Osservatorio dei Mestieri d'Arte

The Florence Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte organizes, develops and promotes a series of cultural initiatives to encourage and awaken public interest in artistic crafts.
OmA wants to create a European network of institutions to encourage and promote the understanding of the various cultural identities and to analyse thoroughly the themes of the quality of productions.
OmA intends to monitor the history, tradition, techniques, projects and innovations through publications, conferences, congresses, workshops and practical lessons of artistic crafts to promote them. La rivista (the magazine) is the tool to analyze the themes of Florence’s artistic crafts and its traditions, but also to show the best achievements in Italy and abroad. The magazine is bimonthly and it is distributed together with I FATTI, the newspaper of the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze.

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	Discovering Craftsmanship :: Marakita With threads of a thousand colors and patterns that rival the imagination, welcome to the wondrous labyrinth of fabrics, designs, prototypes and ladybugs you will love to get lost in. The young designer Benedetta Maracchi, surrounded by her latest collection, welcomes us and introduces us to Marakita.
	“FROM STRAW TO HAT” Straw Interweaving between Italy, Switzerland and England Promoted by the Osservatorio dei Mestieri d'Arte, the travelling exhibition centred on the timeless straw accessory arrives in Italy, and precisely in Florence, at the Marino Marini Museum from June 29th to July 31st, 2010 >>