An Evening Dedicated to Giovanna Ferrero Ventimiglia and her Piccoli Smalti at Casa Triplef
Conceived by Federica Formilli Fendi, Casa Triplef occupies a historic building between Rome’s Botanical Gardens and the Trastevere district. Last Wednesday, it hosted a special evening dedicated to Giovanna Ferrero Ventimiglia, founder of Piccoli Smalti, a project that interlaces family memory with contemporary vision, Milanese rigor with poetic flair. With its distinctive blend of fashion, culture, and interior design, the Roman salon provided an ideal setting to present both the latest collection and the book Piccoli Smalti – Contemporary Twist on Grandfather Cloisonné Legacy, authored by Ferrero Ventimiglia herself.
Collectors, designers, friends of the house and familiar faces from the creative scene moved through glossy surfaces and art pieces as if they were pages of a story. And in truth, the story was right there, embodied in the designer’s words — and even more so in her creations — as she presented the volume with the composure of someone handling a cherished legacy: that of Renato Morganti, her grandfather, who in the post-war years engraved and kiln-enameled small carré, tiny plates of light born from precision, resilience and imagination. Today, that ancient technique, reinterpreted through an architectural sensibility, becomes a lexicon of pure geometries, imperfect symmetries and colors that seem to breathe through the material.
The event drew many familiar faces from Rome’s cultural community. Alongside hosts Federica Formilli Fendi and her daughter Ginevra Piersanti Fendi, guests included Dylan Tripp, Sidival Fila, Francesca Moratti, Alexis Lahellec and Marella Caracciolo Chia.
The evening unfolded in soft conversations and the quiet thrill of witnessing a ritual: the transmission of a tradition into the realm of the contemporary. At Casa Triplef, Piccoli Smalti opened up like a world of its own — a small atlas of enameled emotions, delicately suspended between memory and desire.
Text: Germano D’Acquisto
Photos: Niccolò Campita
