GIUSEPPE BAGGI (1914-1972), A PAPER GLOBERTROTTER Giuseppe "Peppino" Baggi was one of the many endearing characters that colored the initial times of modern origami, back in the 1950s. He was a bohemian, an adventurer, an eccentric who had been born in Italy and became a globetrotter, traveling the world, sometimes sleeping in the street, sometimes in seedy pensions.
Our friend Mick Guy, from the British Origami Society, kindly lent his voice to record a chronicle on Baggi that was published in the New York Times in February 1959. The video features cut-outs from the museum collection and archival images. (For the first part in Spanish, turn on English Subtitles in the YouTube video settings. The rest is Mick’s voice, of course in English) en.museodelorigami.org/videoteca-septiembre-2020 <http://en.museodelorigami.org/videoteca-septiembre-2020> Laura Rozenberg Museo del Origami Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay