Events

January 13, 2025

Bottega Milano at the Società del Giardino

The fourth volume of the Bottega Milano series dedicated to Olympic values was presented in the halls of the Garden Society

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December 21, 2025

Christmas Concert

The Rosetum Cultural Center welcomes the young treble voices of the Milan Auditorium Symphony Orchestra.

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December 11, 2025

The Neapolitan Tombolata 2025

The pre-Christmas appointment with La Tombolata Napoletana and Cilento 1780 is renewed

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November 12 and 13, 2025

Arts and crafts in Lombardy

At Forum Retail 2025, retail fair at SuperStudio+ 10 60-minute workshops with Dufour à la Rose, Vetrate Artistiche Grassi, Art Bindery Giovanni Codina, Martin Luciano, Antica Barbieria Colla, Ceratina, Viganò Alta Moda

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October 8, 14, 22, 29, 2025

See you in the Bottega! 2025

A palimpsest of cultural initiatives and performances spread across the network of Galleria&Friends’ Ancient Shops starring Carlo Porta, Milan’s greatest dialect poet, whose 250th birth anniversary (1775-2025) falls this year.

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September 27 - October 26 - November 18, 19, 20 - December 13, 2025

Make Borgo San Gottardo bloom

The “Un Borgo in Città” project created to redevelop and enliven the San Gottardo-Meda neighborhood in the heart of City Hall 5 has proposed a series of free cultural events-open courtyards, art walks, artisan workshops, traveling living nativity scene.

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June 13, 2025

A doctor in the kitchen PETRONILLA

“Petronilla, A Doctor in the Kitchen – Yesterday’s Recipes for Tomorrow’s Menus,” an initiative organized by Elisabetta Invernici and Alberto Oliva to pay tribute to and enhance the figure of Amalia Moretti Foggia, better known by her pseudonym Petronilla, a pioneer of Italian medicine and culinary popularization.

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April 15, 2025

Knowing how to do Italian

On the occasion of the second Made in Italy Day, Tuesday 15 April 2025, Galleria & Friends in collaboration with the Club of Friends of Made in Italy and with the first class of the Made in Italy High School in Milan – Istituto Labor, promotes a special event that celebrates the roots, present and future of excellent Italian craftsmanship.

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April 1-11, 2025

Cities seen from the sky

Opening on April 1 at 6 p.m. of Luigi Angiuli’s exhibition Cities Seen from the Sky at the 5 Giornate Tourism Agency (at 15 Cinque Giornate Square), with the artist in attendance.

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March 7, 2025

The 160th anniversary of the Gallery

160 years after the laying of the foundation stone of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II on March 7, 1865, Galleria&Friends celebrates the birth of its network of ancient workshops in 2020 and the project dedicated to safeguarding the artistic and cultural heritage of the Galleria, a symbolic place of the city, with the three books “Bottega Milano – The Masters of the New Renaissance.”

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February 19 - March 4, 2025

The Worlds of Gigi Pedroli

From Feb. 19 to March 4, 2025 Galleria&Friends is organizing at Milan’s City Hall 6 a celebratory exhibition dedicated to Gigi Pedroli, an eclectic artist of the Milanese and international scene who recently passed away. The event is held in the striking spaces of the Ex Fornace, a symbolic place of culture and art in the Navigli neighborhood.

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December 19, 2024

The Neapolitan Tombolata

Neapolitan bingo at the Cilento 1780 shop (via Fiori Oscuri, 13) which hosted us for a truly unmissable afternoon. The Neapolitan actor Gustavo La Volpe called the Smorfia numbers.

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November 24, 2024

Giacomo Puccini voice of Made in Italy in the world

Exclusive afternoon at the Grand Hotel et de Milan with the protagonists of Made in Italy. The network of Antiche Botteghe di Milano e della Lombardia, created by Elisabetta Invernici and Alberto Oliva, dedicates this event to Giacomo Puccini, emphasizing his role as an Ambassador of Italianness in the world, when the Maestro personally promoted his music through travels and transfers.

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November 21, 2024

Homage to Maria Callas

Impossible interview by Elisabetta Invernici with the unforgettable opera artist played by the actress and singer Gea Rambelli accompanied on the piano by M0 Elena Armiraglio. Directed by Alberto Oliva

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November 14, 2024

On the set with Lyda Borelli

Twenty-second event of the Rosa Genoni MilanoLab project, “On the Set of Lyda Borelli.” At Vetrerie Artistiche Grassi – Via Mecenate 10 you will relive the atmosphere of a Belle Époque photographic set, Nadar style. It stars actress Carola Colombo as Lyda Borelli.

