01 - Casa studio Sora

Hidden behind the port church there is a house that stands out for its beauty and stylistic peculiarity. We are struck by the reference to an ancient taste, a quite evident reference to the Romanesque style of Sant'Ambrogio, and located on a small hill surrounded by greenery. In this house, owned by the Premudas, the laboratory house of Elso Sora was built by their express wish, a well-known ceramist born in Pesaro in 1905 who in 1917, at the age of 12, entered the Molaroni Laboratory where he also assimilated from another master, Pietro Turri, Argentine painter, the imagination and originality of artistic creation, attending, at the same time, the School of Art and the Studio of the well-known painter Fernando Mariotti.

We gladly refer to the information reported on the official website dedicated to him.

His contribution to the laboratory's research became increasingly important and this was particularly evident during the 2nd National Ceramics Exhibition held in Pesaro in 1928.

In 1930 the Molaroni factory closed and Elso Sora was hired by the illustrious architect Giò Ponti who had admired some of his works at the Monza Biennale in the majolica section of Richard Ginori. Returning to Pesaro, he resumed work at the Molaroni Factory and became its Artistic Director.

In 1950, he established, together with his brother Nemorino, Vittorio Benvenuti and the young Franco Ridolfi, the company "A.M.A." (Artigiani Maiolicari Associati) which became a true hotbed of art masterpieces, awarded in national and international exhibitions. We'll talk about it again in stage 9.

For 74 years Elso Sora painted wonderful majolica works until the last month of his life: he died in Pesaro on 13 August 1991.

Some of his works are part of the Civic Museum of Pesaro, the International Ceramics Museum of Faenza, the Artistic Heritage of the Ferruccio Mengaroni State Art Institute of Pesaro and many private collections in Italy and abroad.

In this house the taste for interpreting past styles is evident, combining them with choices developed by the owners, a very important feature that we find in other houses in Pesaro. The catalog dedicated to Sora underlines the passion that led Mrs. Premuda to design the details of the living space herself, such as the internal staircase, and the desire to choose with Sora ceramic objects, paintings and decorative details that could create a home full of suggestions from the past and beauty.