A mellow Florentine mansion, with a Renaissance loggia, lion's head fountain and a picture-postcard view over the apricot aura of the city is the new home of the Fondazione Roberto Capucci. The great artist/couturier who, at age 76, is still creating sculptural wonders in his Rome studio, has donated his entire archive of 400 pieces, 22,000 fashion sketches, 300 illustrations, photographs and film to the city of Florence, which gave him his fashion start in 1950. Capucci designs and the master's drawings will be shown this fall when the Villa Bardini will be opened in October.
This meld of soaring creativity and Italian craftsmanship should be a magnet for students and art lovers when the foundation opens to the public in October.
This meld of soaring creativity and Italian craftsmanship should be a magnet for students and art lovers when the foundation opens to the public in October.
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