OVERVIEW
8 February 2019
The story of the illustrious Turinese doll and ceramics manufacture The beginnings and success The brand “Ars Lenci” was registered n Turin on 23 April 1919, a symbolic date that gives a specific time frame to an activity that had been started some time earlier by Helen Konig, wife of the owner Enrico Scavini. Helen […]
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27 April 2018
5 POINTS TO DISCOVER THE LIFE OF THE GREAT CRITIC (AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION) Arturo Schwarz and his gallery in Milan were a reference point for Dadaists, Surrealists, and historical avant-gardes across the world. Considered to be the last surrealist, his name is linked to Marcel Duchamp’s 1 His youth […]
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4 May 2016
Ceremonial dishware, also known as “pomp”, made from precious materials as silver or even gold, derives from jugs and washbowls, objects often used in big Medieval and Renaissance feasts and banquets. Jugs and wash basins were usually used by the participants to clean their hands and fingers between meal courses, given the lack of personal […]
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12 December 2015
The year 2015 ends with a positive note for our auction house and confirms Cambi’s leadership on the national panorama for the auction sales, this time for design artworks. One of Cambi’s lasts sales of 2015 has given us big satisfactions: Fine Design auction on the 18th of December introduced a rich selection of artworks coming from private […]
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Mario Panzano, the Antiquary
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The last act of a man who dedicated his whole life to Genoese collecting Last 19 May the auction room of Castello Mackenzie was full, as it had not happened for many years for fine art sales. The atmosphere recalled the Genoese auctions of the early 1980s, when the crowd thronged before the opening of […]
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4 October 2015
History and Architecture In 1756, the Duke Gabrio Serbelloni bought Casa Trotti, along San Damiano Shipway, first core of the prestigious state palace that had to consecrate the Serbelloni’s at the heart of the political and social life in Milan. The Duke called the architect Simone Cantoni, Vanvitelli’s apprentice and student at the Academy […]
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3 October 2015
The Caves of Mackenzie Castle
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Among the numerous artistic and architectonic articulations of Mackenzie Castle – first work and masterpiece of the Florence architect Gino Coppedè – stands out, because of its incredibly scenic setting, the romantic area of the artificial caves, which overlook a paved courtyard under the level of the building and connected, through a small door, to […]
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2 September 2012
After a long pause, Giuseppe Tornatore is back in the cinemas with a new film, The Best Offer, around the world of art and auction houses. The film, whose shooting just ended, is set in Trieste, Vienna, Prague, Bolzano, Rome and Milan. It seems that this film was inspired by a series of auction catalogues that […]
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29 September 2011
The second life of the Widow
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Genoese people, who since 1805 celebrate weddings and other anniversaries with comfits and pastries produced by the historical firm A. Ved. Romanengo, know it simply as La Vedova. And that’s what it still is in the new, extraordinary venue, called in fact Cambicafé-La Vedova (La Vedova means the Widow), hosting the shop on the ground floor […]
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11 April 2011
I gioielli Buccellati
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Milan 1919: just after the end of the First World War 28 year-old Mario Buccellati took over the goldsmith’s where he had served his apprenticeship and founded the company that still bears his name today. During the 1920s he swiftly became the jeweller and silversmith of choice for Milan’s aristocracy, with his stunningly original designs […]
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