incorporates our history in a creative way: it has the memory and imagination of the dummy on the cover, which embodies a number of Brovedani components in ancient wood and is reminiscent of the early plates of machines from the first Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert. The future builds on our earliest knowledge, our experiences and our desire to amaze. In this spirit, we at Brovedani cultivate man’s oldest trade: mechanics, which originates from the dawn of time, from the first flints fabricated by our forefathers. Yesterday, today, tomorrow, there always has been, is and always will be mechanics. It is an extension of nature, a substratum of work and transformed matter that pervades all human artefacts and activities, including intangible ones. This is why we at Brovedani believe in the inexhaustible vitality of mechanics. This is why we persevere in nurturing an industrial project that still flourishes today, projecting our passion along the evolutionary trajectories that have brought us thus far, without ceasing to ask ourselves what we will be and what we should become in order to continue being.

In the 2023 Calendar, leaving aside clichés, we imagine the mechanics to come, indeed the mechanics we will be, in an attempt to seize the opportunities, contradictions and complexities of an epochal transformation that is taking place, with humanity suspended between the mind-blowing potential offered by digital instruments and a titanic challenge to sustain life on Earth. We will take this journey into a universe scattered with more questions than answers, through futuristic hypotheses accompanied by photographic metaphors “assembled” with pieces of our history. It will be an evocative story that aspires to capture the artistic side of mechanics: we want people to touch worlds that are only apparently distant, as the Greeks knew only too well when they coined art with the word “tékne”. Technics, art, mechanics: things-well-done, to give man future, beauty and happiness.