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Teatro San Carlo

Naples

The curtain was realized with vertical fullness 20% with FTA - Tancredi 500 velvet, special red color and lined with HSV - Trevi satin.
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The curtain can work as a Fly curtain ...
... as a Traveller curtain and as a Swag curtain.
The historical curtain, painted in 1854 by Giuseppe Mancinelli, represents a symbolic Parnassus that reunites, together with Dante Alighieri, some among the greatest Greek and Latin poets, among which Humerus and Virgil.
The valance, realized with flat making, is decorated at its top by five draperies realized with concentric fullness.
Detail of the NDA - Decorative appliqué of the valance.
Detail of the NDA - Decorative appliqué with NFR - Fringes and NFI - Tassels realized custom.
The curtain with NDA - Decorative appliqué during its realization.
The Teatro San Carlo is a theatre ''all'italiana'' with a horseshoe-shaped hall, with five tiers of boxex and a gallery, 2.260 seats.
1737
inauguration
1816
restructuring after the partial destruction caused by a fire
1989
restoration
2001
remaking of the curtain
Design
Mauro Carosi

Materials used in this production

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

Fly curtains

Typology of curtain

FTA - Tancredi 500

Velvets

HST - Satin Trevira

Silks and satins

NDA - Decorative appliqués for fabrics

Trimmings

Vertical fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

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