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November 7 and 14, 2024

Liberty Passion

On the occasion of the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death, writer Giovanni Chiara recounts his genius through the pages of his book, in the spaces of the former Maglieria Tina workshop since 1962, which is hosting a dedicated fashion installation.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the death of the fashion designer, a performance by actress Carola Colombo dedicated to Rosa Genoni’s testimonial Lyda Borelli, star of silent films, in the spaces of Vetrate Artistiche Grassi, in dialogue with the collection of Art Nouveau masterpieces.

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November 5, 15 and 22, 2024

The Ancient Shops for Giacomo Matteotti

Vetrate Artistiche Grassi, Cilento 1780, De Wan, Centro dell’Incisione Gigi Pedroli, Legatoria d’arte Giovanni Codina, Ferramenta Spinardi, Bagatti Bronzisti, Argenteria Miracoli, Tipografia Landoni -have each created an artistic tribute to Giacomo Matteotti ultilizing the art peculiar to them. At the end of the initiative, the 9 artifacts were donated to Milan’s 9 city halls.

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October 30, 2024

Forum Retail 2024

The Forum Retail 2024, now in its 24th edition, confirmed itself as the largest technology networking hub for the retail world. Organized by IKN Italy, the event was held Oct. 30 at the Allianz MiCo in Milan bringing together more than 2,000 industry players, offering a unique platform to discuss future market trends.

Galleria&Friends has been present with its Ancient Shops within the District of Genius and Taste.

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Tuesday, Oct. 8 to Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024

See you in the Bottega! 2024

“See you in the Bottega!” edition 2024 focuses on the figure of Giacomo Puccini, another great Italian who intertwined his success with the city of Milan in a double thread and whose centenary this year marks the centenary of his death on Oct. 29, 1924.

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October 3, 2024

Rosa Genoni court stylist

Appointment dedicated to the relationship between Rosa Genoni and the House of Savoy at Ornella Bijoux on 4 Monte Cervino Street. As part of Rosa Genoni MilanoLab.

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October 1 to 5, 2024

Discover Museum Workshops 2024

In the fourth edition of the tour in the Bottega Museo the Bocca Bookstore, Ornella Bijoux, Turci Footwear, Gigi Pedroli Engraving Center, Martin Luciano the 2024 protagonists.

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September 28, 2024

Open Courtyards in St. Gotthard

Milan is the city in Europe with the most comfortable streets and the most beautiful courtyards inside houses. Square courtyards, girded, as at the ancient Greeks,
by a portico, formed by very beautiful granite columns.
(Stendhal)
One of the most fascinating neighborhoods to immerse oneself in the magic of the Milan of yesteryear, hidden from the view of those who live the city with the frenzy of our times, is definitely Corso San Gottardo.

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May 24, 2024

Artfully Made

In Cantù On the occasion of Merletti e Ricami dall’Ottocento ad Oggi from May 12 to 26 Exhibition of Barbara Trestini Trimarchi’s embroideries inspired by Rosa Genoni’s sketches.

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May 18, 2024

Chopin in the fashion salon

As part of the official schedule of Pianocity 2024, Galleria&Friends, in collaboration with the prestigious historical workshop Cilento 1780, presented “Nocturnes and Ballads of Chopin,” an exclusive concert played on piano by Elena Armmiraglio, an experienced pianist.

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May 15, 2024

Silver Vineyard Award 2024

At the Sala Alessi in Palazzo Marino, headquarters of the Milan City Council, the Silver Vineyard Award – Milan 2024 Edition ceremony was held. Award given to personalities from culture, entertainment, institutions and civil society who have contributed to the growth of the country.

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May 7, 14 and 21, 2024

Sul filo di Rosa

“Rosa Genoni MilanoLab,” a project of the Cultural Association Profumo di Milano, organized on the occasion of Orticola 2024, the widespread exhibition “On the Thread of Rose” in some of the Galleria&Friends stores of Barbara Trestini Trimarchi’s embroideries inspired by Rosa Genoni’s sketches, on the theme of the rose.
On May 7 Vernissage at Bocca Bookshop. Meeting and dialogue with the artist on the theme of embroidery.
On May 14 Art Tour, taking us on a discovery of six needlework masterpieces paired with treasures from the beauty collection “Antonia’s Roses” in the art windows of Libreria Bocca, Noli, Barbieria Colla, Radaelli and Cilento 1780. Grand finale with olfactory experience at L’Erbolario dedicated to the theme of the rose.
On May 21 Finissage with a multisensory experience dedicated to the rose curated by Antonia Dufour and Giacomo Torrente in the old Ginrosa store in San Babila.

