A true 20 th century Renaissance man. Antonio Ratti (1915-2002) was not just the founder of Como’s celebrated Silk Mill (Tessitura Serica Antonio Ratti), which would market and sell high quality fabrics for ties and scarves in the post-war years, but also the visionary patron of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a center of conservation, restoration and cataloguing of MET’s collection of textiles.   As he wove together #business