Flash Courses 2020 at LAO

Admission requirements:
Knowledge of Italian or English language.
Groups of students from the same country can ask to arrange lessons in their mother tongue: the school will provide an interpreter at the expense of the group.
The Flash courses can also be activated on requests by small groups for specific programs.

Materials and tools
The school provides (included in fee) all the useful big tool for collective use. School also provide nonprecious metal, silver soldering, semi-finished products.
Pure silver and 925 silver in sheet and wire, are available but are not included in the participant’s fee. At the end of the workshop, the students will reimburse the cost of the used metal to the school.
Students for practical courses and workshops should bring their own tools (tongs, files, bow and blade, sandpaper, welding clamps, all instruments for design, and anything else considered useful).
To have a detailed list of tools needed for the courses you are enrolled, please contact the school office.
In town, there are shops where you can buy tools and metals needed for the course.
The school can provide a toolkit for people who cannot bring their own tools.
A security deposit of 200 Euros will be paid by the arrival and will be refunded at the end of the seminar, after the return of the full kit.
Damaged or broken tools will be reimbursed to the school.
 

Programme

1 Jewellery Design

1.1
Topic: Jewellery design with watercolor and colored pencil 1.
Content: Rendering of flat, curved, rounded and irregular metallic surfaces
Teacher: Sofia Garuti.
Reference for application: RE.1.
Date: 21 - 24 September 2020.
Duration: 24 hours, 4 days.
Cost: € 400
Deadline: 31 August 2020.
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1.2
Topic: Jewellery design with watercolor and colored pencil 2.
Content: Rendering of faceted stones.
Teacher: Sofia Garuti.
Reference for application: RE.2.
Date: 28 - 30 September 2020.
Duration: 15 hours, 3 days.
Cost: € 300
Deadline: 31 August 2020.
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2 Stone Setting

2.1
Content: Prong Setting (Solitaire or trilogy).
Teacher: Francesco Pinzauti.
Reference for application: INPR1.F.
Dates: 21 to 22 September 2020.
Duration: 12 hours, 2 days.
Cost: € 280
Deadline: 31 August 2020.
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2.2
Content: a basic course for different shapes bezel Setting.
Teacher: Francesco Pinzauti.
Reference for application: INBS.F.
Dates: 23 to 24 September 2020.
Duration: 12 hours, 2 days.
Cost: € 280
Deadline: 31 August 2020.
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2.3
Content: Flush setting.
Teacher: Francesco Pinzauti.
Reference for application: INSG.F.
Dates: 25 to 26 September 2020.
Duration: 12 hours, 2 days.
Cost: € 280
Deadline: 31 August 2020.
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2.4
Content: Fishtail.
Teacher: Francesco Pinzauti.
Reference for application: INSGR.F​.
Dates: 28 to 29 September 2020.
Duration: 12 hours, 2 days.
Cost: € 280
Deadline: 31 August 2020.
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