Artisan Archives - Ferrero1947

Giovanni Bonacina started his business in 1889 in Lurago D’Erba, located in a hilly, fertile part of the area north of Milan known as Brianza, combining two traditional crafts practiced in the area, basketry and furniture making, using the local materials reed and cane, while rattan from Southeast Asia.

His hard work and experience produced excellent results, and his efforts were rewarded with awards in international expositions and numerous important commissions. His son Vittorio carried on and built upon what his father had passed down, taking the company yet another step forward, with an eye on the revolution in design and art that was taking place in the 1950’s, and a new era in the company’s future design, made possible by the winning combination of production experience, the visionary collaboration with talented designers, and a shared willingness to push the materials and shapes into new expressive forms.

Vittorio Bonacina and Co. distinguished itself again and again. Meanwhile Mario Bonacina, Vittorio’s son, was maturing as a designer and as an inspired heir to the family company’s name. With an assurance based on two generations of success he was uniquely placed to take the company towards the future by re-proposing selected historic pieces in updated ways and by continuing to work with important designers in innovative ways.

In step with the times, he emphasized the ecological sustainability of the materials used while carrying on the highly creative and refined work for which the company is known. Vittorio’s and Mario’s wives brought their skills, style and grace to the mix and established their invaluable place in the thriving company.

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Mauro Mori was born in Cremona in 1965 and since his youth he travels a lot and expresses the perceptions of his travels through his innate manual creativity; his opportunity to meet people and cultures, different languages ??and unusual places provide the ideas on which his research is based and express themselves in his personalized functional and figurative forms.
The shapes are simple and elementary like the mold of the hand that creates them; the materials create his unique works by amplifying the natural heritage and enhancing what Nature has created. Precisely for these reasons, Mauro Mori’s works are modeled directly by the hands and not by the machines, therefore they bring emotional and emotional values, which become the added value and the fulcrum of the work itself.
Solid blocks of natural material, often worked in their places of origin, such as the Albizia Rosa marine wood of the Seychelles, natural or ebonized, or the Italian marble, handpicked and worked directly in Carrara, are the origins of the unique handmade forms . The plasticity of the materials, the reliefs on them and the desired and evident craftsmanship constitute the common thread that runs through all the designer’s work and reveals the desired shape through a process of subtraction. His work develops through the reading of symbols and symbolisms, sometimes drawn from everyday life and sometimes sought after in specific historical periods and geographical contexts and then translated into a contemporary and personal language. Research changes, transforming and maturing continuously: it alternates between induction and deduction, belongs to today and adapts to the daily life that surrounds everything and is constantly updated.
Mauro Mori’s works identify a luxury not ostentatious, but hidden in the material, without the need to adopt decorative or complex forms; a luxury that is celebrated in the preciousness of the natural material and the potential that, through the craftsmanship, are expressed in the best way.
The constant research and development is also demonstrated by the work on metals, which are worked in the form of slabs and finished with oxidations and patinas: iron, steel and copper, often rough and never polished are among the preferred metals, with which they are made specimens unique, like all the designer’s works.
In 1994 Mauro Mori starts his own business and in 1998 officially opens his atelier, Mauro Mori Studio. In 2004 Ferrero1947 dedicated a retrospective to him in his gallery in Turin, with unique pieces in pink Albizia, ebonized pink Albizia, steel and copper.

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