24 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF ROMANIAN HERITAGE AND COMMUNITIES
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In August the project team continued practical tests in both Bucharest and Timișoara. Part of the experiments focused on repairs to an existing plaster of similar type, which, according to laboratory results, would be based on Parker cement – a type of cement that appeared in the early 19th century, obtained by burning at up to 950°-1000°C. The tests took place in Timișoara at the István Nemes Palace, designed by arch. Lipót Baumhorn in 1902. With the support of Prof. Dr. Johannes Weber from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the project team received two types of Parker cement for experimentation, one made in Poland, the other in Spain, used for the restoration of modernist buildings.
A second direction of research has been the cleaning of symphyte surfaces of dirt deposited over time or organic deposits (mosses and lichens grown over time). Mechanical cleaning (from knife or brush removal to dry or wet blasting) and chemical cleaning (by testing Remmers products) were observed.
Research is currently focused on understanding and analysing laboratory results in the context of practical observations and formulating initial conclusions and recommendations for the conservation of facade textures.
Thanks to our partners: Kerakoll, Remmers, Timis County Directorate for Culture
“Forgotten textures – historical plasterwork. Research and practical studies for repair and maintenance” Project in phase II carried out by Pro Patrimonio Foundation and supported by the Romanian Order of Architects from the Architecture Stamp Tax and PSC Group
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Teste practice la Palatul Dauerbach din Timișoara
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This year, Concerts on the Siret is dedicated to supporting work on the George Enescu House in Mihăileni. For donations – Casa George Enescu din Mihăileni, Botoșani – DONATE A xylophagous and biological attack on the wooden structure of the Enescu House in Mihăileni has forced the interruption of educational and concert activities. An emergency intervention site had to be opened here and cultural activities temporarily moved to other cultural sites of significance to the neighbouring communities |
Pro Patrimonio Foundation and Associația Maria have the honour to invite you to the 3rd edition of Concerts on the Siret River to enjoy good music in unique settings.
We propose four particularly interesting locations:
You will have the opportunity to see for yourself or in the explanatory drawings on display that an exciting activity to enhance the tangible and intangible heritage of local communities is taking place on both sides of the Siret, this generous river that enriches the cultural landscape of Moldova.
E-mail: propatrimonio.romania@gmail.com
George Enescu’s house in Mihăileni, Botoșani county, a historical monument owned by the Pro Patrimonio Foundation, was saved from collapse and went through a seven-year restoration process. As small as it is interesting, it represents a tangible witness of the way of life for an intellectual family of the 19th century. That is precisely why Enescu House can become a subject of experimental research with a specific purpose: what was the standard comfort of life in the countryside for families with intellectual potential and a desire for development?
It is the place where the composer spent periods of his childhood and adulthood, finalizing many of his masterpieces. It was the last place he visited before leaving the country for good in September 1946. The house belonged to George Enescu’s mother, Maria Cosmovici, and was built by her parents, most likely, in the middle of the 19th century. Currently, the house is returned to the local community in the form of a cultural and educational center. In 2020, the restoration works were completed, a moment also marked by the inauguration of one of the most ambitious projects of the Pro Patrimonio Foundation, the “Academy of Music and the Study of Sound”.
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Cum a fost la „Concerte pe Siret”
„Concerte pe Siret”. 140 de ani de la nașterea lui George Enescu
Concerte pe Siret, ediţia a II-a, 18-27 iulie 2022
Cum a fost la Concerte pe Siret, ediţia a II-a
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Tot în cadrul proiectului Circular Catalysts, pe 21 mai 2023 am organizat un program de “Ateliere de Explorări şi Imprimări Botanice” chiar în spaţiul alăturat expoziţiei Romanian Design Week de la Bucureşti, din Piaţa Amzei. Acestea au fost o continuare directă a experimentelor derulate în cadrul rezidenței de creație de la Vila Golescu, jud. Argeș.
40 de curioşi – copii mici, adolescenţi, sau tineri – au venit însufleţiţi de dorinţa de explorare și imprimare cu plante alături de designerii, făuritorii și prietenii proiectului de design și meșteșug, Honest Goods. Aceştia ţi-au antrenat mușchii cu tehnica de imprimare cu ciocanul pe suporturi textile și de hârtie şi au testat metoda block-printing cu plăcuțe de linoleum, culori textile și modele ingenios create chiar de participanți. Amuzamentul lor a fost contaminant. Toată lumea s-a bucurat să înveţe plante de sezon pictându-le.
