Ambrogio Pozzi Biography
Ambrogio Pozzi, son of the industrial ceramist Franco, was born in Varese in 1931. Having graduated in chemistry, he became interested in ceramics in the early 1950s by attending courses at the Gaetano Ballardini Institute in Faenza and collaborating with Nanni Valentini, Albert Diato and Carlo Zauli. Since 1950 he has collaborated with the family ceramic factory "Ceramica Franco Pozzi Spa Gallarate" in Gallarate. In the 1960s he created some unique majolica pieces with a primitivist flavor at the "Nuova Ca' Pirota" workshops. Subsequently he created a complex production of models which were produced in the "Pozzi Ceramiche" factory in Gallarate, in the province of Varese, owned by his father Franco. In the same years he created models for "Richard-Ginori", "Rosenthal" and "Thomas". In 1964 he presented a series of containers at the XIII Triennale in Milan. At the end of the 1960s he designed some models for Pierre Cardin. At the beginning of the Seventies he was invited by the "Richard-Ginori" ceramics factory to design some table services, created in collaboration with Joe Colombo, intended to be used by Alitalia on board its airliners. In 1987 the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza dedicated an important anthological exhibition to him. In the 1990s Ambrogio Pozzi created numerous sculptures in one-off pieces or small series made by "Ceramica Ibis" of Cunardo and "Ceramica Pezzetta" of Udine. In the same years he collaborated with the "Rometti" factory in Umbertide (Pg), owned by Dino Finocchi, designing a series of kitchen accessories called "Dolly" presented at the "MACEF" in Milan in 1997, where they obtained the "Critics Award". in the kitchen accessories section. In the same year he was at the Triennale di Milano in the Design section Permanent Collection of Italian Design 45/90 and, the only Italian, he was guest of honor at the Ceramics Museum in Faenza in the exhibition "Ten designers from the world". He has also collaborated in the ceramic field with "Il Coccio" and "Ceramiche Tognana". In 2000 he obtained the Laveno Mombello International Ceramic Design Award. Ambrogio Pozzi has also designed innovative collections in other materials: plastic in the very significant works in collaboration with Guzzini (e.g. the Pomona series of 1976), glass in the works for Vilca, Cristalleria Colle, Cristalleria Europa and for Ritzenhoff . He also designed objects in silver, steel, wood and wristwatches. Graphics, painting, sculpture and photography complete the personality and activity of the designer. Some ceramics designed by Ambrogio Pozzi are today preserved in the Nove Ceramics Museum. Ambrogio Pozzi died in 2012.
