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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



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


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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Wine Tasting with Sommelier Matteo Pratesi with Wines from Castello Romitorio, Montalcino

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Pizza Cooking Class with Chef Silvia Moneti


Jazz Concert with Cocktails

monday, september 28TH

Classical Opera Recital

wednesday, september 23rd


saturday, september 26th

Site Visit with Elaine Ruffolo of San Marco and Palazzo Medici Riccardi

wednesday, september 30th


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| 17tuesday, september 22nd

Private Member Visit and Lunch to Bargino Antinori Winery

tuesday, september 22nd

Member Club Dinner with il Borro


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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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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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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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.





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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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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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.


Time 6.30 pm Where Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge




Private Visit and Aperitivo at the home of Florentine Photographer Massimo Listri

Time 6.30 pmWhere Via Sant Agostino 1RSVP by September 14th


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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Piano Recital with Gaia Caporiccio




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tuesday, september 22nd

Private Member Visit and Lunch to Bargino Antinori Winery


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



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



Time 11.00 amCost € 65 per person, 8 participants minimum required




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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Jazz Concert with Cocktails


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





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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