It’s the two of us (Emanuela and Maurizio) We work with medieval methods yet, our goal is simplicity in the work and the forms, we always and only use: anvil and hammer, tongs, pliers, files and lots of elbow grease and good will!
The metals we work with are mainly copper, silver, brass and sometimes bronze to make jewellery: necklaces, rings, bracelets, anklets… and then thanks to the experience of the Urania Laboratories we continue to develop the line of therapeutic products: the latest addition is an excellent heating plaster against muscular tension, in copper, virgin wax and hemp oil… For help just write to us and we will we will help you find what you are looking for: – info@urania-europa.com –
Who did it ? Maurizio Peruzzi has always been a craftsman Son in 1956) – and immediately orphaned (in 1958) – of a man of whom they said “he had golden hands”. Hands that were his only héritage. His family was one of those who emigrated with the flood of the Polesine area in ’51…. I started using my hands immediately, before I was ten. All the little jobs around the house were mine. a true passion in which my guide was my mother who taught me – first and foremost – saving, thrift, recovery: everything is good, nothing is thrown away, what will later be called “recycling”. Then already at sixteen during the period of the technical institute in Milan (at Molinari High School) I’m in the shop of a southerner, under my house: but he’s a wonderful southerner! A Neapolitan architect who welcomes me, “takes” me like a son/student (because I knew how to tie knots and therefore, according to him, I was efficient and tidy – and of course I was much better organized than him!). His name was Salvatore Esposito, alias Nazareno Noja. His shop was “MalaModa”, I wonder if anyone still remembers it?). He taught me more with his hands than anyone else until … the children have to “kill the father” (Oedipus) I went to set up shop on my own, in Via Bergamo in Milan. I worked for sixteen years: leather, paper, canvas, wood and everything that happened (iron, silver, nylon, rubber…). Then he got me hooked on copper and now it’s been twenty years and more. Many events in life have distracted me, moved me from the “economic” tracks, if not overwhelmed (not all donuts succeed with the hole!) and now I express, I’ll try!, all my experience and skill in the things I do.
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Urania: craftsmanship for metal therapy
The Urania brand was born in 1930 on the initiative of the Ita Wegman Klinick of Arlesheim (Basel) and the Vereinigung fuer Metalltherapie for the “external use” of metals in therapy. Laboratori Urania Italia snc is a company founded in 1991 to encourage the development of natural therapy with metals.
- It deals in particular with the application of metals “from outside” the body through sanitary articles such as insoles, elastic belts, knee pads, etc. as supports to favor the specific radiating action of light and heat of each of the planetary metals.
- In the same 1991, Laboratori Urania Italia purchased the right to use the Urania brand in Italy from the Vereinigung fuer Metalltherapie, an association that dates back to the era of Rudolf Steiner and the very first anthroposophical clinic (the “Ita Wegman Klinick” in Arlesheim – Basel).
Ora et labora is the motto of the Benedictines
work, study, make art – in my case: sing! it’s mine motto, always.
Trafficking, building, creating, creating everything and more with your hands and, in the meantime, studying (especially chemistry, biology and agriculture), investigating, researching, understanding (or rather believing you have understood but then…,) , review, look at, reconsider, change my mind.
And in the meantime sing: learn first, teach then, always enjoy it.
And so, day after day, year after year something comes up. First a beautiful shop for leather, silver and copper jewellery, bags and accessories made of precious fabrics but that’s not enough for me, I need more: studying, understanding!
The moment arrives and the laboratory you have always dreamed of is created almost from nothing…crystallizations, dynamolysis, chromatographies, wonderful images and experiments to study life in its actions, in its nascent state, a unique, unrepeatable opportunity to learn, teach, “actively” love nature and science and discover that science is not just thought, but also application and technology, the possibility of transferring it directly to everyday life intuitions and discoveries.
- What better field of action than health and therapy ?
Hence my decision to study applications to the human body of metals with the “Urania” brand
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