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In 2020 the cooperation between Ratti and EFI and is chaired by Annie Ratti. It is a not-for-profit 7,800
was further reinforced through the signing of institution that disseminates culture, history and
a partnership agreement based on the shared global trends in textiles and contemporary art. Books and a rich collection
objectives of the United Nations’ sustainable Thanks to its calendar of courses and exhibitions, of fashion magazines in the
library
development goals (goals 1,4, 5, 8, 12) and inspired the Foundation’s goal is to promote research and
studies that will enable researchers and artists to
by the principles and logic of the International Bill produce new and ambitious works that have been +400,000
of Human Rights.
specifically conceptualised. A collection of more than
Finally, Ratti is strongly committed to its 400,000 antique textiles
partnership with Siticibo, a programme of the With the objective of spreading the culture of
Banco Alimentare Foundation ONLUS (non-profit beauty to the public at large to enrich the creativity 30,000
organisation), that was set up in Milan in 2003 to of new languages and experiences, the Foundation
collect excess food from canteens. makes available the antique textile collections from Fabric sheets digitalised
its archive to the increasingly numerous exhibitions in the multimedia catalogue
organised in Italy and abroad.
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Ratti and the Foundation “Culture is entrusting to critical knowledge and to
renewal the stillness we receive from the past and
supporting culture from the present”, Antonio Ratti, 1990.

Ratti supports the Antonio Ratti Foundation in the
promotion of initiatives, research and studies with The antique textile collection
the objective of spreading the culture of beauty as of Antonio Ratti
the first source of creativity. The Foundation preserves the antique textile
The Antonio Ratti Foundation was founded in 1985 collections of Antonio Ratti; they are considered
to be of exceptional interest by the Italian state
– they number more than 400,000 fabrics that
illustrate the history of fabric from the III to the
XX Century. The collections up to the 1980s have
been subject to research and promotion by the
Foundation through courses, publications, themed
exhibitions, and the involvement of scholars in
Talking Hands, a permanent fashion, design and the field of the history of global fabric. Antique
innovation workshop which, since 2016, has brought
together a group of refugee asylum-seekers through
new planning and manual activities.
This marriage led to the production of new masks, and
was the result of meticulous and careful work ranging
from printing to packaging. In this way it has become
a perfect synthesis of the Como art of printing and the
manufacturing culture of the Veneto. "Culture is entrusting
The raw material used to make these masks is Wax,
a fabric made from a meeting of many different to critical knowledge
cultures. Every piece of the collection tells of a beauty and to renewal the stillness
that is out of the ordinary, handmade as an expression we receive from the past
of individuality, of an unrepeatable beauty and, last
but not least, represents a business model for building and from the present"
a society which is more equal and cohesive, whose Antonio Ratti, 1990
uniqueness is based on value and whose differences
are a resource.