"Bimba Contadinella" of the Manifattura Essevi, Sandro Vacchetti, 30s











"Bimba Contadinella with traditional clothes" of the Essevi manufacture, Sandro Vacchetti - Turin 1930s. The manufacture for the production of "Essevi" artistic ceramics is founded in 1934 by the painter, ceramist and designer Sandro Vacchetti in society with the Turin ceramicist in Franchini, both former employees of the Turin ceramic manufacturing "Lenci". The production of the company, which uses, among others, of the collaboration of the sculptor Otto Maraini and of Giovanni Grande and his wife Ines Panchieri Grande, often follows the works of the company "Lenci", of which the Vacchetti had been artistic director from the Foundation until 1933, and is made up of figures of Donnine often in fashion or succinct clothes. Since the end of the 1930s, the "Essevi" also makes use of the collaboration of the Cagliari sculptor Alessandro Mola of R. Alemanno and Camillo Ghigo and still of the decorators Margherita Costantino and Renata Ponti and Giovanni Taverna to whom Vacchetti entrusts the position of artistic director - designer. In the years of the Second World War, the manufacture moved to Carrù, in the province of Cuneo, where it creates reduced production. Returning to Turin in 1945, "Essevi" closes its doors in 1952 year in which, having left the activity of Ceramista, Sandro Vacchetti returns to devote himself, for some years, exclusively to painting. In the early sixties Sandro Vacchetti moved to Rome where, together with Romagna and Assandro, he founded the "Create" ceramic manufacture with which, among others, Bruno Bagnoli works. The manufacture continues production on some of the molds of "Essevi" without however reaching the same qualitative results.
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