Fulvia Notari is the only maker of glass jewellery chosen to exhibit at the twentieth edition of Premiére Classe, the most important international event dediacted to the world of accessories.
For accessory makers, reaching Paris’s Premiére Classe is the pinnacle of success: the Accessory Designers Trade Show is easily the most important world event in the field. During the fashion week, when the eyes of buyers from all over the world turn to the banks of the Seine, the Jardins des Tuleries become the landmark for discovering the coolest accessories in the fields of fashion, design and handcraft.
The Trade Show is a sure-fire event for professional visitors: Premiére Classe is open exclusively to exhibitors screened and chosen by the organisers. The aim is to offer buyers the best possible selection from among the latest trends in the world of accessories.
One of the leading standouts at the twentieth edition, held in Paris from 5 to October 2009, was Antares Venezia, the only glass jewellery exhibitors in the entire show.
Props go to Fulvia Notari, a Milanese artist and designer struck by a passion for a material that her creativity and the skilled hands of Muarno’s glassblowers know how to turn into real works of art.
Premiére Classe’s visitors could touch first-hand Antares Venezia’s wearing sculptures and, for the first time in twenty editions, admire Murano glass jewellery.
Fulvia Notari’s brilliant intuition was to take a centuries-old art such as glassworking and bend it to the demands of contemporary design, skilfully creating an ideal union between tradition and modernity.
Her glass jewellery philosophy is described in detail in the book commissioned by Premiére Classe to celebrate the twentieth edition of the show. The book introduces all the protagonists of the event. “My main inspiration” explain Fulvia Notari, “are primitive jewels, because they tell us a lot about the history of humankind. Similarly, contemporary jewellery represents modern society.”
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Antares’s wearing sculptures have been exhibited in prestigious stores around the world: from Italy’s 10 Corso Como, Trussardi and Alviero Martini (Milan), Palazzo Grassi (Venice) and Raku Capri (Capri) to Paris’s Galerié de l’Opéra, New York’s American Art&Craft Museum and Tokyo’s Takashimaya, as well as other stores in Kelsinki, Moscow, Seoul, Stockholm, Sydney and many more.
