The company founded in 1899 by Mariano Fortuny and his wife Henriette, inventors of numerous processes such as silk pleating and dimmable lighting, has just opened a second store in Paris, on the same street (Bonaparte) as the first.
If he were still alive today, he could exhibit his work this fall at both Who’s Next and Maison & Objet, the Parisian fashion and interior design trade shows, respectively.
The lifestyle universe ahead of its time created by the brilliant artist, craftsman, inventor, and jack-of-all-trades Mariano Fortuny, born in Granada in 1871 and died in Venice in 1949, an expert in exceptional fabrics and lighting, continues to live on. And not only in the lines of the iconic work “In Search of Lost Time,” in which Marcel Proust recalls: “The Fortuny dress Albertine wore that evening seemed to me like the tempting shadow of that invisible Venice”…
Still handcrafted
Entrusted in 1949 by Fortuny’s widow to her exclusive distributor in the United States, New York interior designer Elsie McNeill, the reins of the Fortuny brand were then passed on to a New York lawyer and close collaborator of the House. After reorganizing it, he left the keys to his sons, Mickey and Maury Riad, who managed to revive the House without compromising its artisanal tradition.
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