“Atelierele de Explorări şi Imprimări Botanice” şi expoziţia Pro Patrimonio sunt rezultate ale rezidenței Circular Catalysts la Câmpulung Muscel, la care artista britanică Anoushka Cole a fost prezentă. Expoziţia şi atelierele sunt integrate într-o expoziție documentară bazată pe cunoștințele și temele generate, care prezintă fotografii, texte și obiecte reprezentative pentru puterea designului interdisciplinar și a dialogului. Expoziția face parte din cadrul Romanian Design Week 2023 (12-28 mai) și va fi itinerată în Timișoara (Capitala Culturală Europeană și în Marea Britanie (în parteneriat cu Institutul Cultural Român din Londra).
Alte evenimente din cadrul proiectului:
Circular Catalysts- reziliență și dezvoltare durabilă locală prin design și meșteșug
Rezidenţă Circular Catalysts la Vila Golescu
Jurnal de rezidenţă Circular Catalysts
Expoziţia Pro Patrimonio din cadrul Circular Catalysts. Romanian Design Week 2023
Curatorial text for the Pro Patrimonio exhibition within the Circular Catalysts programme, initiated by the British Council Romania and supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute, Romanian Design Week, 12-28 May 2023
Modeled after the first series of the Honest Goods design and craft collection in 2016, which was conceived as part of the Pro Patrimonio architecture brand, the current HG#3 collection of objects is rooted in the Circular Catalysts creative residency facilitated by the British Council Romania. It was hosted and inspired by the city of Câmpulung Muscel, Argeș county, its natural surroundings, but especially the exceptional architectural and landscape ensemble – Golescu Villa and Dendrological Park, 1910.
The HG#3 series from 2023 is the result of a structured design process, inspired by the local people and craftsmen, which was undertaken and realized with the help of the artist Anoushka Cole from the UK, the local guide and artist Elena Diță and two designers from Bucharest, Andreea Machidon and Ruxandra Sacaliș.
They explored the hills and gardens of the sub-mountainous area of the Iezer-Păpușa Mountains, harvesting and creatively transforming the fruits of the earth in its first period of rebirth. Shapes, colours and stories of place were subtly inserted as decorative patterns, working techniques and types of objects created. The support of the whole creative experiment was a family of textile elements made of natural materials dedicated to the ritual of dining and dressing. The newly created prototype objects continue the research and probing of the archives, memory and roles attributed by society during Maria Cantili Golescu’s life (1881-1962), the lady of the architectural-landscape ensemble in Câmpulung Muscel.
Here is a huge cotton tablecloth, decorated with plants and textiles printed by hammering, with linocut designs and tassels made of wool boiled in natural pigments, worked on collaboratively by adults (craftsmen, designers, other professions) and especially 25 children from the community of Câmpulung, in a workshop dedicated to cultural heritage education.
Next up is a contemporary fashionable shawl, modelled by the hands of a local craftswoman and inspired by the interests, archive and lifestyle led by Maria Cantili Golescu at Villa Golescu at the turn of the last century.
At the end, you can enjoy a collection of natural materials (wool) associated with delicate textiles (silk, linen, hemp, cotton), the support of all the experiments in the creative residency: a collection of small tablecloths and linen towels, an extension of the series of kitchen objects inspired by the way Maria Cantili Golescu lived in her domestic space.
The creative process began with an immersion in the specifics of the place. The team walked the hills of Lerești and the floors of the dendrological park pertaining to the Golescu Villa, collecting the seasonal plants and flowers that nature could offer in spring in a high area. It took a walk through the town of Câmpulung and opened the doors of museums, places of worship and historic houses. It gathered stories from the locals and visually memorized working techniques, materials and valuable elements specific to the area from the lady weaver, Marieia Plopeanu, and from one of the last wool artisans in the country, Emilian Catrinescu.
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All of the above were watched, documented and recorded by Mirela Duculescu, design historian, together with her friends and long-time colleagues, designers Andreea Machidon and Ruxandra Sacaliș.
