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The Chapel Museum has been building a documentary collection of its activities, which includes, among others, the catalogs of its temporary exhibitions, which are now available. These publications are available for consultation at the Documentation Center and can also be purchased at the museum store.
Saar Snoek is a Dutch artist, recognized for her innovative approach to felting and the ability to create pieces of great expressiveness.
"Feltro Vivo: a Manifesto" presents itself as a position on the potential of felt as matter and as a form of expression. It is an appeal to recognize in the felt not just what was, but everything that is and may still be.
Nicknammed "Phillip Treacy in skirts" by Vogue Brazil, Graciella Starling presents bold creations, in a perfect symbiosis of hat-making tradition and avant-garde fashion. The Carnival of Brazil is one of its great stages. Her hats are worn on the most elegant and powerful heads in Brazil.
The hat brand Ilariusss is a contemporary Italian hat brand. It combines the tradition of felt and artisanal production with sophisticated and provocative elegance. Its pieces combine art, heritage, haute couture, and modernity.
The brand was founded in 2013 in Milan by Ilaria Soncini. The brands creative vision
Luís Stoffel is an artist, craftsman, designer, milliner, who from an early age embarked on the world of arts.
In 2022, the Hat Museum presented the collection of a national hat maker. There are hats, headdresses, fascinators and sculptural head
Looking to make a journey of discovery to his creative “Self”, in 2011, Francesco Ballestrazzi launched the label “Francesco Ballestrazzi Hats & Creations”, with which he started to give shape to what would become visual expressions of his dreams and inspirations.
"Donna Hartley Millinery. A Touch of Elegance" is the new international temporary exhibition at the Museum of Hatmaking.
The Donna Hartley Millinery brand began in May 2015, born from a deep friendship between a hat designer and a visual artist.
Donna Hartleys expertise in traditional hat and headdress design and craftsmanship is combined with creative exuberance and an artistic eye.
Owner of a very peculiar style, Marianne Jongkind is known for the use of sleek lines and eccentrically voluminous shapes, sometimes geometric, which allude to one of her favourite sources of inspiration: architecture.
Araceli Sancho is creative genius. She’s passion and creativity. Fantasy and reality. Tradition and contemporaneity. Visually unique, her hats and headpieces are defined by a bold handling of shapes and volumes, by a conscious preference for recyclable materials and by a unique explosion of colour and energy. They are eclectic and timeless pieces, but they are also profoundly emotional and symbolic.
There’s an almost compulsory urgency in the act of creation, that which makes us take everything out of nothing. Which grants existence where there was only void. To create is to produce. It is to give birth to. To create is also a catharsis. It is to abandon all that is harmful. Or simply useless. To create is an act of refinement. Of growth. For that reason, it is an emergency. An inevitable occurrence.
There is movement in Estibalitz Diaz de Durana. There is colour. Plenty of colour. There is eccentricity. There is a flaming excess that reaches us through the sculptural shapes she explores and the materials she chooses and experiments with, but also through the subject matter that inspires her. Because hats, according to the designer, summarise all that she most values in the world.
Creativity and disruptive thinking characterise the work of Maor Zabar and Kobi Levi. They transform the products of two very different industrial sectors – shoes and hats – with a very close connection to S. João da Madeira, its history, its present and certainly its future, into true artistic manifestos, through which they reflect and make us reflect about the simplest and almost imperceptible things of everyday life.
"Pablo Y Mayaya” is the brand of the famous Spanish hatters duo composed by Pablo Merino and Mayaya Cebrián. Sharing a vision in which tradition meets modernity, Pablo and Mayaya dedicate themselves to the creation and personalization of beautiful hats and headdresses where each piece receives a little of its soul.
