Why COART Ensemble?

The Art of Enjoying Life Together

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Welcome to

COART ENSEMBLE

– Creative Café and Garden –

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The COART cafe has the joy of inviting you to discover the artist in each of us, to enjoy gastronomy and to enjoy together with the infusion of nature and culture of the space of the Mihail Vlădescu Garden and Villa. This space honors us enormously with every new secret we learn about the architectural project or the life story of the host. Mihail Vlădescu was one of the most important personalities of Câmpulungului, a prestigious researcher, teacher, minister, man of culture, who, like many other hidden treasures of Romania's heritage, was forgotten both in the place where he was born and and at the national level. The COART ensemble lays the foundations of a cultural center dedicated to the research and cultural, scientific and artistic reactivation of the personalities of Muscel, past and future, inviting in this endeavor all those inspired by the very active life of Mihail Vlădescu.

During the research of the digital archives, which lasted more than 5 years, we tried to explore the personal and genealogical universe of the host of the villa and garden, whose previous functions did not take into account their heritage value and which now deserve attention public, together with the story of Mihail Vlădescu's life. During this long-term project, we will try to re-tie the thread of a fascinating destiny. We would be extremely happy if other expedition colleagues, perhaps better informed, but just as eager as we are to share the saga of this little-known branch, will embark on this journey to discover the story of such a diverse character of the historical Vlădescu family.

The steps initiated by the COART Ensemble team represent an effort to restore and recover the cultural heritage, memory and what remains renewable and revitalizable from the work of Mihail Vlădescu and other local personalities, so that they can be preserved and carried forward by the community from Campulung Muscel and Romania.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Strada Republicii was called Mihail C. Vlădescu Street in honor of the one who had been the Minister of Education and Cults, in today's language representing the Ministry of Education, Culture and Cults. This lesser-known son of Câmpulung Muscel was thus part of the people who built the education and culture of modern Romania, characters and stories often forgotten or much too discreet in the local and national memory of the 21st century.

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Why Câmpulung Muscel?

Câmpulung Muscel is a mountain town, small but full of history, and we believe that, with its great past, it will also have a great future. This future depends only on us, the friends of Câmpulungului, residents or just in love with its qualities, amazed and delighted by every valuable element that still survives and enriches the natural and cultural heritage of Muscel and of Romania. This natural and cultural heritage, more simply called CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, was created by People. The people who were born, lived or created memorable works in Muscel are the artisans of everything that remains, is and will be good and valuable in this space. Although it does not seem to be an extremely well-known city at the national level, many of the people of Câmpulungu and Muscelu have literally made history and left behind valuable works: Pârvu Mutu Zugravul, Theodor Aman, George D. Mirea, Dimitrie Mirea, Ion D Negulici, Nicolae Grant, Ileana Ceaușu Pandele, Dumitru Mățăuanu, Stone Craftsmen and Builders with Italian origins whose names are grafted into many of Muscelu's heritage buildings, Constantin Baraschi, Olga Greceanu, Dinicu Golescu, C. D. Aricescu, Mihail Tican - Rumano . Gheorghe Pârnuță, Dimitrie Baciu, Alexandru Mușatescu, Constantin Gogu, Sarmiza Bilcescu-Alimăneșteanu, Alexandru Cercel, Nae Leonard, D. Ionescu Berechet, Alexandru Săvulescu, Vasile Caramelea, Ioan Gri Gorescu, Nicolae Th. Ștefănescu, Ion Timuș, etc

Numerous personalities have been active in the field of exact sciences or humanities, but many even of them, together with most of the reference names in the life of Câmpulungului, have been active in the field of Art. The art of working together, collaborating, collaborating, the art of co-creating of these Muscel artisans generated and regenerated all that is good and valuable in the concentric space of the Field. That's why the name of this initiative: COART - Câmpulung City of Arts, of the arts of peace, creativity and joy together!

Who was

MIHAIL C. VLĂDESCU ?

23rd of April 1865, Câmpulung Muscel – 1944

"He was born […] from parents descended from an old noble family from Muntenia, as evidenced by numerous documents that he possesses since the time of Vladislav, the predecessor of Vlad Țepeș. He did his high school studies in Bucharest and, after studying mathematics, physics and natural sciences for three years at the University of Bucharest, he left in 1884 for Würtzburg, in Germany, where he studied especially botany with the illustrious professor Iulius Sachs. Towards the end of 1885 he went to Paris, where he attended the courses of the faculty of science, which he finished in 1888, when he returned to the country. In the autumn of the same year, following a brilliant competition, he was appointed professor of botany at the University of Iași, as the successor of Anastase Fătu. Founding member of the literary and scientific society in Iasi, in whose organ, "Archive", some of his studies were published. In 1891, he received the task of inspector of secondary education during the ministry of Mr. Take Ionescu. In the fall of 1895, he was transferred as a professor to Bucharest and appointed director of the Botanical Institute, as the successor of Professor Dim. Cheese". He was a member of Parliament several times.

He was also a prose writer and dramatist, author of school textbooks on botany and zoology.

G. D. Nicolescu, The Romanian Parliament, 1866-1901, Biographies and portraits, Socec, Bucharest, 1903

Photo source: G.D. Nicolescu, The Romanian Parliament, 1866-1901, Biographies and portraits, Socec, Bucharest, 1903 (book from the heritage of the National History Museum of Romania)

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The Cafe where you can find out

what is of great value in the discrete town of

Câmpulung Muscel

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Vernacular Architecture

Nature

Culture

Art

History

Heritage

Crafts

Wellness

and, last but not least,

Gastronomy

King Carol I frequently visited Câmpulung Muscelul, after first reticent reactions, being warmly received by the community and city officials, to whom he would not be late to offer them a priceless gift, the first Pedagogical College in Romania, a nursery of some brilliant teachers and students, who have contributed to the development of local and national education, and especially to the creation of an outstanding cultural, artistic and scientific heritage, which generated countless reasons for local pride :