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attaché monthly activities
September 2015
Palazzo Tornabuoni Lifestyle, Unique Member Only Experiences
Private Tour of the Duomo and Terraces
20 New events
Visit and Lunch at the Colle Bereto Winery
Member Day Trip to Siena and Montepulciano
A Private Tour of the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor
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September 2015
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monday, september 14th
Lecture with Art Historian Elaine Ruffolo| 09
thursday, september 10th
Visit and Lunch at the Colle Bereto Winery
monday, september 7th
Piano Recital with Soloist Natascha Majek
friday, september 11th
Member Trip to the Carrara Marble Quarries and Pietrasanta
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tuesday, september 15TH
Private Visit and Aperitivo at Palazzo Bargellini with Visit of Studio of Piero Bargellini
wednesday, september 16TH
Private Visit to the Opificio delle Pietre Dure
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thursday, september 17TH
Private Visit to Badia a Passignano and Tignanello| 12
monDAY, september 21st
Piano Recital with Gaia Caporiccio
friDAY, september 18th
Private Visit and Aperitivo at the home of Florentine Photographer Massimo Listri
monDAY, september 21st
A Private Tour of the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor when the museum is closed to the public
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thursday, september 17TH
Opening Cocktail to inaugurate the new Bronze Sculpture Exhibition by Artist Bjorn Okholm Skaarup
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monday, september 14th
Wine Tasting with Sommelier Matteo Pratesi with Wines from Castello Romitorio, Montalcino
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friday, september 25th
Pizza Cooking Class with Chef Silvia Moneti
friday, september 25th
Jazz Concert with Cocktails
monday, september 28TH
Classical Opera Recital
wednesday, september 23rd
Private Tour of the Duomo and Terraces
saturday, september 26th
Site Visit with Elaine Ruffolo of San Marco and Palazzo Medici Riccardi
wednesday, september 30th
Member Day Trip to Siena and Montepulciano
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Private Member Visit and Lunch to Bargino Antinori Winery
tuesday, september 22nd
Member Club Dinner with il Borro
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monday, september 7TH
Piano Recital with Soloist Natascha Majek
Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
Natascha will be playing a program of Mozart and Schumann.
The daughter of an artist, Natascha Majek began her studies of
thepianoforte at the age of seven with Dafne Filippini-Salati in
Lugano, Switzerland. Having obtained her high school diploma,
she then went on to graduate in less than two years from the Con-
servatorio della Svizzera Italiana with the argentine pianist Nora
Doallo. Following this she then completed three years of develop-
ment in the class of Homero Francesch at the Musikhochschule of
Zurich. In 1998 she moved to Florence, Italy where she followed
her degree of high soloist development with Piernarciso Masi, she
then spent two years in Paris in the class of Edson Elias.
Returning to Italy in 2002, she collaborated with the Conservato-
rio della Svizzera Italiana as an accompanist and participated in
various masterclasses led by Bruno Canino in Florence. Since 2010
she has divided her time between teaching the pianoforte and
performing as a recitalist, dedicating her time above all to soloist
repertoire.
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thursday, september 10th
Visit and Lunch at the Colle Bereto Winery
Time Depart Palazzo Tornabuoni at 10.00 am
Cost Euro 120.00 per person including transportation, wine and lunch
RSVP by September 5th, 6 participants minimum required
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friDAY, september 11th
Member Trip to the Carrara Marble Quarries and Pietrasanta
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Time Depart Palazzao Tornabuoni at 9.30 amCost € 150 per person for the marble tour and transportation, lunch to be paid separatelyRSVP by September 5th, 6 participants minimum
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monday, september 14th
Lecture with Art Historian Elaine Ruffolo
Time 6.30 pm Where Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
Popular leader and Renaissance art historian, Elaine Ruffolo, has
been the coordinator of the Field Studies program at Syracuse Uni-
versity for years.
Known for her uncanny ability to bring historical characters, lives
and ancient times to life with vignettes of daily life.
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monday, september 14th
Wine Tasting with Sommelier Matteo Pratesi with Wines from Castello Romitorio, Montalcino
Time 7.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club lounge
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wednesDAY, september 16TH
Private Visit to the Opificio delle Pietre Dure
Follow an expert on an exclusive visit to the Uffizi conservation laboratory at the Fortezza da Basso. Tour the high tech facilities while an
art conservator explains the methods and standards by which paintings are restored. You may see works by Giotto, Raphael or Fra Ange-
lico, out of their frames and under restoration.
