The Infinite Beauty | Spring / Summer 2022

The white marble of Carrara enhances the newest collection by Florentine designer Stefano Ricci. It is a natural wonder that inspired Michelangelo, Bernini and Canova, and contemporary artists continue to strive to measure themselves against this precious material.
“It is an ideal journey that leads us to the roots of masterpieces,” says Filippo Ricci, Creative Director. “We imagined the SR man in a path of exploration, beginning from the material that gives shape to dreams with his research guiding his choices and his study preparing him for life. The soul of the work is revealed, made of forms and emotions, of manual work in the quarries, of marble and artist workshops”.
“The world has changed,” states Niccolò Ricci, CEO of the Florentine company. “In the months marked by the pandemic, we all had to reflect upon ourselves. We started from the awareness of how much our country is loved in the world for its excellence. And a message of the Italian spirit could not overlook a tribute to the genius of Michelangelo and his marble creations”.
The ancient Romans were the first to choose Carrara marbles to celebrate their magnificence. In the Middle Ages, this message was taken up by artists such as Niccolò Pisano and Donatello, but it was Michelangelo who transformed marble into the material of eternity. After him came Bernini and Canova.
We let ourselves be inspired by fragments of infinity.” continued Filippo Ricci, “That is, the plaster models by Canova found at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara (Academy of Fine Arts), the workshop of the Studi d’Arte Cave Michelangelo Group where the ancient tradition of sculpture is combined with the present, the Polvaccio quarry that bears the name of Buonarroti, and even the marbles themselves in the heart of the mountains that speak to those working in the quarries. We were speechless, contemplative, of the heights of the Cervaiole mountain where the vision of Henraux glimmers. We filmed and photographed these places for the collection, promoting, like Stefano Ricci, a message of infinite beauty.”