Chiarini Fountain

Chiarini Fountain

Chiarini Ma, 2005

The Chiarini Fountain by Chiarini Ma was donated by the Chiarini family to the Artists Promenade.

The name “Chiarini” was associated with high-quality workmanship long before George Sr. and his sons George and Richard decided to move their operations from Brooklyn, New York to Santa Ana in 1978. Richard was given the task of finding a new location, and he discovered a site in the Santa Ana Station Districe within the first industrial park ever established in Orange County. Chiarini Marble & Stone became an increasingly sucessful full-service provider of marble and stone throughout Orange County. Their reputation soon spread up and down the coast of California and as far as the Pacific Northwest.

In the 1990s when an arts movement began in Santa Ana, the Chiarini brothers designed a breathtaking Italian courtyard fountain to serve as a centerpiece for the new 10-block urban arts district called “The Artists Village.” The fountain is dedicated to George Chiarini Sr., Don Cribb, founder of the Village, and the artists whose contributions helped bring a creative spirit of relevance, energy and optimism to the future of downtown Santa Ana.