“Hats off”. The Alfonso F. Grassi’s military and ethnic Collection of Hats

House Museum Boschi Di Stefano will organize the exposition edited by Anty Pansera "Hats off”. The Alfonso F. Grassi’s military and ethnic Collection of Hats.

The editor has chosen a "playful" formula connecting the Collection of Hats, expression of Alfonso Grassi’s ironic and unconventional personality – besides serious and intellectual one - and the design of international breath of the Architecture Study De Pas D’Urbino Lomazzi.

The hats of the collection will find place in two different apartments of the beautiful building in Via Jan, 15, inspired by the architect Portaluppi, representative of the elites’ taste of the first half of the '900.

Inside the rooms of the House Museum Boschi Di Stefano, at the second floor, ten different clothes-stands (Jack, Octopus, Shanghai, Wig, Pagoda, All-Clear, Sigh, Le petit Arbre, Why and a prototype not entered in production) will welcome thirty military headdress (“forage Caps", Basque Berets, the Alpine’s Hat with the black feather, the Bersaglieri Vayra Hat, the Kepi of the Artillery on horseback with its "black crest", the Policemen's wide brimmed Hat, oil lamp shaped, the Ascaris’ tarabushes, the fezzes or the “felt dark red lybic tachias” with the blue ribbon, the colonial or tropical Helmets, some of which date back to the thirties and so many others).

At the third floor, in the rooms where once Marieda Di Stefano ran her artistic pottery School, ten Shangai clothes-stands (model which won in 1979 the Golden Compass prize) loaned by Zanotta, will welcome thirty others hats: some Austrian Schützen hats, a Cardinal’s hat, a traditional headgear of the orthodox Siryac Monks bought during a trip in Egypt, some embroidered top hats - skùfos σκοῦφος – and the ones used by the orthodox Priests found in Ethiopia, the Australian “akubra”, the Scottish “deerstalker” and the “storta cap” from Palermo. The exbition The exhibition will also have a photograph section by Giovanna Dal Magro who made a collection of Alfonso Grassi’s portraits with his hats on.