An Italian Porcelain House Borrows the Morgan Library for an Evening

Ginori 1735 picked the Morgan Library & Museum in New York as the room in which to introduce "Fortunae," its newest porcelain collection. The Italian maker brought guests with an eye for design into the McKim, Mead & White interiors on Madison Avenue, rooms that date to the years when the city's great private houses were still being built. Few settings in Manhattan carry that period as completely as the Morgan does. Porcelain and a Gilded Age library make a natural pairing, since both depend on craft that rewards close looking and is meant to be kept. For readers who follow what happens inside the city's landmark houses, the evening is a reminder that the Morgan still receives guests as it was built to.

With reporting from Surface.