Historical
jewellery store of
the House of Torrini
Palazzo Gondi - Piazza Duomo, 10r
50122 Firenze - Italy
Tel : +(39) 055 230 24 01
Fax : +(39) 055 284 457
E-mail : shop@torrini.it
Internet :www.torrinishop.it
www.torrinimuseo.it
OPIFICIO ORAFO TORRINI
Manufacturing headquarters
Via Ponte a Iozzi, 8/3
50023 Impruneta - Firenze - Italy
Tel : +(39) 055 2094 31
Fax : +(39) 055 2094 333
E-mail : info@torrini.it
Internet : www.torrini.it
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The Company Today |
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The Torrini tradition continues today with the shop in Piazza del Duomo in Florence, the magical place for the |
consumers' first encounter with Torrini jewellery.
The shop is located in the Palazzo Gondi and its seven windows look out on to the magnificent Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.
A select network of Torrini Authorized Dealers world-wide reinforces the strong, international identity of what is probably the most ancient jewellery company on earth.
The manufacturing activities represent a true source of creativity, with the use of traditional techniques and exclusive finishes, characterized by distinctive taste and originality.
The particular manufacturing process, called "Oro Nativo", is tied to the legend of "Cellinian Water", whose secret formula is still a Torrini exclusive.
It entails a method of working gold which gives it its most natural colour.
The production of silver gifts and accessories completes the Florentine manufacturing activity, but its experience in design has also given rise to the creation of a distinctive collection of wrist watches, which are produced with great technical skill in the Swiss Canton of Neuchatel.
Franco Torrini's family is the last link of this long chain and perfectly represents the culture of the firm: creativity and know-how, bound to an unyielding determination to be rather than to appear.
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Key Dates of the
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1369 |
The hand-written registration of the trademark in the State Archives of Florence, undoubtedly made in 1369 by Jacopus Turini, is the historical source of a family's epic course, which has, over the centuries, branched out considerably, but which has ultimately succeeded in carrying forth to the present day the solidity and reality of this "signum".
Important traces of goldsmith activity can be found in Siena with Turino di Sano and his son Giovanni, "worthy of greater fame and recognition" to quote the Commentary of the Life of Pollajuolo.
Original registration of the historical Torrini trademark in 1369.
Photo from the State Archive of Florence. |
1450 |
The past has seen ancestral members of the Torrini Family holding the prestigious office of Prior of Siena no less than 28 times, thus acquiring the title of "Nobleman of Siena". It is the middle of the 15th Century.
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From
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Due to the wars between Guelphs and Ghibellines, this branch of the family returns to Mugello from 1500 to 1600, passing into Umbria in 1700 and finally back to its Florentine origins in 1800.
The fine mosaic works of art that Giocondo Torrini left to posterity, one of which is displayed at the British Museum in London, bear witness to these moves.
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The Torrini Museum
Following the total destruction of the archives and factories during the Second World War and the dramatic flooding of Florence in 1966, research has been carried out world-wide to trace pieces of jewellery that bear the ancient trademark and this has led to the creation of a small, authentic Torrini Museum.
The Torrini Museum, located near the historical Torrini headquarters in the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, brings together works of art bearing the ancient trademark.
It offers an accurate extremely significant chronicle of the legacy that this family has left behind in its work between the late 1500's and the artistic avant-garde linked to the ferment of the early 1970's.
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