Vicenza, Italy........Design impresario Cleto Munari has launched his first Furnishings Collection in collaboration with nine international architects, poets and artists. Starting with Italian architect Carlo Scarpa in the seventies, Munari has produced collections of tableware in sterling silver, jewelry, Murano glass, watches, pens, and now limited edition tables. Munari has selected world renowned architects, as well as visual and literary artists, to work in complete freedom without the …
Alfonso Architects Receives Top Awards for Design Excellence
Tampa, FL........ Alfonso Architects has received two design awards from AIA Tampa Bay, a Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The 35 person firm, led by President Alberto Alfonso, AIA received the H. Dean Rowe, FAIA Award for the Tampa Covenant Church. This is the top honor awarded from the jury of non-competing, award-winning, out of state architects. Alfonso Architects also received a Merit Award for the Chihuly Collection, in the commercial category. The modernist Tampa …
Alberto Alfonso, AIA & Edward Mayes Exhibit Together at the Tuscan Sun Festival
Tampa, FL........The Tuscan Sun Festival, held from July 30 – August 7, 2011 in Cortona, Italy will include From Things About to Disappear, I Turn Away in Time, a painting and poetry exhibit. The installation, located at Sant'Agostino is a collaboration between architect/painter Alberto Alfonso, AIA and poet/scholar Edward Mayes. Alfonso and Mayes live both in Italy and America and their collaboration inspires conversations and observations about the concepts of time in each country. The …
New Ravenna Introduces The Giovanni Barbieri Collection of Marble Mosaic
(Exmore, Virginia)........New Ravenna is proud to introduce the marble mosaic collection of Giovanni Barbieri of the Barbieri Brothers Family. Trained in the Italian artisan traditions of historic mosaic and contemporary interior design, Barbieri has devised and patented a remarkable surface treatment that transforms marble into an undulating surface material emulating ancient stone. The "Marmo Antico Lucido" finish is highly polished with straight even edges. The "Timeworn" finish is honed, …
In Bloom: Introducing Jacqueline Jewel Glass Mosaic
(Exmore,Virginia)........Introducing Jacqueline, a hand crafted mosaic tile in jewel glass designed by Sara Baldwin for New Ravenna, in bloom. Blooming in three different colorways, White, Blue and Green, the individual semi precious colors are a rainbow of verdant gems for all vertical applications. Jacqueline in White is a delicate field of citrine, amazonite and moonstone jewel glass. In Blue, Jacqueline becomes a lush meadow of alexandrite, citrine, peridot and olivine blossoms. When …