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Every Artist or Artisan must work for himself, to express himself, to communicate, to transmit or receive emotions, with the wish that his creation is appreciated for what he had first imagined. With these compositions, we wanted to help you in drawing near objects and situations related among them, to create the right atmosphere, collecting them in a suitcase, like the fantasy contained in a painting.

 

IT CONTAINS :

 
  • One Italy Rare leather suitcase
  • One hand braided basket bag "S. Silei"
  • One "F. Balducci" decanter and two glasses made of stonaware
  • One hand made wool scarf
  • The Italy Rare diary
 

 

 
 
The history suitcase contains :
 
Italy Rare leather suitcase

 

This suitcase, unique object in its kind, is made on purpose by the Master Artisan Varetto Boldrini to contain the nice and precious things of Italy Rare in respect for the age-old tuscan tradition of the use of materials, of the leather's quality and the entirely manual techniques.
Each product is numbered and recorded in his personal book by the Master.

 
One hand braided basket bag "S. Silei"

 

The capacity to create baskets is an ancient art that has its roots in the prehistory, making austere objects, almost primitive and essential, being modernized with the creativity of the Artist Artisans but being linked firmly to the tradition.

The Master Sestilio Silei has placed his experience at disposal for the realization of a bag interwoven with young osier branches, exclusively for Italy Rare.

 
One "F. Balducci" decanter and two glasses made of stonaware

 

Much of the Balducci's work combines the coarse finish of the stoneware with oxidised iron: clay and iron - The two primal materials wich, worked with fire, have been fundamental to art and culture since the dawn of time. The red is a red copper in reduction: it means that it is obtained from the place impoverished of oxygen, in the oven during the fusion. If the enamel would be cooked in a oxidative place would become light green, cooked in reduction becomes dark red : I call it "wine red" but among ceramists it is known as "ox blood".

 
One hand made wool scarf

 

Lino Balotti wanted to go against the general trend , he didn't give in to the pull of big industry, of the easy money , of the productivity without soul. He have always worked on his own, in his artisan workshop with his family to search in the past and to enhance the product of his valley.
Using natural wool, cotton and flax fibres, he started to weave with old looms , some reconstructed watching ancient drawings of engravings with the help of archaologist friends reproducing ancient works of arte ...

 
The Italy Rare diary

 

A hand-bound book according to the old Florentine book tradition of the artisan, Mr. Andrea Agostini. The bindings are in natural leather and it is printed in gold, at high temperature.
Inside there are some poems chosen exclusively by Roberto Viani ...

 
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