Since the 1950s, Ferrero1947 has searched all over the world, in addition to furnishings and lamps, also iconic fabrics, designed by the most interesting designers of the moment and made by the best Italian and international manufacturers. This interest has always been very lively and has led Ferrero1947 to purchase, where possible, inventories, archives, stock funds, end of series … of some of the best known textile companies, many unfortunately no longer active, before they ceased to exist. ‘activities.
Over the years, this small heritage has become increasingly large, coming to include precious examples of fabrics that are no longer produced, which are made available to customers for specific and particularly valuable projects. Among the fabrics available in the Fabrics Archive section there are some collections born from the intense collaboration and friendship between Gio Ponti and Luigi Grampa through the Jsa Manufacture of Busto Arsizio: a production of refined and exclusive fabrics with typical Mediterranean colors, hand-printed on velvets, linens and cottons. Among the best known “Summer” (born to cover the Mariposa armchair), “The Mediterranean Law”, “Poetry of the Sea”, “Fence”, “Olympia,” Relief “,” Crystals “,” The Circus “,” Meridiana “,” Rhombuses “. Some of these fabrics, in limited quantities, can be purchased, on request, to make coverings, curtains, blankets …
The Ferrero1947 fabric archive also includes a small amount of original fabrics from the Viennese Secession, rich brocades and precious silks, designed by Joseph Hoffmann and made in the early 1900s. Among these the most iconic and representative models, available on request for special projects, are: Paradies, Aristide, Leone, Streber Belge and Zick Zack.
The exhibition is completed by a selection of natural fabrics, in particular linen, wool and light silks, in white and natural colors, made by the historic Avigdor textile factory in Turin in the 1950s and 1960s; a collection of colored chenille 70s, smooth and ribbed, from Como manufactures and a wide range of cotton fabrics decorated in the 60s and 70s with bright colors with geometric or botanical themes, designed by Emilio Pucci and Ken Scott or with a graphic theme in black and white or white and brown designed by Pino Tovaglia.
