{"id":9338,"date":"2018-06-26T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T15:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2018-06-26T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T15:35:44","slug":"highlights-luxury-design-craftsmanship-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/highlights-luxury-design-craftsmanship-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Highlights of the Luxury Design & Craftsmanship Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Luxury Design<\/strong><\/em> & Craftsmanship summit<\/strong><\/em> happened last week. See all the highlights from the event below.<\/h3>\n

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The 1st edition of the Luxury Design & Craftsmanship Summit was held in Porto last week. The event, organized by Covet Group, gathered top\u00a0brands from the Portuguese luxury industry, such as Vista Alegre<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, Top\u00e1zio<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and Boca do Lobo<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and foundations that exist to preserve the craftsmanship arts<\/strong><\/em>, such as the Michaelangelo Foundation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here are all the highlights from the event that celebrated both luxury and craftsmanship.\"The<\/p>\n

The Summit lasted two days and the guests were presented with several live showcases of traditional Portuguese Arts & Crafts, such as Filigree, Tilling, Arraiolos and Renda de Bilros, among many others. The showcases promoted a strong bond between the artisans and the participants, and the end result was amazing.\"The<\/p>\n

The Opening Session was conducted by the CEO of Covet Group, Amandio Pereira. His speech reinforced the importance that craftsmanship plays in the design group, but also in Portugal and especially in the furniture design industry. The first panel in the event titled \u201cThe Value of Craftsmanship For The Luxury World\u201d and had the contribution of Amandio Pereira, CEO of Covet Group, Nicole Segundo, Network Developer to Portugal for the Michaelangelo Foundation, F\u00e1tima Santos,\u00a0General Secretary of <\/em><\/strong>AORP, Luis Onofre, CEO of the brand Luis Onofre and Antonio Moura, business developer.\"The<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2nd Panel of the Event opened\u00a0the Day 2 of the event. Entitled\u00a0\u00a0Design as a Driving Force of Local Craftsmanship, this\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>panel focus on the evolution of design and interior design, which started to be as branches of architecture, an industry that was always understood as the major art. And if the interior design segment was considered a component of architecture, the design of clothing, furniture, jewelry and other common artifacts were also left mostly to tradition or artisans specializing in handmade products.\u00a0The Panel had the contribution of\u00a0Fernando Caetano (Moderator), director of Open Media; Jo\u00e3o Branco e Luis Sanch\u00e9z, fashion designers and CEO\u2019s of the Storytailors Fashion Studio<\/a>; Toni Grilo, product designer of\u00a0Top\u00e1zio<\/a>; Alda Tom\u00e1s, designer of\u00a0Vista Alegre<\/a>; Serena Confalonieri, designer; Francesca Merciari, artisan.\"The<\/strong><\/p>\n

After an eventful morning with a magnificent panel about the origins of craftsmanship and it\u2019s connection with the design industry, the\u00a0Luxury Design & Craftsmanship Summit<\/a>\u00a0resume its agenda with a discussion about luxury design!\u00a0What makes a Luxury Brand and how do you create one? This was the focal point of the third and last panel of this event entitled: \u201cLuxury Branding: Behind the Scenes Story\u201d!\"The<\/p>\n

This panel\u00a0had the moderation of\u00a0M\u00f3nica Seabra-Mendes, the Luxury Management Program Coordinator of Universidade Catolica, and had the participation of Marco Costa, COO and Creative Director of\u00a0Boca do Lobo;<\/a>\u00a0Jorge Martins, founder of RomBoats; Carlos Santos, CEO and Creative Director of Santos Shoes; and Carla Gra\u00e7a, Marketing Manager of\u00a0Vista Alegre<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The event finished with the news that next year the Summit will be held in Paris! If you missed this year event you can\u2019t miss next year\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Luxury Design & Craftsmanship summit happened last week. See all the highlights from the event below. The 1st edition of the Luxury Design & Craftsmanship Summit was held in Porto last week. The event, organized by Covet Group, gathered top\u00a0brands from the Portuguese luxury industry, such as Vista Alegre, Top\u00e1zio and Boca do Lobo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":9340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9346,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions\/9346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}