Time 10.00 am Where Opificio delle Pietre Dure
Cost € 100,00 per person, 8 persons requiredRSVP by September 12th , 2015
tuesday, september 15th
Private Visit and Aperitivo at Palazzo Bargellini with Visit of Studio of Piero Bargellini
Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo BargelliniCost € 40 per personRSVP by September 10th , 2015
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thursday, september 17th
Private Visit to Badia a Passignano and Tignanello
Time Depart Palazzo Tornabuoni at 10.00 amCost € 220 per person for the wine tour and lunch, € 70 per person for transportationRSVP by September 10th, Minimum number of participants 7
Visit the vineyards with an introduction to Vine-growing and production; Visit to the historical Abbey cellars, followed by lunch at Michelin
starred restaurant Osteria di Passignano restaurant with a menu accompanied by the prestigious Antinori signature wines: Cervaro della
Sala, Chianti Classico Riserva Badia a Passignano, Tignanello, Guado al Tasso and Solaia preceded by extra-virgin olive oils tasting. Lunch
will be followed by a visit to the famous Tignanello vineyards.
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thursday, september 17th
Opening Cocktail to inaugurate the new Bronze Sculpture Exhibition by Artist Bjorn Okholm Skaarup
“My work plays between the limits of nature and culture,” says
sculptor Bjørn Okholm Skaarup. “The animals are thoroughly
‘culturalized’—they represent human allegories or use manmade
tools.”
Okholm Skaarup has created a contemporary bestiary, or classical
book of animals, in bronze. Each sculpture presents a whimsical
story or allegory to decipher, with sources ranging from ancient
fables and art history to music and modern animation. The
Majestic Lion, traditional king of the animals, wears the crown
and armor of a great monarch in the style of Medici court sculptor
Giambologna, yet he sits astride a rocking horse, a reference to
his fleeting and jovial power. Frogs reenact Homeric battles in
the Batrachomyomachia, while mice peer through spectacles and
listen at telephones as The Five Senses. A cheetah rides a scooter
to move faster, a giraffe stands on stilts to reach higher, and a
kangaroo bounces on a pogo stick—a “kængurustylte” in Okholm
Skaarup’s native Danish.
From 1994-2004, Okholm Skaarup was an artist at the Danish
National Museum, Copenhagen, before moving to Florence and
receiving a PhD from the European University Institute in 2009.
While in Florence, he studied the work of Renaissance sculptors
Donatello, Michelangelo, and Giambologna, learning the
vanishing art of large-scale bronze casting.
“I am constantly trying to improve my skills in modeling, and see
how far the medium can go,” Okholm Skaarup explains. “How
many fun details you can add, how many forms you can create—
ideally large, heavy forms that rest on light foundations, so the
work appears as vibrant as possible. With bronze, you can make
the most dynamic shapes imaginable.”
The bronze form of a capricorn, clinging to a mountaintop as it is
being lifted into the air, is just such a tour de force of contemporary
bronze working. In a post-cataclysmic world, flooded by ever-
rising oceans, the capricorn takes refuge on the highest mountain
peak, only to be rescued by a hardy rat piloting a zeppelin and
bringing it to safety.
In Okholm Skaarup’s intricately polychrome work, he explores
the voluminous form of a tutu and leotard-clad hippo, which
at once references Degas’s Little Dancer of Fourteen Years and
Walt Disney’s Fantasia. Or another hippo, sprawled in the pose
of Ingres’s Grande Odalisque, or even a Dinosaur paleontologist,
mystified to discover the Flintstones’ Flintmobile among the
rubble.
Okholm Skaarup’s indoor and outdoor sculptures have been the
subject of museum exhibitions throughout the world, including the
Koldinghus Museum, Kolding, Denmark; the Museo Cenacolo di
Ognissanti and Four Seasons Hotel, Florence; and Hotel Cipriani,
Venice. In 2015, the Collectivité of St. Barth publically displayed a
suite of sculptures throughout the island. This October, The Bruce
Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut will organize a solo exhibition
of Okholm Skaarup’s work.
