Ferruccio Palazzi Biography
Ferruccio Palazzi was born in Arcevia, in the province of Ancona, in 1886 and after completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia and Urbino he moved to Rome in 1919 where he worked as a designer at the General Directorate of Health. In 1920 he founded his first ceramic factory, the "LNCR" (Laboratorio Nuova Ceramica Roma"), opened a furniture studio in via del Foro Italico and an art gallery in Piazza Venezia, intended to host a permanent exhibition of ceramics, exhibitions of painting, sculpture, applied arts, concerts and cultural events and where in 1921 he organized a collective exhibition of artistic ceramics where Duilio Cambellotti, Renzo Cellini, Achille Mauzan, Roberto Rosati and Vittorio Saltelli exhibited. In 1923, the year of the show's foundation. room "La Casa D'Arte Palazzi", Ferruccio Palazzi participates, with some ceramics bearing the brand of his manufacture, in the 1st Roman Exhibition of Agriculture, Industry and Applied Arts held at the Galloppatoio of Villa Borghese, where he obtained, equal merit with Umberto Bottazzi, a silver medal. In the same year he was present at the I Biennale of Decorative Arts in Monza. In 1924 he presented some works created in his kilns by Duilio Cambellotti, Giulio Rufa, at the National Exhibition of Modern Ceramics. Virginio La Rovere, Aldo Castelli and Roberto Rosati as well as some of his antique style vases for which he obtained a bronze medal. In 1925 he left the headquarters in Piazza Venezia, destined for demolition by the regime for the new urban layout of the square, and took over the old furnace of the Palazzo del Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni in Piazza San Salvatore in Lauro 5 where he founded, in the premises of the former "Manifattura Picena", the "La Fiamma" factory and entrusted its artistic direction to Roberto Rosati. The following year Palazzi founded the "Società Anonima Ceramiche Palazzi" and, assisted by Giulio Rufa and Roberto Rosati, opened the laboratories to teaching. Numerous artists from the Roman area, even if only occasionally dedicated to ceramics, fire their works in the manufacturing ovens. In 1932 he published the manual "Ceramic Technology" and from 1934 to 1937 he published the monthly bulletin "CSC" (Centro Studi Ceramici). In 1937, due to the economic difficulties facing the factory, he closed the laboratory, accepted a government job as a researcher of precious minerals in East Africa, moving to Ethiopia where he founded a ceramic school. Upon returning to Italy, he definitively abandoned ceramics and dedicated himself to other entrepreneurial activities. Over the years he designed and created some ceramics which he branded with his initials. Ferruccio Palazzi died in Osimo, in the province of Ancona, in 1972.
