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Milano: MINT - 3rd Milan International Antiques and Modern Art Fair

MINT – Milan International Antiques and Modern Art Fair - the venue. The Mint Art Fair of Antiques, Modern and Contemporary Art was in its third edition, last November. It has become an appointment for Italian and International sophisticated art lovers. The Fair took place in a temporary structure in Piazzale Cannone just behind the Sforzesco Castle, in a fascinating scenography which has as its backdrop the castle walls and the Arco della Pace in Parco Sempione. The Mint, is an elegant exhibition that matches antiques and modern art, period pieces of rare quality and contemporary design.

Seen at Mint: Robilant + Voena – London and Milano. A general view of the Robilant and Voena stand. The stand epitomizes the Mint Fair because the gallery deals in antique and modern works of art. In the foreground a painting by Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662-1740) a Flemish landscape painter of the Baroque, a landscape with two figures, oil on canvas. In the background on the wall is a giant C-print photograph by Candida Hofer, Musee du Louvre Paris XII, 2005. And, a set four gloss laminated polyurethane resin stools, Nekton, 2006 made by Established & Sons, from the Seamless Collection by Zaha Hadid.

Seen at Mint: Bottegantica di Savoia – Bologna. A signed and dated, Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), Portrait of the Marchesa Franzoni, 1892, oil on canvas.

Seen at Mint: Salamon & C. – Milano. Entrepeneur, Marina Salamon stopped by her cousin, Lorenza Salamon’s stand to have a look at this painting by Marzio Tamer.

Seen at Mint: Renzo Freschi Oriental Art - Milano. Shakyamuni, Tibet, seventeenth or early Eighteenth Century, copper, embossed, fire-gilded statue.

Renzo Freschi stands in front of a polychrome terracotta, Gandhara, Fourth century male head.

Seen at Mint: Salamon & C. – Milano. Artist and designer, Guido Venturini “simulates” his watercolor on paper behind him.

Seen at Mint: Ajassa Arte Antica Cinese – Torino. Terracotta with glazing, horses from the Tang Dynasty (618-907). In the background a portrait of a Chinese dignitary, mixed media on paper, early Eighteenth Century.



Seen at Mint: Studio La Citta – Verona. Hiroyuki Masuyama’s J.M.W. Turner, Cockmouth Castle, 1830, 2008, lightbox LED edition 2/5. Hiroyuki Masuyama’s light-boxes are not simply photographic reproductions of the paintings and watercolors of William Turner, they are instead a conceptual operation on the work of this great English artist.




Seen at Mint: Galleria Silvano Lodi & Due – Milano. Antique dealer, Maurizio Bellini stops in front of a crocodile painting by Saverio Polloni at the Galleria Silvano Lodi & Due stand.





Cod. 04564, 2007, oil on canvas, painted by Saverio Polloni. Polloni’s animals pose life-sized in half or full-length portraits or more speculatively, a detail of their figure is extrapolated to suggest an abstract perceptive interpretation.

Seen at Mint: Enrico Lumina – Bergamo. A View of the Grand Canal in Venice painted by Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) painted in 1785.

Seen at Mint: Alessandro Bulgini. Photographer, Alessandro Bulgini sits in front of his photograph of The Palace of Juriconsults, Milano, 2008. Bulgini is one of nine contemporary photographers whose works were auctioned during Mint. The photographers were asked to create a work inspired by three sole views of Milan painted by Bernardo Bellotto (1720-1780), the Italian urban landscape painter. Thereby creating comparisons between antiquity and modernity.

Seen at Mint: Il Quadrifoglio – Milano. A detail of a celestial globe by Vincenzo Corovelli (1650-1712), Venice.

A bronze statue, early 20th Century sits in front of one of a pair of XVII Century mirrors with inlaid gilded wood frames.

Seen at Mint: Photo & Contemporary – Torino. Valerio Tazzetti sits in front of a George Rousse diasec print called Durham, 2006.

Seen at Mint: Giuseppe Piva – Arte Giapponese – Milan. Giuseppe Piva poses with an exceptional Tozuki-nari Kawari Kabuto, of the mid Edo period (1615-1867), in the shape of a soft headgear fixed on the back with a knot.






Armor from the Date clan, NI-MAI-DO Gusoku of the Edo Period 1615-1867, signed Joshu Ju Saotome Lechika. This early armor shows all the features typical of equipment used in battle: hanbo to fix a heavy kabuto, small sode and a dô with no metal kanamono.

