OPERA is an offer of services and advice for interior design and urban spaces. It's a project Italian born in Florence thanks to the passion of the architect Cristina Benedictines.
"Architecture is a way of telling the world and time", with this philosophy WORK interprets the desires and needs of the interlocutor, to give voice and body to his dreams.
With OPERA Cristina Benedictines brings together the best tradition of Italian craftsmanship, international allure and technological innovation.
Cristina Benedictines caters to private partners, contractors and architects, which provides support for specific areas, with the belief that the success of an architectural intervention measure in greater well-being of those who live and working in the space.
"The combination of craftsmanship, technology and design is the link between territory, art and science, history and future," This applies not only to the interior architecture but also for many other small works that love (like The Circle Italy Onlus) or larger projects of urban architecture (cf. Masterplan Sienna La Dolfina Polo Club).
"Real or imaginary worlds and times tells about architecture, ways of being and thinking of all those involved; being an architect means listening, interpreting, interact with the surrounding reality"
This idea are seemingly different professional experiences from the activity in interior architecture. Consulting for luxury brands (cf. VERSACE, MARNI, TOD's and HOGAN, Antonio Fusco), installations worldwide exhibitions abroad (cf. Dolce Stil Novo in Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2011), collaborations with large set designers or small art galleries (A + TEXTILE ART INTERIOR DESIGN).
An idea of Architecture, proposed at the SHANGHAI EXPO from Cristina Benedictines with the project PinocchioWorld which illustrates the architecture of a fairy tale world.
In 32 shots made by Aldo Fallai, internationally renowned photographer, in the places of the tale, in Collodi and around, you discover a stylistic cut tended to emphasize and actualize the iconic nature of the character. The photographs shall maintain an atmosphere of temporal suspension by ' contemporary fairytale ', according to a metaphysics of light capable of restoring an atmosphere of suspension between dream and reality, between fairytale and life. The wooden puppet who becomes a child thus becomes a symbol of excellence in handicrafts Tuscany capable of making ' living thing ' inanimate matter and refined for a promotion vehicle of Tuscany: unique territory for history, art, beauty, landscapes and lifestyle.
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