Vita di Vetro Foulard

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Ended:September 20th 2021, 12:00pm EDT

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€300($320 USD)

Charity percentage

77%

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The Prize

The collection of foulards designed by Andrea Moretti, originated in 2017 from a desire to realize one of our father’s dreams and celebrate his infinite love of glass.

This passion is a family tradition.

His great-grandfather Vincenzo Moretti (1835-1901) with his production of Murrino glass, inspired the realization of countless artworks, preserved in numerous collections around the world.

To represent all possible combinations of designs and colors, he created a sample of 102 tiles now divided into three family collections, that could be used to make bowls, pots and other precious objects.

It's the pieces of our father’s collection that inspired the idea to carry the colors and transparency of glass on silk.

The fragility and all those precious imperfections of this material that is so familiar to us, have also inspired our new collection in cachemire modal.

The 2017 limited edition shows the drawings of the first 8 scarves of the silk collection with the names of the Moretti sisters and their five children.

This colorful, versatile and warm foulard can be used both in winter and on cool summer evenings over a light dress.

We used without cuts but only with seams to realize a dress that has been shown in one of the evenings for the reopening of the Excelsior Hotel in Venice Lido in July 2021.

We, as his daughters, with the same joy he transmitted to us, are very honored to partecipate in the designer’s Alberta Ferretti auction with our foulard that contains tradition, art, history and love.

Giovanna, Carlotta, Orsola Moretti

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The Cause

The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (MUVE) is responsible for eleven museums: the Doge’s Palace; the Museo Correr; the Torre dell’Orologio; Ca’ Rezzonico – Museum of the eighteenth-century Venice; Palazzo Mocenigo – Centre for the History of Textiles, Costume and Perfume; the Casa di Carlo Goldoni; Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art; Palazzo Fortuny; the Museo del Vetro di Murano (Murano glass museum); the Museo del Merletto di Burano (Burano lace museum); the Natural History Museum Giancarlo Ligabue of Venice. It boasts an immense cultural heritage, with over 700,000 works of art, five specialist libraries, a photographic archive and a well-equipped warehouse in the Vega Stock in Marghera.

This rich and complex museum system has been managed, protected and promoted by MUVE since its foundation in 2008. It has been recently enriched by two other important partnerships developing outside the historic centre of the city: with the Centro Culturale Candiani and Forte Marghera in Mestre. The Fondazione Musei Civici is a private entity reporting to a Board of Directors that manages a public heritage and which self-finances all its activities. It has only one founding member, the City of Venice.

In addition to traditional museum activities (recovery, conservation, study, promotion), it includes a wide range of cultural activities and services: research, training, dissemination, teaching, production of temporary events, in a ceaseless dialogue with the territory and its visitors. The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia encourages the integration of public and private participating members that share and support its aims. It establishes and consolidates relationships with other national and international museums, and other cultural, scientific and educational institutions, and develops partnerships for specific projects with private subjects. Shared objectives are the implementation of international visibility and reputation and the development of virtuous and innovative local relationships, to be pursued with a high profile offer associated with maximum accessibility.

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Item #P61819

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