Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
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Piazza Santa Trinita, Via de' Tornabuoni, 50123 Firenze, Italia
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http://www.museoferragamo.com
This private museum, founded in 1995, is dedicated to Salvatore Ferragamo’s activity and the brand’s continuing creativity down through our times. It is home to a large and unique collection comprising a surprising 10,000 models of footwear that attest to the great creative flair of the company’s founder, who was in perfect touch with the artistic stimuli of his world, and to his extraordinary capacity to reuse materials, including simple and sometimes “poor” materials, the only materials, in fact, available during some of the trying moments in history that he lived through in the course of his career, for example the autarchic Thirties. With a two-year exhibit rotation frequency and according to thematic criteria, the museum exhibits some of Ferragamo’s masterpieces that are still astounding as to the modernity of their design and their use of color and raw materials. There are the wedge sandals built of cork or wood, carved and painted by hand or even covered in mirrorglass, satin, or embossed brass grates studded with strass, or the “invisible sandal” from 1947, with a vamp of transparent nylon thread, that won him the fashion Oscar for that year, or, finally, the elegant series of 1950s low-cut pumps, one of which, in brown crocodile, was designed especially for Marilyn Monroe.
The Archives preserve hundreds of wooden lasts for made-tomeasure footwear for representatives of the international diplomatic corps, members of the royal houses, and above all the stars of Italian and Hollywood cinema. The Museum is also home to a small collection of period footwear from the 18th and 19th centuries, a selection of items of clothing from the late 1950s onward, and a collection of bags produced since 1970, all accompanied by copious paperbased documentation, from press releases to a remarkable collection of patents. For ten years now, the museum premises have hosted theme exhibitions or retrospective exhibits on aspects of history, personalities, creativity, or technique linked to the Ferragamo griffe. mail: museoferragamo@ferragamo.com
museums
Piazza Santa Trinita, Via de' Tornabuoni, 50123 Firenze, Italia
Show on map
http://www.museoferragamo.com
This private museum, founded in 1995, is dedicated to Salvatore Ferragamo’s activity and the brand’s continuing creativity down through our times. It is home to a large and unique collection comprising a surprising 10,000 models of footwear that attest to the great creative flair of the company’s founder, who was in perfect touch with the artistic stimuli of his world, and to his extraordinary capacity to reuse materials, including simple and sometimes “poor” materials, the only materials, in fact, available during some of the trying moments in history that he lived through in the course of his career, for example the autarchic Thirties. With a two-year exhibit rotation frequency and according to thematic criteria, the museum exhibits some of Ferragamo’s masterpieces that are still astounding as to the modernity of their design and their use of color and raw materials. There are the wedge sandals built of cork or wood, carved and painted by hand or even covered in mirrorglass, satin, or embossed brass grates studded with strass, or the “invisible sandal” from 1947, with a vamp of transparent nylon thread, that won him the fashion Oscar for that year, or, finally, the elegant series of 1950s low-cut pumps, one of which, in brown crocodile, was designed especially for Marilyn Monroe.
The Archives preserve hundreds of wooden lasts for made-tomeasure footwear for representatives of the international diplomatic corps, members of the royal houses, and above all the stars of Italian and Hollywood cinema. The Museum is also home to a small collection of period footwear from the 18th and 19th centuries, a selection of items of clothing from the late 1950s onward, and a collection of bags produced since 1970, all accompanied by copious paperbased documentation, from press releases to a remarkable collection of patents. For ten years now, the museum premises have hosted theme exhibitions or retrospective exhibits on aspects of history, personalities, creativity, or technique linked to the Ferragamo griffe. mail: museoferragamo@ferragamo.com