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Bucharest: 12-28 May 2023 | Piața Amzei 13 – Romanian Design Week Creative Corner | Daily 10.00-20.00
12/05 Launch of RDW Talks Podcast with Annemarie O’Sullivan (Studio AMOS) and Cristiana Tăutu (Head of Arts, British Council Romania)
18/05 10.00-18.00 | Quiet Day – Accessible Guided Tours (Superheroes Among Us)
18.00-21.00 | Inclusion through ceramics workshop (AMAIS and Studio mud.)
19/05 Launch of RDW Talks Podcast with Anoushka Cole
21/05 Intergenerational workshops on textile printing with plants by Pro Patrimonio
22/05 Launch of RDW Talks Podcast with Lola Lely
26/05 Author Presentation – Francesca Sarti (Arabeschi di Latte)
Details about the entire Circular Catalysts programme facilitated by the British Council Romania here
Other events in the project:
Rezidenţă Circular Catalysts la Vila Golescu
Pro Patrimonio exhibition within Circular Catalysts. Romanian Design Week 2023
Circular Catalysts – Residency Journal
The adventure of materials and colours from nature starts with British designer Anoushka Cole. One can reach Câmpulung through the filter of wonderful local craftsmen.
For this project we chose to visit one of the most appreciated weaving craftswomen in the country, Mrs Mariea Plopeanu. We were greeted not only with a museum of items woven by Mrs Plopeanu and her mother, but also with carefully researched, traded, rescued and selected items from all over the Muscel basin, up to 200 years old. Local patterns and materials, gold and silver threads and various stories accompany each woven piece, along with a sincere love for this craft and, ultimately, lifestyle.
We were welcomed especially warmly and with surprising stories by one of the last wool artisans in the country. At Emilian Catrinescu, wool is washed, carded and spun into yarns dedicated to industry or various individual orders. Highly sought-after services, he can’t keep up with demand.
How could we better capture the local specificity of a city like Câmpulungul if not by a stroll around the city?
From the newly restored Negru Voda Monastery to the Town Hall we enjoyed an impressive architectural landscape and told the past, present and future scenarios for this town. We were greeted by abundant information at the Museum of Ethnography and sat the rest of the day around the Golescu Villa preparing for the experiments and workshops of the days to come.
Joining us for our debates, preparations and explorations was Mr. Andrew Glass from the British Council, whom we told all about our plans for this intense week.
We set out to be inspired by the local tangible and intangible cultural heritage, while using the surrounding nature as the main element in obtaining natural pigments, making blockprinting patterns and printing flower leaves and petals directly onto materials.
That’s why we dedicated most of the day to a foraging expedition in the hills of Lerești with our guide and local specialist Selena (Corina-Elena Diță). A connoisseur of edible plants, mushrooms and the stories that accompany the hills at the foot of the Păpușa Iezer mountains, Selena helped us to fill our “forage bags” with a great many seasonal plants, such as: crocus, violas, scarlet elf cup, strobilurus mushroom, wild strawberries, Easter flower, busculite, moss, dog’s tooth violet, hairy wood-rush, coltfoot, star of Bethlehem, cherry bark, dried ferns, cones or walnuts.
The rest of the day was eminently busy around the pots, since we chose to boil wool, flax, silk and cotton in a solution of nettle, spruce cone, fern, red onion, maple and cherry bark.
Magic day in the kitchen
We aimed to have a whole day dedicated to various plant and plant-inspired painting techniques.
Boiling natural materials in various herbal solutions – this was already started the day before and completed on ready-made textiles. Linen tableware was given the colour of spruce cone and nettle, and the silk shawl was taken to the light earthy colour of dried fern.
The hammer technique –it marked the final linen materials, in musical rhythms and with some force, with traces of: rose hips, greater celandine, dwarf periwinkle and forsythia picked directly from the dendrological park of the Golescu Villa. One of the experiments I even kept with the pressed, unpicked flowers and leaves as part of the creative process.
The roll-wrapping technique – used for the linen and silk all with plants from the home garden left to steep and soak for a long time: greater celandine, dwarf periwinkle, blackberry flowers and forsythia.
Block printing – inspired by the colours and shapes of nature we accessed the linocut technique to create repeating patterns on linen tablecloths and kitchen towels. Leaves, mushrooms and geese(!) remained printed on the textiles as traces of the places we explored.
