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Keyrings '90s
Minor collecting and copoclephile
April 28, 2018

We continue our survey of “vintage” texts on minor collecting by presenting a text directly connected to our new issue dedicated to key rings. The following was extracted from the famous essay “Minor Collecting” written by Massimo Alberini and published by Garzanti in 1984. The extract reflects on both the [...]

How to start a collection
March 11, 2018

The evolution of both collecting and a collector’s figure in the society is one of the most interesting aspects of our research. How does collecting transform? And how does the interest in objects manage to survive in our progressively more digitalized and virtual reality? In order to find answers to [...]

The dignity of ugly things
December 18, 2017

One of the most fascinating aspects of our work is meeting and getting to know the people who share our research and aesthetic interests. Often we come upon some pretty crazy situations. Some of them are so insane that they inspire us to start new collaborations! One example of this [...]

Travel Trophies
November 28, 2017

Starting with our first works of art we have always been interested in souvenirs as an artistic subject. One of our photographic series, commissioned by Flaminio Gualdoni for the journal FMR Bianca in 2008, is even called Souvenir d’Italie. We tried to imagine the arrangements of these strange objects in [...]

The Melamine
November 22, 2017

After introducing the collector of the souvenir ashtrays and the illustrator who creates the backgrounds for our works, we would like to examine the material that the objects themselves are made of: melamine. In order to do so, we solicited the support of a world expert on collecting and materials [...]

Walter Molino – By Marino Bartoletti
November 7, 2017

As many of you have probably noticed when looking through the pages of our first book, there are a couple of black and white illustrations that interact ironically with the images. Some of you have probably recognized Walter Molino, the author of those illustrations. Walter Molino (1915 – 1997) was [...]

The Gondola
November 26, 2017

Date: 02/02/2012 21.51 To: info@petripaselli.com Subject: re: gondola Hey guys, I bought your gondola… right now it is on an old table in a visible spot. Like you, I love vintage objects, I have my own collection of plastic souvenir ashtrays with views of Italian and foreign sights, about 120 [...]

Keyrings '90s
Minor collecting and copoclephile
April 28, 2018

We continue our survey of “vintage” texts on minor collecting by presenting a text directly connected to our new issue dedicated to key rings. The following was extracted from the famous essay “Minor Collecting” written [...]

How to start a collection
March 11, 2018

The evolution of both collecting and a collector’s figure in the society is one of the most interesting aspects of our research. How does collecting transform? And how does the interest in objects manage to [...]

The dignity of ugly things
December 18, 2017

One of the most fascinating aspects of our work is meeting and getting to know the people who share our research and aesthetic interests. Often we come upon some pretty crazy situations. Some of them [...]

Travel Trophies
November 28, 2017

Starting with our first works of art we have always been interested in souvenirs as an artistic subject. One of our photographic series, commissioned by Flaminio Gualdoni for the journal FMR Bianca in 2008, is [...]

The Gondola
November 26, 2017

Date: 02/02/2012 21.51 To: info@petripaselli.com Subject: re: gondola Hey guys, I bought your gondola… right now it is on an old table in a visible spot. Like you, I love vintage objects, I have my [...]

The Melamine
November 22, 2017

After introducing the collector of the souvenir ashtrays and the illustrator who creates the backgrounds for our works, we would like to examine the material that the objects themselves are made of: melamine. In order [...]