Seen at Mint: Carlo Orsi - Milano. Antique dealer, Carlo Orsi poses in front of a bronze bust of Innocenzo XI Odescalchi (1676 - 1689) by Girolamo Lucenti (1625 – 1698ca.).

Seen at Mint: Guido Bartolozzi Antichita’ – Firenze. In the Foreground one of a couple of terracotta French mid eighteenth Century sculptures representing a sphinx with woman head and a putti dancing. In the background, an English Mortlake tapestry, 1735 in silk and wool.

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Milano: Entertaining - Rosita's Birthday Party

Milan: Entertaining - Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita Missoni celebrated her seventy-seventh birthday with an intimate birthday party in the Missoni Milan apartment. The birthday cake was made with two big number seven shaped cakes made with berries and fresh fruit, complete with seventy-seven candles, the border was held together by lots of tiny cannoncini, placed up-side down and filled with custard.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. The legendary French editor in chief, Claude Brouet and Tai Missoni.
Note: her necklace is made out of lots of bangles.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Laura Casalis and Franco Maria Ricci. Franco is building a gigantic labyrinth on his estate in Parma complete with a museum and a convention hall, ready in 2010.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – decoration. Besides the orchids that were hanging from the light fixtures, Rosita scattered lots of polka dotted purple and white candles.




Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Beppe Modenese, Daniela Morera and Fabio Bellotti.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – the flowers. Hung all over the apartment were orchids, Rosita’s favorite flowers. Rosita often hangs orchids on light fixtures, picture etc.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – the newlyweds. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nobili.


Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Two colorful ladies, publisher, Inge Feltrinelli and Italian Vogue editor, Anna Piaggi.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – a detail. Anna found this Playboy bunny necklace on a stall on the banks of Lake Garda.


Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party - Father and daughter. Marco Maccapani and Margherita Missoni Maccapani.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Amateur florist, Carla Alvera and artist, Laura Panno.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Original artwork for Missoni advertising campaign by Antonio Lopez are hung on the walls of the Milan apartment.

Note: the Rose the model is holding, a tribute to Rosita.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Bruno Ragazzi and Angela Missoni enjoy a tete a tete.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Maurizia Missoni and Italian showgirl, Mara Vernier.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – deserts. Very thin apple pies and castagnaccio, an Italian cake made from chestnut flour sit besides these very pretty and colorful flower plates designed by Rosita for Missoni Home.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – deserts. The gigantic sbrisolona cake is like a crumble and is typical from Mantua.



Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Luca Missoni chats to Venetian artist, Federica Manargoni.





Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Photographer, Maria Mulas, looks very comfortable in the Missoni Home 60s inspired polka dotted flower chair.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Even the salami looked good, and tasted even better, just like a flower laid out in circles on a wooden cutting board.




Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Cousins; Teresa Maccapani Missoni and Ottavio Missoni.





Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Orchids are Rosita’s favorite flowers; a big seventy-seven composition adorns the center wall of the sitting room.
Note: the Frank Gehry cardboard chairs and the striped sideboards.




Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. We all gathered around the piano to sing the song after which Rosita was named, Chuidi Gli Occhi Rosita (Close Your Eyes Little Rose).

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – the song. Rosita gets her name from her grandmother Rosa, and also from this song, Chuidi Gli Occhi Rosita (Close Your Eyes Little Rose), which was in vogue when she was born.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rossana Orlandi.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party - crudite. It is always so nice to have fresh vegetables to munch on. Radiccio from Treviso, carrots and fennel looked great in these white glasses next to them is a big wooden bowl filled with more of these crudités.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita’s brother, Gianpiero and his son, Angelo Jelmini.



Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita’s right hand design assistant, Eva Gundersen.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Among the presents, Rosita an AC Milan supporter, received this T-shirt from her grandchildren, inscribed with Nonna, the Italian for grandmother and her 77 years.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita’s brother, Giancarlo Jelmini and her son, Vittorio Missoni.





Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Before – the coffee table looked great with all the gold leaf ashtrays and objects on it.
Note: the two polka dot 1960s inspired chairs in the background.






After - the coffee table after the deserts. Note the Missoni Home plates designed by Rosita, big bold flowers in black and white or colored with gold leaf and the striped carpet.





Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita and her grandchildren; Teresa, Giacomo, Ottavio, Francesco, Marco and Margherita.

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