Around 30 children and adults joined the Pro Patrimonio team on Saturday to close the project with a final community experiment.
With the plants and inspiration provided by the Golescu Villa garden, the children brought to life a giant 5m long tablecloth. They hammered, sewed, made wool cottons, attached plant materials and then decorated the whole thing at the end with their own stamp made in linoleum.
Music, snacks and merriment accompanied the whole; we ended the adventure with some outdoor soup and a wood fire animation.
The residency in Câmpulung Muscel is part of the Circular Catalysts project carried out by the British Council Romania, in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute. This is a programme designed to generate new collaborations between designers, artists and craftspeople from Romania and the UK and to facilitate fertile conversations around sustainable production practices and processes.
Other events in the project:
Rezidenţă Circular Catalysts la Vila Golescu
Pro Patrimonio exhibition within Circular Catalysts. Romanian Design Week 2023
Circular Catalysts – Residency Journal
01.03.2023
The Future Acceleration Program has entered its fourth year of collaboration and is the flagship intervention of the UiPath Foundation, carried out in Botoșani and Olt counties, with the support of Pro Patrimonio. Through this programme, 70 children from five communities in the proximity of Enescu House and Neamțu Manor benefit from an integrated support package – monthly scholarships, weekly classes in Romanian language and literature, mathematics and English, clothes, school supplies, books, games, food packages, digital equipment, camps – and participate in various activities to develop digital skills and non-formal education.
The Children’s Music Academy is a Pro Patrimonio Foundation Program, continuously run at the George Enescu House in Mihăileni, through which 28 secondary school children benefit from weekly music education lessons in the community. They are currently studying their second instrument, the xylophone, after starting with the flute. Through this programme, the children develop their creativity, artistic sensitivity, practical skills and instrument technique, meet musicians who come to the residencies, and are exposed to a wider culture.
The Heritage Caravan features a series of workshops on a variety of themes, aimed at education and direct learning, through experimentation and creativity, about architectural heritage, memory, local identity, relationships between people, buildings and cultural values. The current stops of the caravan are mainly the communities around the architectural monuments we are dealing with, but the system can be replicated so that more and more children gain a better understanding of where they live, local identity and universal connections, and gain a sustainable perspective in regarding heritage and how it can be exploited.
In the framework of the project “Forgotten Texts – Historical Plasterwork. Research and practical studies for repair and maintenance”, in order to carry out a study that will be relevant and useful at the national level, among architects and builders dealing with the repair, restoration and refurbishment of historic buildings, Pro Patrimonio expresses its intention and need to collaborate with three broad categories of organisations:
1 Pro Patrimonio reserves the right to choose from the wide range of deterioration only a few that will be investigated as most frequent and serious.
To facilitate the collection of this data please fill in this Google Form or send an email to propatrimonio.romania@gmail.com by 28 February 2023.
“Forgotten Texts – Historical Plasterwork. Research and practical studies for repair and maintenance” is a project carried out by Pro Patrimonio Foundation, supported by the Romanian Order of Architects through the Architecture Stamp Tax and PSC Group.
2023 Project
Historical plasterwork: Practical research. Stage II
2019 Project
Forgotten Textures: Inter-war Bucharest
SOS patrimoniul. Intervenții civice
Starting from the original manuscript turned digital „Recettes de Cuisine”, after it was transcribed, translated, explained and tested, we arrived at the form of a contemporary adapted editorial product called “Recipes”, Maria Cantili Golescu.
Maria Cantili Golescu’s culinary notebook contains 144 pages of “kitchen” recipes and household tips, to which she has added a final 8-page table of contents. On the first page, Maria began her notebook with the following words:
Recettes de Cuisine etc.
Paris, 21 January 1900
19 Avenue Bosquet
Marie, E. Cantilli
On the page before the title page, she wrote down her measuring units in the Anglo-Saxon system, translating them into metric approximations:
16 drame = 1 uncie
16 uncii = 1 livră
1 quart = 1 litru
1 pint = 1/2 litri
1 gill = 1/8 litri
1 uncie = 30 g
It is important to go through this material understanding that she did not write her notebook with the intention of ever publishing it – it was not intended to be an original cookbook, but a support in her own kitchen. As was the custom (carried on from previous generations and carried forward), each housewife gathered her more elaborate recipes for main courses, sauces, desserts, preserves, etc. from various sources: received from other housewives/cooks or copied from magazines and cookbooks, less accessible in those days.
