Set up in the tissues of ancient hall of the Museo del Tessuto, the exhibition is a journey in style and taste of the artistic culture of the eighteenth century, through fashion, the fabric and the decorative arts.
Over 100 exhibits, including textiles, male and female clothing, china, fashion accessories, paintings and engravings tell the style changes which take place in this period of history, exoticism to the “whims” of composition of the first half of the century up the classical forms austere neoclassical ornamentation. The combination of fabrics to different types of artifacts and artistic techniques allows visitors to have a complete view of all the styles that cross the century – bizarre, chinoiserie, dentelles, revel just to mention a few examples of eighteenth-century textile production – so coming to create an ongoing dialogue with both the clothing and fashion accessories, and with the other pieces of furniture.
The exhibition makes use of decisive and prestigious collaboration of the Museum of Fashion and Costume of the Uffizi Gallery, the Stibbert Museum in Florence and the Textile Studio Museum of Como Antonio Ratti Foundation, as well as other prestigious institutions both public and private, that have allowed the construction of a single exhibition and novel of a century so rich and complex as the eighteenth century.
In addition to fabrics in our collections, overtime clothing from the Museum of Fashion and Costume of the Uffizi Gallery, the rare examples in silk Textile Studio Museum of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti , interact with the precious waistcoat and fine pottery of the treasure trove that is the Stibbert Museum in Florence . They enrich the way the volumes of the Central National Library of Florence, footwear era from Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, the paintings from the Museum of Palazzo Pretorio in Prato and the Florentine antique galleries Heirs Antonio Esposito – Antiques Gallery, Collection Giovanni Pratesi, TornabuoniArt.
