Adolfo Orsi

Adolfo Orsi (1888 – 20 December 1972) was an Italian industrialist, known for owning the Maserati automobile maker.

Coming from a poor family from San Lazzaro, near Modena, he lost his father in 1899. Later he created a successful business in the scrap iron, steel mill and farm equipment manufacturing area, employing several thousands in Modena and surrounding towns, as of the late 1920s. His interests also included running the trolley company of Modena, and being involved with the local soccer team, Modena F.C. in its successful early years.

With his brother, Marcello, he was involved in a Fiat dealership, the Fiat A.M. Orsi (1935). He bought the financially troubled Maserati company in 1937, employing his son, Omar Orsi as managing director (1937); three of the Maserati Brothers were retained on ten-year contracts on the engineering team (1937–47). Orsi moved operations from Bologna to Modena (1940), near his steel plants (the Fonderie Riunite), for automobile as well as spark plug manufacturing. Orsi hired his brother in-law Alceste Giacomazzi, as new general director, and succeeded in bringing Ferrari employee Alberto Massimino over to Maserati (1944–52), as well as hiring the Argentine driver ace Juan Manuel Fangio (1953).

Adolfo

Adolfo is a Brazilian municipality located in the interior of the state of São Paulo in the microregion of São José do Rio Preto. The population is 3,623 (2015 est.) in an area of 211.1 square kilometres (81.5 sq mi). The municipality was established in 1959.

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Adolfo (designer)

Adolfo Sardiña (born 1933), professionally known as Adolfo, is a Cuban-born American fashion designer who started out as a milliner in the 1950s. While chief designer for the wholesale milliners Emme, he won the Coty Award and the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award. In 1963 he set up his own salon in New York, firstly as a milliner, and then focusing on clothing. He retired from fashion design in 1993.

Early life

Adolfo Sardiña was born in Cárdenas, Cuba on the 15th February 1933. His mother was Irish; his father Spanish. He attended the St Ignacio de Loyola Jesuit School in Havana and served in the Cuban Army. In 1948 Adolfo immigrated to New York.

Millinery

As his mother had died in childbirth, Adolfo was brought up by an aunt who enjoyed wearing French haute couture, and encouraged her nephew to pursue fashion design. With his aunt's help, Adolfo joined Cristóbal Balenciaga as an apprentice milliner. He worked at Balenciaga from 1950-52.

In 1953 Adolfo joined the New York-based wholesale millinery company Emme as their chief designer. In the summer of 1957, to further his skills, he served an unpaid apprenticeship with Coco Chanel's New York hat salon. Adolfo would later admit that he "never enjoyed making hats."