Loading...Textiles are the slogan of Prato. But the city hosts many artistic gems that you really must visitToday we are once again going to talk about our city, which on one hand is off the beaten path, away from the masses of tourists, overshadowed by Floren…
The Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi PecciThe Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci was a project started in the early 1980s by Enrico Pecci, Knight of the Italian Order of Merit for Labour.At the time, architect Italo Gamberini was a…
Tra Arte e Moda (“Across Art and Fashion”) is the title of the new exhibition being held at the Museo del Tessuto until February 19th 2017, in collaboration with the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo. Edoardo and I were the specialist correspondents for th…
Filippo Lippi is the kind of extravagant, talented artist that I love. And every time I think about him, I can’t help but smile – a curious, amused smile. I would have loved to have a chat with him. For those who do not know anything about him, her…
Since I have started writing for the DHG blog, I have discovered so many things about Prato and the world of weaving. Prato is my city and I thought I knew it very well, instead I realized there are a thousand stories, places and personalities that…
This week we are going to tell you about Prato and textile craftsmanship from a glamourous point of viewThe great and charismatic John Malkovich. An American actor and director with European roots – in fact, Croatian, German, French, English and …
Prato is located in Tuscany. Populated since Etruscan time, this territory becomes a real city in the X century when two contiguous but distinct villages united. During the Middle Ages Prato has mainly organized and developed thanks to textile produc…
The Textile Museum has always been one of my favorite places in town. It happens regularly that I got lost in it’s rooms, oozing with the history of our city, Prato, where textiles have been produced for 800 years.Our venue in the heart of the citySi…
