The Centro Ippico Torinese (Horse Riding Club Torino) was one of Carlo Mollino’s first works. Opened in 1940 and demolished in 1960, due to the communal concession expiration, in its short life of only 20 years, the building stood for some of Carlo Mollino’s architecture’s most typical features. The quest for volumetric movement, aerial suspension, […]
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Louis Tuaillon’s (1862–1919) amazon on Horseback (ca. 1890/95, Bronze cast 1895), represents a mythical people of fighting women. It is not depicted as a dangerous warrior (as in August Kiss’s sculpture at the front of the Altes Museum), but as the epitome of self-control, mastery, and concentration. The ‘Amazon’ is regarded not merely as a […]
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A visual celebration of Ralph Lauren’s equestrian iconography told and presented throughout the language of some of his most coveted ADV’s. Showcasing iconic imagery of American equestrian places and things. Like the old plaid shirts, the tweed jackets, the coats, the cars, the trucks, the white clapboard farmhouses. Ralph Lauren himself states that “They are everything that […]
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Verona, 7-10 November 2019 – Fieracavalli launches the first edition of Art & Cavallo, the contemporary art exhibition with an equestrian theme, which elects the horse as a true work of art. […]
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Arles, summer 2019. We decide to spend a few days in the luminous second homeland of Van Gogh. The ancient Roman city is situated on the edge of the French Camargue, a place evoking immediately in the imaginary of the horse lover herds of greys galloping on beaches while throwing their white manes wildly into the air. […]
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Den Kongelige Stald-Etat, as the royal stable is called in Danish, has been transporting the Royal family around and supplying horses for leisure and hunting activities for 326 years. Their location at Christiansborg slot in Copenhagen dates back 275 years to 1740, when the former Christiansborg Castle (burned down in 1794 and 1884) stood finished, and […]
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Rome, Piazza di Siena, Sunday 26th May 2019 – An exceptional experience and full immersion into the Rolex Grand Slam – the excellence of showjumping at the highest level – replays in my mind. Invited by Gobbi 1842, official Rolex dealer in Milan since more than fifty years, I had the chance to live that […]
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Tutte le strade portano a Roma anche quella del Gran Premio Rolex, che si terrà dal dal 23 al 26 maggio nella prestigiosa Piazza di Siena. […]
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The horse has always been one of infinite art forms’ favorite subjects. One of my absolute favorite horse photography is part of the coordinated image of Miart 2015. In 2012 Studio Mousse was commissioned to create a new graphic identity for miart, the International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art in the city of Milan. […]
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I’ll always remember the first time I discovered the marvellous creations of Bottega Conticelli. Saint Tropez, Athina Onassis Horse Show, May 2016. The champions of showjumping showing under a perfectly blue sky over beautiful Pampelonne beach, where the chef de piste Uliano Vezzani, designed his course. In the middle of that much perfection, it’s not […]
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