolism, with grottoes, towers, sculptures and initiation itineraries: a supreme example of the Romantic style of the early nineteenth century.

The craft workshop of Duccio Banchi is an institution in the Oltrarno area. Practically from time immemorial the ancient art of working bronze has been passed on here from father to son, from master to pupil.

Duccio helps us to discover the unbelievable pliancy of this material, and his words also convey to us the passion he brings to the forging of each individual object. Here the only risk we run is that of losing ourselves amidst the shapes, styles and stories of this most singular craft workshop.

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06/03/2018

The facade of San Lorenzo has a curious history and, although incomplete, it is much loved by the Florentines.
It was indeed intended to be finished with a marble facing, and in 1515 a competition was announced that involved architects of the calibre of Raphael, Jacopo Sansovino and Giuliano da Sangallo.

Even Michelangelo produced five designs for the facade of San Lorenzo, although the reasons why none was ever realised remain unknown.
The Old Sacristy, completed in 1428, features a simple and austere spatial concept, underscored by the use of pietra serena sandstone showing off the structural components.
In the Treasury of San Lorenzo and the recently-renovated basement areas we can admire the liturgical accessories and precious reliquaries belonging to the basilica.
Also in the crypt are the tomb of Giovanni di Bicci, the monumental tomb of Cosimo il Vecchio, the tombstone in honour of Donatello and five panels with drawings by Jacopo da Pontormo.

The Chapter Archive consists of manuscript volumes in parchment with leather bindings.
Access to what is one of the most complete and complex documentary records of the Florentine diocese is through the fourteenth-century cloister.

Originally the cloisters overlooked the residences of the canons and the prior and the areas used for communal life, such as the kitchen, the refectory and the chapter room.
The smaller cloister, probably dating to the end of the fourteenth century, represents the oldest part of the monumental complex, the only one that has preserved the features of the building prior to Brunelleschi.

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02/03/2018

The Museum is named after its creator, Stefano Bardini, the great Italian antiquarian and collector who – after many years of commercial business – decided to transform his collection into a museum. For this purpose, in 1881 he purchased the thirteenth-century church and convent of San Gregorio della Pace and converted them into a palazzo in the neoclassical style that was in vogue at the time. In this way he created a singular purpose-built museum, utilising salvaged elements from demolished buildings, architectural fragments and monumental features.

The rooms of the palazzo, which were specifically arranged by Bardini as exhibition galleries, were filled with a vast collection of sculptures, paintings, furnishings, ceramics, tapestries, weapons and musical instruments. The building was conceived not only as a private museum but also as elegant premises to be used for reception purposes. It also comprised several storerooms for the works and for materials and workshops where the antiques were restored prior to sale.

On the death of Stefano Bardini in 1922 the museum was left to the Florence City Council and transformed into the civic museum of the city. The works acquired by the antiquarian were joined by other items from the municipal collections, including the statue of the wild boar known as the “Porcellino” by Pietro Tacca and Giambologna’s “Diavolino”.

This is therefore a site of great impact which now represents an outstanding illustration of collecting, antiques and artistic craftsmanship between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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27/02/2018

Just a few steps away, also in Via dei Serragli, is the CFC Mosaici & Scagliole workshop, situated inside the Institut Pio X.

It was founded in 1899 as a nursery school for orphaned craft apprentices, and the very first craft workshops were opened here just three years later in 1902 and entrusted to “gifted and intelligent workers”.

Today this Institute can be described as a real casket of history and culture which is by now an integral part of the collective memory and the tradition of the San Frediano district.

Inside the Institut you will discover the art of painting with the stones in the CFC bottega, where masters highly skilled in the ancient “scagliola” technique are at work to create mosaics and marble table tops, floors, coatings, interior design accessories reminding the well known artistic masterpieces of the past.

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30/01/2018

DISCOVER THE WORLD OF FLORENTINE CRAFTSMANSHIP!

There’s another more unusual Florence which lives and works off the classic tourist routes.
There are small craft workshops that are a precious casket of history, art and life.
There’s a Florence just waiting to be discovered: the Florence of the craft workshops!

You can choose between our half-day and full-day tours:

Half day (3h)
-Via De' Serragli: discover a bronzesmith, a fashion atelier and a goldsmith designer
-The Oltrarno: the Florentine goldsmithery tradition, decorated paper and a tea workshop
-San Frediano's neighborhood: decorated paper, vivaciuos jewels, and fashion boutiques
-Via Tornabuoni's fashion: unique jewels, magnificent hats, household linens and lingerie
-Ponte Vecchio's magic: discover artistic perfumes, silver creations and the “Scagliola” technique
-Santa Croce: Horne Museum, a Florentine perfumery and the “Leatherworking school”
-Santo Spirito's neighborhood: cabinetmaking and frames, bijoux and fashion boutiques
-Florentine leather: Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, bespoke footwear and the “Leatherworking school”
-Golden Oltrarno: goldmith's shops and the “Tesoro dei Granduchi” Museum
-Florentine's fragrance: perfumeries, spice shops and ancient apothecaries

Full Day (6h)
-Ponte Vecchio's magic: artistic perfumes, silver creations, the “Scagliola” technique and the “Tesoro dei Granduchi” Museum
-San Lorenzo's neighborhood: a goldsmith's shop, frames, mosaics and the ancient “Commesso fiorentino”
-Piazza Pitti: mosaics, “Tesoro dei Granduchi” Museum, a goldsmith's shop and the “Jewellery's school”
-San Niccolò: bespoke footwear, a goldsmith's atelier and the “Bardini Museum, Villa and Garden”
-Santa Croce: Horne Museum, Casa Vasari Museum, a Florentine perfumery and the “Leatherworking school”
-Florentine fashion: Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, bespoke footwear, lingerie and household linens

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26/01/2018

The Tesoro dei Granduchi, or the Medici Treasury (ex Argenti Museum), occupies the ground and mezzanine floors of the magnificent Palazzo Pitti.
This museum is a casket containing priceless treasures: collections of rare and precious objects which were collected over the centuries by the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.
Together we will discover the magnificent vases in semi-precious stones that belonged to Lorenzo il Magnifico and the sixteenth-century pieces executed by the Mannerist artists, finally arriving at the collection of amber brought to Florence by Maria Maddalena d’Austria.
After this, our exploration continues with the collections of glyptics and Medici jewellery.
The silverware after which the museum was named comes from what was called the Salzburg Treasury, that is the collection belonging to the bishops of Salzburg brought to Florence by Ferdinand III of Lorraine in 1815.

A visit to this museum is an enchanting journey through time embellished by precious artefacts and objects of everyday use. These illustrate the consummate skill of gifted craftsmen and the sophistication of the commissioners, as well as the extraordinary wealth and refined taste of the Medici dynasty.

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18/01/2018

Go2Artisans goes to Madrid!

Another meeting day in Fitur 2018 - Feria Internacional de Turismo

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