The free Design per Tutti talks returns to LevelHUB after the “Architecture and Fashion” event held in OtoLab. On December 5th, the last talk of 2023 will be dedicated to “Glass Jewels” and will feature three professionals and authors who will share their knowledge with the public.
Glass Jewels, the Last 2023’s Design per Tutti Event
Precious ancient finds and the art of glass processing of creating wearable works are the themes of the next Design per Tutti event which returns to its historic headquarters in LevelHUB, La Valletta Brianza. Three professionals will host the “Glass Jewels” evening. Bianca Cappello, author and jewelery historian, Augusto Panini, author and consultant of the Murano Glass Museum and Marina Uboldi, archaeologist specialize in glass reliques.
The Themes of the Event
Bianca Cappello will start with an excursus on the presence of glass in the jewels of twentieth-century Western culture between tradition and modernity, as applications in fashion, design and art. Augusto Panini will give an overview of over thirty centuries to discover the Egyptian, Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine, Lombard, Abbasid and Venetian jewels preserved in the most important museums in the world. Pieces in which glass played a leading role in combination with gold, precious stones, ivory and coral.
Finally, archaeological glass jewels will be the subject of Marina Uboldi‘s talk. In fact, archaeological finds reveal objects linked to the ornamentation of ancient populations: jewels are a very important part of these devices, as they communicate information about the people wearing them, revealing their gender and age, ethnic and cultural belonging, social status, adhesion to specific power or religious groups. Through some examples, the archaeologist will discuss ancient glass jewels and their different meanings.
Participation in the event is free upon registration via email at info@levelofficelandscape.com. The event, in collaboration with the Order of Architects of the Province of Lecco, gives the right to receive 2 CFP, by registering on the CNA platform here.
Bianca Cappello
Jewelery historian, expert of the Milan Chamber of Commerce in jewellery, goldsmithery, silverware and costume jewelery from the 18th to the 20th century, Bianca Cappello is a teacher and curator of conferences and seminars on the history of jewellery, an activity which she completes with publications on this topic with major publishing houses. She works as curator of jewelery exhibitions for museums and public bodies, and a curatorial consultant for museum and private collections. She is also a member of the Society of Jewelery Historians in London.
Augusto Panini
Textile industrialist, Augusto Panini had various opportunities to stay, between 1980 and 1992, in different West African countries, undertaking research and study trips into the ancient cultures of Mali. Author of various essays on the subject, since 2000 he has specifically dealt with glass beads and the role they have played in commercial and cultural relations between Africa, the Middle East and Europe, studying their places of origin, communication routes and related historical chronological framework. In 2007 he published the “Venetian and Middle Eastern Glass Beads, 8th-20th century” for Skira and in 2008 the English edition “Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads”. Since 2010 he has collaborated with important public and private museums in Italy, France and Japan and since 2015 he has been a consultant for the Murano Glass Museum – Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia – within the same collection of glass beads.
Marina Uboldi
Graduated and specialize in Archeology at the Catholic University of Milan, where she also completed a PhD on glass finds from the Roman period in Milan, Marina Uboldi is currently an expert in the subject “Archeology, Settlements, Medieval Places of Worship” at the same university and President of the Italian National Committee of the Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre. For years she has been the curator of the Civic Archaeological Museum of Como and directed several archaeological excavations in the Como area.