By 1900, a limited number of gastronomic books had been published in Wallachia and Moldavia and not all households had access to them. In addition, as was the fashion across the continent, French cuisine had become the guiding light for anyone with gourmet pretensions. It was therefore desirable to have on hand a collection of French recipes suitable for any occasion.
When she started her diary, Maria had just turned 19. She had just received as gift from the Central Stationery Shop at 113 Rue St. Dominique (now a clothing store) a notebook with cloth-covered card covers and lined dictation-style sheets. The cover had been personalized with her initials – “MC” (we reproduced the monogram on the cover of our notebook). Over the next year, she meticulously jotted down her various recipes in French, English, German and (one) Romanian, filling every page to the last.
These dishes include a rich range of dishes, soups, drinks, desserts, doughs, ice creams, suitable to be served at different times of the day both at everyday meals and at the most festive for guests. Housekeeping tips (how to clean flannel, silverware, leather, lace, etc., how to prepare holiday decorations, and more) come in turn, interspersed among the food recipes. The approximate order is established at the end, when she reviews the course of the whole notebook, notes the page numbers and composes a table of contents referring to the pages where they can be found.
The recipes are often written with few explanations, as was the practice. It was assumed that the person reading them had sufficient knowledge in the art of cooking to intuit the steps required. Sometimes, for example, he omits to say “put it in the oven” – whoever cooked from this notebook would have understood by itself. The shortest of the recipes is dispatched in a few words: Pie dough. 250 g flour, 150 g butter, 30 g sugar, 1 whole egg, 1 yolk. No further explanation. Others, are described in detail: the pastry dough exceeds two pages.
We added explanations notes where I considered them necessary. These may regard ingredients that are less commonly used today, or historic ones that have been lost from consumption or trade. Also, where the method of preparation seems incomprehensible to the contemporary reader, we have provided explanations detailing the context: until the early part of the 20th century, sugar could come in the form of solid lumps/cups from which you would crush and mash as much as you needed; another example relates to the cooling methods of the time (in the cellar, with ice, with salt etc). Some recipes indicate the use of hearth-type ovens, others a primitive type of cooking machine, such as those with a griddle – but all the dishes described can be adapted with a little imagination to today’s technology.
22 dishes from the 1900s recreated by contemporary chefs and culinary authors
At the end of the notebook we have included a limited series of recipes photographed and explained at length, drawing on the creativity of several chefs and culinary authors who have leafed through Maria Cantili’s notebook from 1900-1901, selected a number of recipes from it and recreated them in the conditions of a contemporary kitchen. They have brought them up to date, following their personal inspiration and style. Below, you can follow the 22 dishes, starting with the original recipe at the top of each page, accompanied by detailed explanations of the ingredients and preparation process.
We would also like to thank all those involved in the production of this material, chefs and culinary authors: Andrei Chelaru, Oana Coantă, Cosmin Dragomir, Irina Georgescu, Cristina Mehedințeanu, Mara Elena Oană, Mădălina Roman, Alex Petricean, Horia Simon, Adriana Sohodoleanu and Adela Trofin; to the coordinator and editor Mona Petre who contributed two recipes, to the translators Nona Henți and Aura Pandele; Mirela Duculescu for editorial advice and the staff of the Golești Museum in Ștefănești (AG), represented by Cristina Boțoghină, for providing some unknown details about the life of Maria Cantili Golescu.
“Maria Cantili Golescu’s Culinary Diary-recipes, tastes, objects and experiments” is a cultural project of Pro Patrimonio Foundation co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration.
Media partners: Scena 9, Rock FM, Muscel TV, Revista Zeppelin. Friend project: “Ierburi uitate”
The digitised workbook, “Recettes de Cuisine”, can be found in the Foundation’s library of useful resources here
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Cum a fost la ziua festiva de la Vila Golescu?
Recipes / Maria Cantili Golescu. The expanded notebook.
RECIPES, OBJECTS AND EXPERIMENTS. A project inspired by Maria Cantili Golescu’s Culinary
Maria Cantili Golescu’s Culinary Diary – Recipes, Tastes, Objects and Experiments. Press Release.
