L'Atelier di Annarita Vitali si trova a Bologna all'interno di una abitazione, in via Stanislao Mattei 1 (Cap 40134 Quartiere Porto Saragozza)
Address
Via Stanislao Mattei 1
10 - 18
Dal Lunedi al Sabato
10 -18
Annarita Vitali works period materials according to forms and styles of the past to evoke, through jewels, the fashions and trends that have characterized the history of the twentieth century. It is a world of sensations, love, fantasy and colors that she carries inside since childhood and expresses herself in the bijoux of her creation. Annarita Vitali's creations, handmade with vintage materials, seem to follow the history of jewelry in the twentieth century.
The coffa is part of the Sicilian tradition.
The ecological choice of making jewels and accessories with the sole use of recycled material while safeguarding the environment, with collections that trace the history of bijoux, places it at the top of the ranking of brands with low environmental impact. All its artifacts are made with original period materials, recovered from the ancient "Furlanetto" warehouse, which Annarita Vitali bought in 1998, saving, from certain destruction, the enormous amount of material crammed into the company's warehouses, thus becoming, custodian of a veritable mine of vintage material, which today revives in creations of rare and delicate beauty.
Annarita Vitali
Stilista
This is the story of my recovery activity of an old warehouse from which I obtained period materials for my collectible bijoux! "In Bologna there are people who have conservation and recovery in their DNA; Annarita Vitali, Graduated in Urban Planning with the Arch.tto Cervellati, who has always been active in the recovery of historic centers, she pursued, working on her own, after a collaboration with the Artistic Events Authority and the Gallery of Modern Art, of recovery, aimed at jewel and its creation. It all started with the purchase of the old warehouse "Furlanetto". Founded in 1925, taken over with all the ancient materials, and revived with the artistic creations of Annarita Vitali in 1998. The company, founded by Romeo Furlanetto in 1925, produced fashion accessories, sold internationally, and collaborated with important stylists, including Valentino, Chanel and Balenciaga of which he was the distributor for Italy ... just to name a few. recoce by Romeo Furlanetto, his wife Maria, a Calestani from Casalmaggiore, took over. This is where the most ancient and important production of jewels, called 'gold mad', was based, as they were not entirely precious, starting from the second half of the 19th century. precisely gold-plated, which had enormous success all over the world. The industries that produced accessories, but not only, became a consortium, continuing the business until the 1970s. All would have been lost if the bijoux museum had not been created in 1998, which tells the story of the evolution of bijoux with over thirty thousand pieces, which follows the evolution of the historical period and its trends very quickly. Just in 1998, when the Furlanetto company in Bologna was closed, Annarita Vitali, after two years of cataloging materials, began producing unique pieces with period materials, precisely those purchased by the aforementioned company. One-of-a-kind thematic artifacts are created in a villa from the early 1900s, all rigorously made with period materials. These are thematic jewels, as recurring themes emerge from the materials and their historicization, moreover not only in the world of jewelry but present in many artistic typologies, architecture, iconography, poetry, literature, etc. The anthropological and social analysis that reveals the reasons for the trends is interesting ... for example shells, the first ornament of man, which cyclically, but one could say seasonally, emerge, heraldry, naturalistic themes, etc. "Annarita Vitali