After the success of the first edition of “Sono tazza di te!” – which traveled Italy between 2021 and 2022, from Milan passing through Lugano, Vietri sul Mare and Faenza, up to Albissola Marina – this second edition “ coi baffi ” will have two stages : the first at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan from 16 to 31 October 2024 and the second in Lodi at the former Church of the Angel from 14 December 2024 – 26 January 2025.
On display are cups designed by 26 women – the theme is free without constraints on size, material, function -, and 12 special guests from almost all of Italy, who have proposed fascinating and also unexpected “moustache-saving cups”, reinterpreting Victorian aesthetics in a contemporary way. And they were asked to donate their product to support the Archè Foundation that since 1991, in Milan, Rome, San Benedetto del Tronto welcomes and hosts mothers and children in difficulty in the three communities, helping them to redesign a better future.
The idea was born from the 19th century “Mustache Cups”: in 1860, the Englishman Harvey Adams invented a cup with a particular feature, a crescent-shaped stirrup to protect the “honour of the lips” of those gentlemen who flaunted, and cared for, their extraordinary moustaches which at tea time ran the risk of drooping, as the wax that modelled them melted in the hot steam.
On display is the curious private collection of Carlo Filosa , a refined Paduan lover of this new type of “use object”, made up of more than 100 pieces collected over 30 years.
The special guests are Giancarlo Cazzaniga , Michele Cuomo, Guido De Zan, Giorgio Gurioli, Alessandro Iudici , Pasquale Liguori, Andrea Marconi, Marco Pisati, Carlo Pizzichini, Alberto Maria Prina , Andrea Salvatori and Maurizio Tittarelli Rubboli.
Among the female designers, some have already been present at the first edition, many are new entries: the different approaches and languages used to create the cups are particular and above all for the types of materials used (recycled and waste, plastic rings, silver-plated copper wires, cable ties, waxed cotton thread, wool, marble, steel, iron, glass, earth).
And then Silvia Bianchi, Claudia Botta, Flora Caroli, Donatella Carollo, Laura Cavestro, Erika Chinaglia, Laura Cristinzio, Sarah Dalla Costa, Varvara Erikhova, Luisa Ferrara, Gloria Gianatti, Mariacristina Giobbi, Anna Giuli Del Monte, Ilaria Grimaldi, Rosanna La Spesa, Cinzia Li Volsi, Maria Maddalena Manna, Francesca Mo, Marzia Mucchietto, Floriana Pastore, Karin Putsch-Grassi, Valeria Eva Rossi, Livia Sciorilli Borrelli, Claudia Tagliaferro, Eliana Valenti, Teresa Vella.
A cameo on display , which anticipates the second stage in Lodi from 14 December 2024 to 26 January 2025, is the presence of some pieces of artistic ceramics from Lodi signed by the “CAL” (Ceramica Artistica Lodigiana) factory . Founded in 1981 by Angelo Pisati and Giovanni Minetti, it still produces a production with Italian and French decorations that stand out for their very lively polychromy, eclectic design, and successful combination of colours.
On Saturday 26 October , from 11am to 1pm, the Fabbrica del Vapore will host the event “Kintsugi between East and West”. Chiara Lorenzetti will present her manual Kintsugi, the art of repairing with gold and will conduct a practical demonstration of the phases of Kintsugi processing, with the possibility of experimenting with the technique personally.
Participation is free with mandatory registration at the link https://www.eventbrite.com/o/dcomedesign-65747018923 . The workshop is available for a maximum of fifteen people, but open to spectators.
Technical sponsor ELEMENTI , a company that produces tables and furnishing accessories and is characterized by the use of aluminum which allows the creation of customized pieces.
Carlo Pizzichini, Tea Time
