Working in a company like Omega is a bit like being teammates: in order to win the match, and make every day the best gloves in the world, you need that every team member gives his 100%. When I visited Mauro Squillace’s manufactory, it was explained to me that these magnificent gloves need 25 different […]
The Nativity scene (that we Italians call presepe) is an incredibly ancient Italian tradition. According to the legend, Saint Francis of Assisi designed it in the village of Greccio, when he was back to Italy from his journey to Sacred Land. Believe it or not, what is certain is that in the Middle Age this […]
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Who’d have thought that in the center of one of the folk districts of Naples, on the top floor of a dilapidated building, in a untidy and smoky office, there was such a manufactory…? We always hear that Naples is a city with one thousand contradictions: I never found this expression so fitting like when […]
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That’s a question we often ask when we face a good artisan’s work. A good carpenter, a good tailor, a good shoemaker, a good ceramist can make pieces of work so good to make us believe they are artworks. But art is an important word; a tough one. You can’t pronounce it lightly So, when […]
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It often happens that the most authentic features of the culture of an area, if particularly stimulant, go around the world, become famous, are known by anybody. If on one hand that’s surely positive (it’s one of the miracles of the age we live in), on the other hand it makes these features lose their […]
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Watchword: specialization
on the artisans pathWorking in a company like Omega is a bit like being teammates: in order to win the match, and make every day the best gloves in the world, you need that every team member gives his 100%. When I visited Mauro Squillace’s manufactory, it was explained to me that these magnificent gloves need 25 different […]
Jesus was born in Naples in 1700
ExperiencesThe Nativity scene (that we Italians call presepe) is an incredibly ancient Italian tradition. According to the legend, Saint Francis of Assisi designed it in the village of Greccio, when he was back to Italy from his journey to Sacred Land. Believe it or not, what is certain is that in the Middle Age this […]
Who’d have thought?
on the artisans pathWho’d have thought that in the center of one of the folk districts of Naples, on the top floor of a dilapidated building, in a untidy and smoky office, there was such a manufactory…? We always hear that Naples is a city with one thousand contradictions: I never found this expression so fitting like when […]
Art or handicraft?
Experiences, on the artisans pathThat’s a question we often ask when we face a good artisan’s work. A good carpenter, a good tailor, a good shoemaker, a good ceramist can make pieces of work so good to make us believe they are artworks. But art is an important word; a tough one. You can’t pronounce it lightly So, when […]
Against the trivialization
ExperiencesIt often happens that the most authentic features of the culture of an area, if particularly stimulant, go around the world, become famous, are known by anybody. If on one hand that’s surely positive (it’s one of the miracles of the age we live in), on the other hand it makes these features lose their […]