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Coptic Textiles Collection "Antonio Ratti" - by Dott.ssa Franca Angonoa Gilardi, translation by Elena forza

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Sommario

  1. Antonio Ratti
  2. Collection
  3. The study
  4. Listing: an operative proposal
  5. First and second Ratti collection - Catalogue: general features
  6. The Qibti
  7. Standard card of Ratti collection: analysis of each voice
  8. Typical stylistic features
  9. Bibliography
  10. Listing, publication and exhibition of A. Ratti collections
  11. Conclusions

Antonio Ratti

Antonio Ratti was a textile designer born in Como. He has always played a leading role both in his human and professional experience.
Shortly, this attitude led him to be one of the major Italian producers of silk textures and printed natural fibres[1].

Leader of a group very advanced in manufacturing research, he was fond of his work because of his great creativity. In a very short time he also became a great collector of textile documents, which had a key role in the designing and industrial sector as well and in 1985, he established the "Antonio Ratti Foundation"[2], followed in 1995 by the "Antonio Ratti Textile Centre" nearby MoMa.

He was considered one of the most creative representants of Italian economy and enterprise. In 1972 he was knighted for his merits in work and later he became a member of many administrative councils. Among them are R.C.S. editors, Mediobanca S.p.A., Associazione Amici di Brera, Ente di Villa Carlotta. Antonio Ratti died in 2002, aged 86.

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Note

[1] The history of the Ratti group begins in 1945 with the establishment of "Silk Textiles Antonio Ratti" for the creation and selling of textiles for ties and silk foulards. Today Ratti corporation, guided by the founder's daughter Donatella, has an international dimension and is one of the major producers of high-tech luxury goods worldwide. They include:textiles for women clothes, ties, furnishing and accessories.

[2] Antonio Ratti Foundation has the aim to support "activities, research and studies in artistic, cultural and technological fields, both for textile production and the preservation of cultural and artistic items".





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