The first "luminarie", as historic
records show, first appared in the fifteenth century,
during the time where the "PARATURA”(luminarie) (decorations of profane or of cult places) gains the
favours of the court and the aristocracy of
Later on it spread gaining the favours of the crowds thanks to the initiative
of the clergy.
The craftmanship started to develop into an art,
seeing the
The "galleries" are a perfect example.
Santa Cesarea
boulevard (end '800)
T he MARIANO craftmanship started to
develop in 1894 with the decoration of streets and squares for the patron saint
festivities. In the first periods oil lamps where employed hanging them on
wooden frames, to be replaced later on by carbide lamps. Electrical
light bulbs begun to be used in the early 1930s.
Starting from a piece of firwood, whith
master's art and much inspiration, the craftsmen toil until they are satisfied
with their endeavours to create embroideries and new designs,
but keeping in with a long artistic tradition.
As result open spaces are adorned with thousands of minute light bulbs creating
virtual threedimensional themes, from pagodas to
galleries to enchanted spaces, all embroidered out of light and colour.
Patron Saint festivity - Scorrano (LE) -
foto 1953
In the latest decades, the number of festivites have grown: at first the Christmas festivities were
considered appropriate occasions to be lit festively, especially when it means
to brighten the dark winter days and nights.
Then the requirements for "luminarie" grew
and expanded into other occasions such as inaugurations of important shops,
commercial centers, new streets or bridges,
anniversaries of important dignitaries, or to celebrarate
important birthdays, weddings historical events and other social occasions.
Today the MARIANO operates on international market while keeping its
characteristic of "artisanal" production
and exports, all over the world, the old art of italian "luminarie"
together with new production realizations.
More and more sophisticated materials are utilized all technically
correspondent to the present day stringent standards and regulations.
Such materials are produced in
Development
of a new project.
Today MARIANO identifies at first a subject or theme to be developted,
and his designers develop first sketches.
These are then submitted as a first proposal, which after acceptance by client, prompts a local survey by MARIANO, to adapt
and fit the proposed designs to the actual environment the work is to be
inserted.
After this survey a final project proposal is drawn, with a detail on contents
and specifications, for final approval, after which the MARIANO works
begin with the final creation and production.
MARIANO does not sell its masterpieces Instead MARIANO rents the
features for a given period of time, during which MARIANO installs the
features, maintains them during the contract period, and disassembles them at
the end.
Which ensures that a client's only responsability
is to supply structural hook-up permits for the site of erection and sufficent electrical power to feed MARIANO's
LUMINARIE.
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