Artists or designers are always behind the creation of one or more source of inspiration? Can easily identify a source, or a series of flashes at a different time and space of creativity, beyond our understanding as mixed as a cocktail? How it is integrated into the creation of which the? To answer this series of questions, in Florence, Italy, Salvatore Ferragamo is currently being held at the Museum “and the ideal inspiration for” exhibition to find the answer.
Florence famous Ferroni • Si Pini mansion (Palazzo Spini Feroni) within the museum (since 1938 to become Ferragamo headquarters) was re-decorated, two rooms for the display at the entrance to the founder Salvatore Ferragmao President’s life and works, the room surrounded by showcasing its most innovative shoes and the most representative of the shoes. The rest of the room by the brand museum exhibit planning arrangements, novel and unique, and all have a common characteristic: self-Salvatore Ferragamo shoes in the history of its famous inspiration.
The Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, the exhibition is by far the largest ever held in the exhibition. Remove outside the museum’s permanent collection (on display 102 kinds of different shoes, and historical documents, photographs and national celebrities for the brand of the shoe last making), the exhibition will feature 255 exhibits, including self-1920s to section 50 of the 99 late Salvatore Ferragamo shoes, as well as from Italy, Florence and the world public and private collections of 156 works of art.
Salvatore Ferragamo exhibition around twice in a lifetime encounter over burst of inspiration and fantasy of the perfect state, including 20 1910s traveled the United States and twenty years in California and resolutely returned to Italy to settle in Italy at the time of art and cultural center of Florence experience.
Salvatore Ferragmo early Hollywood film industry in the ascendant when the time comes, this experience not only to bring the young Italian “star shoemaker” reputation and great success, also gives him make celebrities, continuous learning and opportunities to enhance skills . In 1922, Egypt discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun (Pharaoh Tutankhamen), this event is not only a great impact on his own, and stir the whole fashion industry, the film industry also provides a great creative space. Mr. Ferragamo soon draw inspiration from, on the grounds of a soft spot for the famous oriental culture • B • silent director Cecil DeMille (Cecil B. De Mille), directed the “Ten Commandments” (The Ten Commandments) starring Design sandals and jewelry. A few years later, Ferragamo President again met a similar situation, the mystery of Pompeii Jingxian Villa (Villa dei Misteri) Art and overnight become a source of inspiration for contemporary painting, the classical world is also reflected in the design of the Pompeian Salvatore and Coturno sandals, the sandals, shoes, such as the Roman general in the Department of buckle ankle, which became his first choice for advertising shoes.
California and local cultures are constantly providing inspiration for the Mr. Ferragamo, including American Indian clothing and decorative accessories, Quaker (Quaker) printed quilt quilting fabrics and colors on the integration of diverse South American handmade crafts, select the color of these crafts The most gorgeous feathers and other materials. Salvatore Ferragamo these elements in works that accentuates the times and become the brand’s signature style, in a few years later, re-create the glorious glow again.
In 1927, the plant need to be able to hand the professional shoe shoemaker, he decided to return to Italy and settled in Florence, and the desire from local craft and art and culture for inspiration. Mr. Ferragamo in Florence not only the most famous historical sites that are deeply shocked, but also by public and private collections of fine and practical art collection impressed. For example, the taste and elegant style of Mr. Frederick Stibbert diverse collection of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes offers numerous styling inspiration, woven uppers with embroidery design collection is the faithful reflection of family clothing. Archaeological, Folklore Museum, the Natural History Museum for Salvatore Ferragamo offers endless source of inspiration to stimulate their creativity, intuition and creative experiments in the past, now are all true.
Mr. Ferragamo is not only interested in the history of traditional and more fascinated by the 1920s avant-garde artists in the material and color of the attempt, one of his greatest impact, that is futuristic, but also including Ta Yate (Thayaht), Sonia • Delaunay (Sonia Delaunay), Marcel • Duchamp (Marcel Duchamp), and • Gio Ponti (Gio Ponti), at a time when Florence was an important cultural center.
Mr. Ferragamo In his autobiography, “Dreams shoemaker” wrote: “If you ask me how to interpret the design inspiration? My answer is, not to think hard to find style, need it, as long as my mind flashed from the screen can be selected , as from the table full of fruit dish so simple to pick apples. “This is just a few words seems to deny the existence of any source of inspiration, ideas and anything other than their own external factors. However, other chapters in the autobiography, in order to explain their thinking process, a more clear way he describes his memories and style transformation, reproduced on the 1920s and 1930s Florentine aristocratic circle of sanity in some cultures theory, like Luca • ska Lini (Luca Scarlini) and Sergio • Renesas management Ti (Sergio Risaliti) mentioned in the exhibition catalog, but it also shows just describe in words the difficulties of creative ideas . So, in reality, creativity can not be defined. Perhaps creativity can only be found, as invited to participate in the exhibition Si Daifen • Jones (Stephen Jones) hat design, this elegant and eccentric English gentleman to millinery carved into beautiful works of art, to dazzling ecstatic with the complicated details of the show of contemporary creativity. Although as a fashion historian, Jones has long been familiar with the characteristics of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes and value, but he was in person at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, from close contact with these works. Inspired by Ferragamo Creation series, Jones selected thirty hat made debut in Florence, from the selection process, Mr. Ferragamo’s style and work may be the central theme: color, shape footwear structure, ideas, materials, Salvatore Ferragamo shoes wearing the charming art of customers and a symbol of inspiration for Salvatore Ferragamo’s futuristic.
Although they are engaged in different areas of accessories, and use completely different technology, but Ferragamo superb superb craftsmanship can also found in Jones’s work. They all love their work, dedication to the demanding requirements for quality, try for a variety of materials – from the most banal to the most extraordinary excellence of form, and have a good sense of humor – to avoid giving too serious impression. 1930s, the horns placed Ferragamo shoes toe, high-quality Tuscan wine cork again in his most elegant arrangements and a customer’s feet, there is no attempt to hide. Fifty years later, Ms. Jones put the lion claw head, painted the color palette is the same as with the nature and style. Si Daifen • Jones said: “This exhibition is the work I have to learn a window Salvatore Ferragamo, I most appreciate his spirit of entertainment, humor and passion. Just like me, Ferragamo to life the energy into the shoes of. “