The Clothes Stand with Maria Cantili Golescu’s Wardrobe and Other Stories
„Recettes de Cuisine”, caietul digitalizat
Girdle, historic cooking instrument
Ten Contemporary Experiments from Maria Cantili Golescu’s Culinary Recipe Book
Digitized Booklet “Recettes de Cusine”
Ansamblul Golescu. Observator de Peisaj Cultural în Câmpulung Muscel
We have gathered three seasons of research, trials and experiments in the fields of heritage education, object design and last but not least of culinary experience.
Maria Cantili Golescu’s culinary diary opens up a whole world of inspiration of bourgeois families in the 1900s, with spicy details of a lifestyle that naturally and playfully blends local and European influences, and invites biographical research into a female character from the Golescu family who has not had the chance to be much in the spotlight of historical stories.
Extras caiet Maria Cantili Golescu
So we want to share with the inhabitants of Câmpulung, with friends, collaborators and curious people from all over the world the sophisticated culinary discoveries in this notebook written in Romanian, English, French and German, to learn together how to clean hat feathers, how to waterproof the soles of shoes or how to make rice glue…like in 1900. We want to stroll through the ladies’ wardrobe of that period, follow the Golescu family’s genealogical thread, explore Mrs Cantili’s kitchen objects, taste the culinary experiments of the time and immerse ourselves musically and visually in the aristocratic atmosphere of 100 or so years ago.
How so?
Through an informal country party on October 1st in the courtyard of the Golescu Villa in Câmpulung Muscel!
The programme is packed with content but approachable:
11:00
– Those who have not yet tried our Berechet architectural tour of the city are invited from 11am to pick up their treasure hunt maps and quietly enjoy the beautiful city of Câmpulung
– This year we are also inaugurating a prototype of a culinary map of the city that we invite you to explore and even complete with suggestions and preferences.
14:00
– Opening event in the courtyard of the Golescu Villa: a short history of the project and a short guide to explore the site
14:00-18:00
– Fill the afternoon with music and vintage visual sequences, local snacks, exhibitions and launches of all kinds.
18:00-19:00 – Cantili recipe competition with prizes
We invite cooks and amateurs alike to try preparing a recipe from the book and enter it in a competition judged by the participants by tasting.
We invite you to choose from the extensive cookbook: https://www.propatrimonio.org/maria-cantili-golescu-retete-de-bucatarie/
We suggest sweet or savoury dishes that do not require heating and can be sliced or shared for the whole audience to taste.
19:00-20:00 – Movie night
Party preparations and suggestions:
“Maria Cantili Golescu’s Culinary Diary-recipes, tastes, objects and experiments” is a cultural project of Pro Patrimonio Foundation co-financed by AFCN.
Media partners: Scena 9, Rock FM, Muscel TV, Zeppelin Magazine; Friend project: Ierburi Uitate
The digitized booklet, “Recettes de Cuisine”, can be found in the Foundation’s library of useful resources here
The extended booklet here
Read more
Maria Cantili Golescu’s Culinary Diary – Recipes, Tastes, Objects and Experiments. Press Release.
Standerul de haine cu garderoba Mariei Cantili Golescu şi alte poveşti
„Recettes de Cuisine”, caietul digitalizat
Girdle, ustensilă istorică de gătit
Zece Experimente Contemporane din Jurnalul Culinar Maria Cantili Golescu
Ansamblul Golescu. Observator de Peisaj Cultural în Câmpulung Muscel
Ansamblul Golescu. Trasee botanice în Parcul Golescu
Honest Goods. Colecţia Golescu
Recettes de Cuisine, Maria Cantili Golescu
Coordinator: Mona Petre
Editorial consultancy: Mirela Duculescu
Project coordination „“Maria Cantili Golescu’s Culinary Diary-recipes, tastes, objects and experiments””: Andreea Machidon
Translation of the original recipes: Nona Henți, Aura Pandele, Mona Petre
Recipe texts recreated: Andrei Chelaru, Oana Coantă, Irina Georgescu, Cristina Mehedințeanu, Mara Elena Oană, Alex Petricean, Mădălina Roman, Horia Simon, Adriana Sohodoleanu, Adela Trofin