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April 17 to 21, 2024

MAXIA 5

At the prestigious headquarters of the 5 Giornate Tourism Agency, at 15 Cinque Giornate Square (L’Astrolabio Group), in the spaces of the former Casello del Dazio, GIVI, a leading Italian motorcycle accessories company, presented MAXIA 5 its design masterpiece.

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April 15, 2024

Rosa Genoni is the Made in Italy

“Rosa Genoni MilanoLab,” a project of the Profumo di Milano Cultural Association, organized the meeting at Libreria Bocca in Galleria, on the occasion of the national day of Made in Italy, where Rosa Genoni returns to star in an institutional meeting.

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March 1 to 5, 2024

Around the world in 5 days

In the charming old duty of Porta Vittoria, home of “5 Days Travel Agency,” from March 1 to 5 an exhibition of historical crafts from all continents to relive together the atmosphere of Jules Verne’s famous novel.

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December 14, 2023

The Neapolitan Tombola

Cilento 1780, Milan’s Galleria & Friends excellence, organized an afternoon of gaming with prizes offered by Antiche Botteghe.
Featuring Elisabetta Invernici, Alberto Oliva, Ugo Cilento and actor Gustavo La Volpe.

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November 30, 2023

In art Maria Callas

Appointment in the timelessly stylish halls of the Grand Hotel et de Milan. Here Maria Callas stayed on the occasion of her many performances at La Scala and frequent subsequent stays in Milan. And here we relived, as if by magic, an impossible interview during which the Divine tells about herself as never before.

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November 29, 2023

Manzoni and his women

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni’s death, an anniversary that the city celebrated with great enthusiasm, Galleria&Friends presented in the elegant spaces of the former workshop of “Ganci Argenterie” the play “Manzoni and His Women.”

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November 27, 2023

Guests to the Società del Giardino

The prestigious Garden Society organizes “ART IN THE BOTTEGA. Places and faces of the highest craft tradition.”

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October 26, 2023

Monteiro for Amazonia

Jenny Monteiro, a designer born in the Amazon and naturalized Italian, takes the field alongside her country to give concrete help to the population affected by the cyclone that devastated southern Brazil. In her atelier, set in an ancient courtyard between Corso San Gottardo and the Naviglio pavese, she calls together the citizens of Milan and the Brazilian community for an event between fashion and solidarity.

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Wednesday, October 11 to Wednesday, October 25, 2023

See you in the Bottega! 2023

The project to bring theater to the Bottega, implemented with the support of City Hall 1, aims to inhabit the stores and workshops of the historic center with performance actions with a view to fusing knowledge and crafts. This year the focus is on Alessandro Manzoni, whose 150th anniversary of his death falls.

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September 21, 2023

The secrets of Neapolitan elegance

Theatricalized encounter that restores the colors and scents of 19th century Neapolitan style through the dialogue between Oscar Wilde-the most famous dandy in the history of literature-and Matilde Serao.

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September - October 2023

Tours in the Botteghe Museo

We enhance the concept of the Bottega Museo, that is, those places of tradition that have established themselves over time as excellences of craftsmanship and commerce, that hand down ancient knowledge from generation to generation and that always know how to renew themselves in order to be in step with the times and on the cutting edge. Bocca Bookstore, JMonteiro Milano, Farmacia San Gottardo, Argenteria Miracoli, Giovanni Codina Art Bookbinding, Martin Luciano the stars of the 2023 tours

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May 22, 2023

Presentation of Milano Bottega and surroundings

Back in bookstores with the third volume BOTTEGA MILANO AND DINTORNI, new addresses of historic excellence joining Galleria&Friends.

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May 19, 2023

Vigna d’Argento prize – Milan edition 2023

The award since 2011 has been given to personalities from culture, entertainment, institutions and civil society who have contributed to the growth of the country.

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December 15, 2022

Christmas aperitif

Elisabetta Invernici e Alberto Oliva entertained their guests in the rooms of GINROSA for the Christmas Aperitif of the Historic Shops of Galleria&Friends

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17 November – 15 December 2022

Cities seen from the sky. Luigi Angiuli

A widespread exhibition in the center of Milan.
The Widespread Exhibition is a traveling route that combines art and communication involving the windows of the Historic Shops of Galleria&Friends, each of which displays a work, available for visit and sale. The initiative, in collaboration with 18 Historic Shops of Galleria&Friends, showcases the works of the artist Luigi Angiuli.

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November 3, 2022

In the sign of Brunetta

“In the sign of brunetta” is the beautiful exhibition curated by Elisabetta Invernici which takes place in the spaces of Galleria Bolzani, in via Morone 2 in Milan. It is dedicated to Brunetta Moretti Mateldi, intellectual, fashion journalist, painter, sculptor and advertising graphic designer famous throughout the world.

