TEHRAN – Several Iranian goldsmiths are promoting their delicate expertise at the Florence Jewelry Week, which opened on May 24 in the very heart of the Italian city, the “Oltrarno” district near Santo Spirito Square.

A total of 30 works crafted by 14 artisans, who belong to younger generations of Iranian goldsmiths, have also been put on show at the event, CHTN reported on Wednesday.

Anahita Anasori, Ashkan Behjou, Baharak Omidfar, Narges Asadinejad, and Niloufar Nadi amongst others artists have made every effort to create ornamental designs that incorporate modern techniques with ancient domestic ones, the report said.

Organized by the Le Arti Orafe (LAO) Jewellery School, the event will be running until May 28 and includes exhibitions by contemporary artists from various countries, lectures and presentations, workshops led by invited artists, lecturers and curators.

According to the arrangers, the exhibit emphasizes on the interactions between traditional and artistic research, manual skills and new technologies, and between the different meanings and symbolical values that jewelers can take on in different cultural and geographical environments.

PHOTO: A prehistoric Iranian gold griffin-headed armlet dating back to the Achaemenid era (c. 550 – 330 BC). 

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