All collectors and professionals-experts who can present a bonsai of high quality can take part to the Crespi Bonsai Cup 2023. Everyone of them can exhibit just one tree and be present as individual participant or as a member of a club and/or association, school.
The Crespi Bonsai Cup 2023 prize consists of:
– a voucher for the amount of 5.000,00 € for purchases in the Crespi Bonsai shop; the Crespi Bonsai Cup; an article on the Italian magazine “Bonsai & news” will be dedicated to the winner and to his/her exhibited bonsai.
– Kaneko Memory Cup.
How to participate
– The participation in the Crespi Bonsai Cup competition is only at invitation and it will not be necessary to send a photo of your own trees for the selection.
– The invitation will be directly sent by the organizers to professionals-experts and collectors of high level, by post or by e-mail.
– The people invited have to entrust their bonsai to the exhibition place (Crespi Bonsai, Corso Sempione 35, 20015 Parabiago, Milan, Italy), from 9th to 14th September 2023, during the working hours (from 9.00 to 12.30 and from 2.30 to 7.00; Sunday: from 9.30 to 12.30; Monday: from 2.30 to 7.00).
– The bonsai will be displayed without any owner’s reference from 15th to 17th of September 2023.
– A jury consisting of international experts will select the most beautiful bonsai, whose owner receives as a prize a voucher for the amount of 5.000,00 € for purchases in the Crespi Bonsai shop, as well as the prestigious Crespi Bonsai Cup.
– A board of international experts will select the most beautiful bonsai also for naturalness and artistic quality, in order to award the Kaneko Memory Cup prize. Crespi Bonsai will make any effort to maintain the entrusted trees in healthy conditions.
– The participation in the exhibition is free of charge.
To receive the invitation
Are you a collector or professional and do you wish to be invited?
Send an e-mail to crespicup@crespibonsai.it
The winner of the 2019 edition of the Crespi Bonsai Cup, Paolo Riboli with a Pinus mugo.