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5 October – 6 November 2022

Ci vediamo in Bottega!

An agenda of “impossible” meetings was held with great female characters of the Milanese twentieth century, played by actresses, dancers and performers inside the historic shops of Municipio 1.
The actresses who gave life to the famous Milanese women gave prestige and cultural prestige to the event, with texts written especially for the occasion and recited in original site-specific theatrical performances directed by director Alberto Oliva.

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Guided tours in the Museum Workshops

Bottega Museo 2022

Second edition of the event that takes us to visit the Museum Shops, which are among the most precious places in Lombardy. Selected from the best historical and traditional addresses, they boast handcrafted collections, Made in Italy production and the architectural beauty of the location.
For the 2022 edition, tours are planned in the city of Milan and Busto Arsizio

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Tuesday 27 September 2022

30th Anniversary Inner Whell Club

On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Club, Galleria&Friends stages the theatrical show “The great women of cosmetics”

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19 May 2022

Vigna d’Argento

On May 19 in Milan, the 2022 edition of the Vigna d”Argento Award, an award that comes from Puglia to give merit to women and men of excellence.
The ceremony at the Testori Auditorium of the Palazzo della Regione Lombardia was conducted by Elisabetta Invernici and Alberto Oliva.

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May 5, 2022

The great women of Cosmetic 5 × 5 – 5 women for the Town Hall 5

May 5, 2022 The great women of cosmetics 5x5 - 5 women for the Town Hall 5 the icons of beauty, Elizabeth Arden, Coco Chanel, Helena Rubbrestein, Estée Lauder, Elsa Schiaparelli invite us to an exclusive cocktail to tell thebirth of international cosmetics. Five female...

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Thursday 14 April 2022

Attilio Fontana and Bottega Milano Lombardia

On the occasion of the visit to Ancorotti Cosmetics, Attilio Fontana, has been able to appreciate our volume dedicatoalle workshops in Milan and Lombardy

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Friday, march 4, 2022

Rooms of art

Discover the Workshops of the Museum, on the occasion of MuseoCity 2022 entering in the Rooms of the art of Ornella Bijoux

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Sunday, February 27, 2022

Martin Luciano protagonist at White

Our historic shop the protagonist in a workshop at WHITE concept, the trade show that connects companies, buyers and showroom during Milan Women Fashion Week.

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Thursday, December 23, 2021

Did Leonardo go by bicycle?

Tour the historic evocative in Milan on two wheels

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Thursday, December 16, 2021

Natale Rosa Shocking

An evening with Elsa Schiaparelli on the stage of the Mamu – Warehouse Music

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Christmas dinner 2021

The Historic Shops of the Galleria&Friends find themselves at the Christmas Dinner.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Firmacopy by De Wan

Guests of Roberto De Wan at his store in via Manzoni in Milan.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Presentation “BOTTEGA MILANO Lombardia”

We returned to the Bookshop, the presentation of the book “BOTTEGA MILAN” Gallery&Friends Milan, Elisabetta Invernici and Alberto Oliva and the photographer Roby Buffets. Event live on Facebook on the profile of the Library.

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Thursday, September 30, 2021

Galleria&Friends at Rete4

On the occasion of an episode of the forehand and Backhand curated by the journalist Paul Of Agriculture certain holders of our Shops have been invited to dialogue on the themes of recovery and innovation in business.

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Sunday, 26 September 2021

Haute art Couture by Rott

Lois Rottonara, art ROTT, pays homage to the Historic Shops of the Galleria&Friends with the exposure of a framework for large-scale and entitled “Haute Couture”. We spoke with Susy Rottonara to the Library of the Mouth, in the Gallery in Milan

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Wednesday, may 8 and Friday, September 24, 2021

L’Essenza di Alice

‘The essence of Alice’ is an olfactory journey between fashion and design. The protagonist is a mobile multi-sensory, multi-award-winning and exhibited for the first time in Milan during the Supersalone thanks to the collaboration of entrepreneurial between Blacksmith Furnishings and Perfumery Mazzolari.

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Monday, September 6, 2021

Artigiani di Luce

Born from the passion color of the three artists, the event ‘the Artisans of Light’ in the scene in Milan stained Glass windows Fat during the Supersalone and the Milan Design Week-to September 2021.

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Thursday, July 15, 2021

Shocking Elsa

Within the Summer Sforza 2021, 15 July at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan was the scene for an evening of shocking pink with Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion icon, the independent, free and far from cliché.