Bjørn Okholm Skaarup lives and works in New York City. He is a
member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
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Time 6.30 pm Where Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
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friday, september 18th
Private Visit and Aperitivo at the home of Florentine Photographer Massimo Listri
Time 6.30 pmWhere Via Sant Agostino 1RSVP by September 14th
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Massimo Listri in 1953 began his career as a photographer at a very young age. At 17 he was collaborating with numerous magazines de-
dicated to Art and Architecture. During his university years he studied Arts and Letters and continued to expand his work, contributing
numerous photographic services to publications devoted to Art, Architecture, and Interior Design. In 1981 Massimo founded the inter-
nationally renowned magazine and art books FMR, with the publisher Franco Maria Ricci and Vittorio Sgarbi. For 20 years this beautiful
magazine served as the major vehicle for the expression of Massimo’s photographic essays of the most beautiful Palaces, Villas, Interior
Design, and Architecture from all periods. In thirty years Massimo has published more than 60 books with the most prestigious publishers
in Europe and the United States.
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monday, september 21st
A Private Tour of the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor when the museum is closed to the public
Time 10.o0 amCost € 250 per personRSVP by September 15th, Minimum number of participants 6
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monDAY, september 21st
Piano Recital with Gaia Caporiccio
Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
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tuesday, september 22nd
Private Member Visit and Lunch to Bargino Antinori Winery
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Time Depart Palazzo Tornabuoni at 9.45amWhere Bargino Antinori WineryCost € 125,00 per person; this price includes the visit, lunch and transportationRSVP by September 18th, Minimum 6 participants
Members are warmly invited for a Private Visit and Lunch at the beautiful Bargino Antinori winery.
The visit, of about 1 hour, is a “Journey” through the history of the Antinori family which has been producing wine in Tuscany since 1385.
The path - which runs through all the stages of the production, starting from the vineyard to the glass – ends with “the tasting”, with three
representative wines of the territory. Afterwards, you will have lunch at the “Rinuccio 1180” restaurant.
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tuesDAY, september 22nd
Member Club Dinner with “Il Borro”
Time Aperitivo served from 7.00 pm Where Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Terrace Cost Estimated Cost, € 65.00 per person, this will be confirmed in relation to the number of participantsRSVP by September 15th, 15 participants minimum required
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The origins of the village of Il Borro are lost in the history of medieval Tuscany and the famous people who established the reputation of
the region. Every alley, every stone speaks of a time that once was, of flavours and scents that recall the memory of a rare and more au-
thentic Tuscany.Surrounded by vineyards and olive groves, in the shadow of the cypress trees of the ancient Via dei Sette Ponti, (an area
rich in art and culture between the three main cities of Tuscany Florence, Arezzo and Siena), The Medici dynasty, the Savoia family and
now the Ferragamo family have safeguarded and preserved this precious oasis, making this place, suspended between past and present,
a sanctuary dedicated to well being and the art of hospitality.
Osteria del Borro’s executive Chef Andrea Campani will be catering a special dinner for Palazzo Members. This Tuscan menu with a twist
will be accompanied by the Ferragamo Il Borro wines.
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wednesday, september 23rd
Private Tour of the Duomo and Terraces
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Time 11.00 amCost € 65 per person, 8 participants minimum required
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friDAY, september 25th
Pizza Cooking Class with Chef Silvia Moneti
Time 4.30 pm
Where Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Kitchen
Cost € 70.00 per person, Minimum 6 participants required
RSVP by September 20th
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friDAY, september 25th
Jazz Concert with Cocktails
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Time 6.30pm Where Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
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saturday, september 26th
Site Visit with Elaine Ruffolo of San Marco and Palazzo Medici Riccardi
Time 10.00 amCost € 75.00 per person including entrance feesRSVP by September 20th, minimum number of participants 6
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Monday,september 28th
Classical Opera Recital
wednesday, september 30th
Member Day Trip to Siena and Montepulciano
Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
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Time Depart the Palazzo at 9.30am
Cost Euro 100 per person, cost includes transportation, private visit to
winery with tasting, lunch is not included, 6 participants mini
mum required
RSVP by September 25th
9.30 am Depart Florence and drive to Siena
10.30 am Arrive in Siena. Your guide Margarita, will meet you in
the Piazza del Campo and give you a tour of the histori
cal centre of Siena and its main monuments.
12.30 pm Lunch at Le Logge
Le Logge Via del Porrione, 33, Siena - Tel. +39 0577 48013
3.00 pm Arrive in Montepulciano
Visit of the Avignonesi Winery and Wine Tasting
Via Colonica 1
6.00 pm Arrive back at Palazzo Tornabuoni
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