About

Carlo Maggiora LLC. provides mountmaking services for museums, galleries and private collectors around the country.

Carlo Maggiora began museum mount making and installation in the nineties with the reinstallation of the Egyptian galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

With over a decade of prior experience in film set construction and steel furniture making, Carlo designed and fabricated the mounts and hanging hardware for many of the large Egyptian stone reliefs and architectural fragments. This was followed by work on the Early Christian and Byzantine gallery renovation, that required the modification of existing mounts and the fabrication of new ones for the largest mosaics and architectural fragments displayed around the top of the gallery walls.

Carlo then worked full time in the installation department of the Cleveland Museum of Art from 2001 to 2003, working on numerous exhibitions, making and installing mounts in the Pre-Columbian gallery, the Asian galleries and the African gallery. Carlo coordinated the mock-ups for the African collection in preparation for the gallery renovation and reinstallation.
Carlo worked with conservators, curators and exhibit designers making mounts that met museum standards for safety and aesthetic minimalism.

Cristina Maggiora, Carlo's sister, majored in metalsmithing at the Cleveland Institute of Art and worked for years as a jewelry designer in New York City. Cristina and other skilled crew members work regularly on the design and fabrication of mounts for the company, in particular the delicate, jewel like mounts for small artifacts and the construction of mannequins and textile fixtures.

In 2005 the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, in Beachwood Ohio, required the design and fabrication of the mounts and the installation of the 600 artifacts in its collection. Mounts for jewelry, large architectural fragments, delicate paper objects and textiles, household items and religious art were patterned and catalogued. Working with the design team and the museum staff, each artifact was then fitted and installed.


CarloMaggiora LLC has been working with many of the University Circle organizations on an ongoing basis. The latest work has been with the Case Medical Museum installing the new gallery which opened this fall. In September 2009 the company completed the mountmaking and the reinstallation of the Skuy collection at the Case Medical Museum.

Carlo Maggiora LLC. is a member of the Midwestern Regional Conservation Guild.

Photo credits:
Laura Travis
Carlo Maggiora

 

bacchanal, Cleveland Museum of Art

Coastal sculpture CWRU

Segal sculpture Cleveland Museum of Art

temple case installation, Maltz Museum