Ars Sutoria School | A tribute to professor Lunati


Adriano Lunati was born on 27th April 1924 at Castel San Pietro di Camino in Piedmont. He grew up in difficult years, hard, especially for mountain villages like his, where hunger was a crude reality with which people had to live. His shoemaker father decided to make him to study at the Salesian school, where he obtained a diploma learning the shoemaking trade. At the end of the Second World War he worked in one of the footwear factories in Casale as a cutter until, in ‘48, he met Giuseppe Muggiani, founder of the Ars Sutoria Editorial Group and School, and moved to Milan as a teacher. After that he trained generations and generations of pattern-makers (among which Pfister, Magli, Rossetti, Sara Navarro, Artioli, Lattuada, Banfi ) and for 53 years he designed and created a incalculable number of shoes. During his extremely long career he received many awards including a Knighthood in 1980, the Parma “Trincetto d’Oro” and the Solidarity at Work award in Vigevano in 1997.



Here are just some of the remembrances of professor Lunati that have appeared on his Facebook page since the news of his death:
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  • Lisa Cronin-Arida - Professor Lunati, you were one of the greatest Professors I have ever had! You taught me so much and your passion was infectious. You will be dearly, dearly missed. May God Bless you and keep you in his care. Please continue to inspire all of us shoe designers from heaven. I will never, ever forget you announcing in class that I would be a great shoe designer!!!!!!!
    Thank you for everything!
  • Ana Caroline Volk - Ciao mio caríssimo maestro!!! Va in pace, starai sempre en mio cuore.
  • Eustace Curt Robinson - To the Memory of the Greatest Shoe Stilista bar Non!!! Don’t make Moses shoes too tight.. and Jesus likes his simple not too flashy.. You will always be in My Heart and I always look at the Drawing you gave me as your student.... Words can not say, what’s truly on my heart. But I am smiling because like your many many many other students... You gave US a PART of yourself... You will always LIVE in US... God Bless.... Ciao El Primo until we meet again and Talk Scarpe
  • Marco Rizzo - Ci ha lasciato un grand’uomo, grande perché è riuscito a dare un gran sostegno nella calzatura e trasmettilo a molti di noi. Rimarrà nel mio cuore come esempio di persona da seguire come si dice dei grandi maestri e lui lo è stato. Grazie maestro e buon riposo
  • Henry Wu - Dear Mr.Lunati. I’m Henry I was a student of Ars Sutoria, even though that I have never met u before but I been heard a lot about u from Robi and Richard. Dear God, please lead Mr.Lunati to heaven and joy without pain and sadness
  • Giuseppe Luongo - Sono molto dispiaciuto della triste notizia mi unisco al dolore della famiglia per la perdita dell’ineguagliabile Maestro, fortunato di essere stato uno dei suoi ultimi allievi. Maestro sarà sempre vivo nei miei ricordi grazie per i suoi incoraggiamenti e le lezioni di vita!!!