2023-10-13 13:39:46
Il Ginori Museum it is still closed, but full of life and history, waiting to be told. In the meantime, his works can be admired thanks to the site, museoginori.org, just restored. Born in the mid-eighteenth century as a gallery of porcelain masterpieces produced by Shower Manufactory, was a company museum for almost three centuries. Designed by the founder, Marquis Carlo Ginori, as a treasure chest that preserves over time the beauty that his factory created.
A historical photo, dating back to the 1960s, of the new headquarters of the Ginori Museum
Guardian of the tradition of taste and collecting, the richness of its heritage makes it unique on an international level, and tells the artistic, social and economic history of the oldest porcelain manufacture still active in Italy. Its collection includes a vast and varied set of objects of historical and artistic interest: around 8,000 porcelain and majolica artefacts, sculptural models dating back to the 18th century, lithographic stones for printing decorations and metal plates, as well as an archive of documents paper and drawings, a historical library, a specialist library and a photo library. The collection includes serial products by important names in Italian industrial design, luxury objects but also everyday objects. Offering us an overview of the succession of artistic styles, customs and science, production techniques and entrepreneurship, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Porcelain Venus de’ Medici, circa 1747 (Ginori Museum)
Among the masterpieces present in the archive, wax sculptures and casts of works by the major Florentine masters of the eighteenth century: the Venere de’ Medicil’Grinder and theLove Psycheas well as the majolica for the Universal Expositions and the Art Deco ceramics of Gio Ponti, Richard-Ginori’s artistic director from 1923 to 1930.
A centenary for a hundred pieces: Richard-Ginori and Gio Ponti by Federica Malara Magliocchi 12 July 2023
Today the building that houses the museum is undergoing major renovation works, necessary after years of abandonment since 2013. In the meantime, it is the new website that opens its doors to us: «The museum», explains the president of the Ginori Museum Foundation, Tomaso Montanari «He is temporarily inaccessible to the public, but is ready to share knowledge.
Porcelain vase with poppies, Richard Ginori, circa 1902 (Ginori Museum)
Launching a site when the museum is closed is a challenge, but it is also an opportunity to bring to the fore what commonly remains hidden, that is, its being a center of research and cultural production and a community committed to developing a critical dialogue on the past, present and future”. The new portal, in fact, is programmed to promote another idea of a museum: open, inclusive and accessible to all, even through alternative methods, such as the magazine and the podcast. «The museum staff» announces Montanari «has just completed the digital inventory of over 10 thousand works and their transfer to a safe place. A special section of the site will also document the progress of the renovation works on the headquarters, which will finally begin this autumn.”
All the heart of ceramics. In a film by Federica Malara Magliocchi 18 May 2023
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