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Wednesday 19 and from 27 to 30 May 2021

Bottega Museo 2021

The Workshops of the Museum, selected among the best addresses the historical and tradition – general in Milan for over fifty years – have collections, handcrafted, Made in Italy production and architectural beauty of the location. Over the years they have been able to preserve the historical collections of high artistic value with authentic pieces of the past centuries, catalogued and stored in special cabinets. Parts that are considered part of the family assets of the owners. The share to the public of these historical collections is a purely social and cultural.

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25 February 2021

WHITE digital format 2021

In the “fan of the new proposals” of White comes in team “Gallery&Friends”. Our shops and to some of the master craftsmen evolved has spoken on the occasion of the webinar on Thursday, February 25th at 11.00 am by the title “Shop Milan – Stories of the artisans ‘ workshops: the school of the new Renaissance, in the center of the renewed sustainable supply chain of Fashion”.

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30 December 2020

Bottega Milano at Palazzo Lombardia

Institutional meeting with Attilio Fontana, the President of the Region of Lombardy. The end of the year roaring for Gallery&Friends Milan, which holds the beauty of the 2020 thanks to the release of the photo book ‘ Workshop in Milan”. As said the President, “A book that represents the history and the present of commerce in Milan.”

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18 December 2020

Forum with laRepubblica

Appointment with the readers of TuttoMilano in the Library’s Mouth: an intriguing conversation with Giorgio Lodetti fireworks master of the house. Elisabetta Invernici and Alberto Oliva have the team Gallery&Friends Milano, going to the Shops and pausing here and there with anecdotes, memories and suggestions. For a shopping of tradition and innovation.

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7 December 2020

Bottega Milano

Presentation of the book “BOTTEGA MILAN” Gallery&Friends Milan, Elisabetta Invernici and Alberto Oliva and the photographer Roby Flasks, in the Bookshop at the Mouth of the Vittorio Emanuele Gallery. An event live on Facebook on the profile of the Library to tell the story of 41 historical shops that make up the culture in the city.
Among the guests, Cristina Tajani – Councilor for Productive Activities of the Municipality of Milan and Gianmarco Seine – Director of the Lombardy Region.

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February 18, 2020

Moda, forbici e tessuti

At Coltelleria Lorenzi and Valleys Fabrics relive, in a story in images conducted by E. Invernici, the story of the pioneers of fashion in Milan through the availability of original documents of the Lorenzi family and Valleys. Craftsmanship, hand-made, unique still today the only values that make these two places, addresses captive of the made in Italy to Milan.

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February 18, 2020

Mandelli colors the atmospheres

Recent work by Fernando Mandelli exhibited at the Galleria Bolzani and disseminated in the center of Milan in the Old Shops. Through an updated view of lombard painting of the landscape with its way, seemingly delicate, use the color Mandelli leads us along the Seine river in Paris, to the streets of Venice, in the countryside of the Brianza area, on the canals in Milan.

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December 3, 2019

It is Christmas

Evening Party in the atelier tradition, the Company Walter, with Ceratina and scented candles, Tricella and the nativity scene Val Gardena, Altamoda Viganò and jewelry Belle Époque, Coltelleria Lorenzi and cutlery vintage, Pastry Sommariva and the milanese panettone. Storytelling of A. Oliva. The guest of honor Valerio Vitantoni with the preview of the book “The Christmas Sissi” interviewed by E. Invernici.

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14 November 2019

Brawl In The Gallery

The event is 110 years from Futurism milan by E. Invernici with the artistic advice of A. Oliva. During the evening we will relive the atmosphere of the Movement through a theatrical improvisation, from the Antique Shops, you will liven up around the Octagon, culminating in a concert (Hats Doria 1905, accessories Ornella Bijoux, vest altamoda Bucciarelli&Mile).

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November 5, 2019

Milano è Valentina

During the evening we will relive the magical world of the Milanese Diva through images, sounds and unpublished testimonies. Available the volume “Valentina Cortese. 100 ritratti”- Skira Editore edited by E. Invernici and A. Zanoletti

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October 30, 2019

Walking with Valentina Cortese

Photo exhibition in the Old Shops of the Galleria&Friends Milano. Art installation of unforgettable shots that tell the public and private life of Valentina Cortese, taken from the book “Valentina Cortese. 100 portraits” by E. Invernici and A. Zanoletti – Skira Editore

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October 30, 2019

Lancio del progetto Galleria & Friends

Elisabetta Invernici and Alberto Oliva, Cristina Tajani, commissioner for employment, productive Activities, Trade and Human Resources invite you to the launch of the Gallery project&Friends Milano at 10.30 am at Savini Milano, 1867 Toscanini Room – Galleria V. Emanuele II, Milan, italy.

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