Live-Talk of Sat. May 22
Who is Marisa Convento
Marisa Convento is a “resident” artisan who works at Bottega Cini: she creates jewels with the ancient techniques of Venetian bead threaders. She is also vice president of the Committee for the Safeguarding of the Art of Venetian Glass Beads which recently obtained the IHC Unesco recognition for the Art of Glass Beads.
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Who is Bottega Cini
Bottega Cini is a new Concept Store aiming to be a point of dialogue between Venetian culture and companies and to create a new type of museum shop, a Renaissance workshop reinterpreted in a contemporary key.
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Description
We will meet the Impiraressa, Marisa Convento, one Venice most famous glass beds jewellery designer. We will talk about what an impiraress is, the importance of handmade products and about the recent Unesco recognition for the Art of Glass Beads. We will do this at Bottega Cini, where is she is resident artisan. Bottega Cini is a concept store, a shop of wonders, an artisan workshop: a true new innovative way to present Venice to the world. The excellence of Venetian craftsmanship gathered under one roof: Murano glass and beads, perfumes and oar lock. Venice at its best.
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