You may have seen the elegant Florentine Marbled paper in our catalogue. Now find out more about the person behind these artisan papers. She is the talented second generation Florentine marble artist, Laura Berretti.
Laura’s techniques are grounded in a tradition dating back hundreds of years; and each sheet is an original and unique work of art.
Marbled papers, produced as in the 16th century, were created by Laura for the fly leaves for what was billed as the most expensive book in the world, "Michelangelo: La Dotta Mano" ("Michelangelo: The Learned Hand")
published by the fine art publishing house, FMR - ART'E'. A copy is currently shown at the New York Public Library.
Another FMR masterwork,"Deus Caritas Est" used Laura’s marbled sheet for the guard leaves of this historical book which a copy was donated to the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI.
Laura's collaboration was also needed for the production of another precious artistic book,"Antonio Canova - L'innovazione della Bellezza" ("Antonio Canova - The Invention of Beauty"). An artistic masterpiece produced in limited edition donated to the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and to the other Heads of States during the G8 summit in L'Aquila, July 2009.
- In the project "La civiltà della Bellezza", La Repubblica presents the "BOOK WORKSHOP".
A project by FMR Art which consists of producing completely hand made refined volumes thanks to a network of forty handycraft specialists sparsed in the whole italian territory.
...Who are these craftsmen and how they work...
download the pdf file - "La repubblica" - "Officina del Libro" 30 Novembre 2008. (the file is in Italian)
- "MICHELANGELO: LA DOTTA MANO" ("Michelangelo: The Learned Hand") Considered as the most beautiful and most expensive book in the world arrived at the New York Public Library - December 2008.
published by the fine art publishing house, FMR - ART'E'. A copy is currently shown at the New York Public Library.
Another FMR masterwork,"Deus Caritas Est" used Laura’s marbled sheet for the guard leaves of this historical book which a copy was donated to the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI.
Laura's collaboration was also needed for the production of another precious artistic book,"Antonio Canova - L'innovazione della Bellezza" ("Antonio Canova - The Invention of Beauty"). An artistic masterpiece produced in limited edition donated to the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and to the other Heads of States during the G8 summit in L'Aquila, July 2009.
