ALEXANDRIA - It is gold, the work of Miriam: that of dreams, hands that shape and reshape metallic beauties. He found it at age 26, leaving his Genoa for a remote valley to half an hour of hairpin turns of the crisis.
"Elsewhere - he says - I would not have had the same opportunities."
The goldsmith, here, gliel'hanno date turnkey. Free, excluding bills. The project began three years ago: a village at risk depopulation, San Sebastian Curona, province of Alessandria, an association and a score of craftsmen who moved to block. Evidence that the "old masters" are less and less old, on the outskirts of the triangle post-industrial and around the beautiful country. The idea is "to point about traditional as model of social development," explains Marina Giocanda association Artinfiera a development "that creates sustainable added value for both the territory and the quality of products" .The thing is that they are succeeding. From 2013 are already 25 craftsmen who have set up shop. They range dall'artigiana of Val d'Aosta who works silk Como carpenter, there are those who carve, who sculpts, who specializes in dyes.
They come from all over the center-north for a summer or just three days this weekend were a hundred, for the twelfth edition of Artinfiera. Many remain year-round, as Miriam:
"It may seem counter-cultural choice for a degree in design. But actually, I found an ideal incubator ".
[Source: corriere.it]
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