Handcraft in Naples-Italy, art ,culture and tradition

What to say of a city ,Naples,where there is still the ability to work by hands coral, jewels,cammeos, ties, hat ,tissues,gloves, shoes simply bound to the tradition of very important griffes as Mario Valentino, Sarli,Scikko. There is the aim to carry on ancient purposes because in Naples there's always the idea to belong to the 'family' in the positive and in the negative way.Marinella in Naples, a shop who for generation sells ties, is famous all over the world for the main purpose :to carry on the project 'old 'and 'modern'' at the same time of a family!Eugenio Marinella in 1914 opened a shop and neckties remain the company's key product and the object of desire for all men, not just celebrities such as : Aristotele Onassis ,Luchino Visconti, Bill Clinton.Nowaday the old fashioned shop , in a world where the brightning steel of the shops  exicites our  visual sensibility, may be considered as a treasure trove where everyman will find anything his heart desires: from jacquard silk to regimental patterns and the famous Marinella ties made by folding the silk no less than seven times.  The shoes in Naples know  how to become  the object of the desire  ,and very ambitious is the project of Sabina Albano and Willy Santangelo ,in their Emporio,situated in via Vetreria. They want to show collection of shoes creating a harmonious blend of art and fashion by surrounding the shoes with painting of volcanos and fashion sketches amid Schatzy Mosca bags and elegant jewelry by local designers.The shop's basement is used as an exibition venue so that alternative young painters ,photographres, desigers,and high-fliers from Naples Design Academy can emerge and make a name for themselves.What makes  the Neapolitan so open minded is the way of life ,so  circular in the embrace being Naples a city on the sea , ready to welcome, through the century people with different point of wievs.Gold in the Borgo Orefici quarter ; where the workshops have sparkled for centuries. Even in this place the 'families ' and their names are to be remembered for the ability to work in a very patient way , by hand  rings, bracelets, earings in despite of the technology. The members of the this community of work  have in the DNA the knowledge  of the french craftmen at the court of the Anjou kings and queens . Nowaday the Neapolitan school is renowned for its fine silver tableware and ornaments, occasionally embellished with crystal ,coral or bone,and jewellery- an area in which Neapolitan flair excels What a splendid effect has the traditionin the hands of the Neapolitans!Besides try not to forget ,visiting Naples , the coral of torre del Greco where skilled fishermen who saliled all over the Mediterranean where entchantd by th branches of coral which became entangled in their nets. We do sill believe in the power of the coral ...so magic .That's why we have the heritage to continue what the Normans and the Angevin did using coral in thie jewelry during their permanence in Naples.

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