History of Ceramics in Tuscany

The Manifattura Ginori

The Manifattura Ginori, founded around 1737, is one of the oldest European porcelain factories. It has come through almost three centuries of history, constantly adjusting its production and productive systems to the radical changes which have affected both society and the economy over the years, binging about changes in ways of life and artistic trends.
The continuous introduction of innovative techniques has always been coupled with constant care and attention with regard to the artistic elements expressed in the creation of refined form and decoration, inspired by canons of style, which have successively appeared on the panorama of the arts: from Neoclassicism to Empire style and from Eclecticism to Art Nouveau.

The Richard-Ginori factory itself has contributed in a decisive way to the spread of new tendencies in the production of art and craft in the 1920s. At that time, Giò Ponti, then manager of the factory, designed forms and décor with such innovative ideas that they were soon being imitated.
The ability to interpret the taste of an evergrowing and ever more varied public has been a constant factor in the history the Manifattura.
Thanks to this capacity, the Richard-Ginori has filled important pages in the history of ceramic art, by producing works of great value in porcelain and majolica and by extending to less sophisticated objects of everyday use, the refinement of painstaking artistic research.

Richard-Ginori Museum - Museo di Doccia