Cristina Lottero’s artistic journey began around the 1980s, in Albissola Marina, in the 18th-century Fornace degli Isola. At the side of her grandmother Pina Olivero, a renowned Albissola potter, she learned to paint on majolica, model clay and lead the art workshop. Her passion for design and goldsmithing led Cristina to experience new techniques and […]

Giuseppe Bucco and Flavio Cavalli create their products by using glazed stoneware, which is an amazingly resistant and waterproof ceramic material, used to make vases, trays, bottles, human and animal figurines. The engobe decoration is composed of clay mixed with metallic oxides, dyes and flux substances combined with siliceous sand to give the artifacts the […]

For Lorenzo Rossi, it all began by going with a friend to a workshop to have a guitar repaired. And it was love at first sight: he decided to pursue that craft as his path in life, firstly, at the Civic School of Lutherie, and then by working as an apprentice in illustrious luthiers’ workshops. […]

Located along the panoramic walkway overlooking Volterra’s ancient Roman theater, Fabula Etrusca is a goldsmith’s workshop which has been creating magnificent pieces of jewelry inspired by Etruscan art for over 30 years. Patrizia, Luca, Giovanni, Monica, Giuseppina and Antonella use the ancient lost-wax casting process, as well as the granulation, embossing and chiseling techniques to […]

Nicolò Morales, the depositary of a thousand year-old tradition of ceramics in Caltagirone, defines himself as a curious experimenter in visual arts. In his factory, customers can appreciate the prototypes of majolica decorations of the court of Frederick of Swabia dating from the thirteenth century, or anthropomorphic vases, which bear witness to the defeat of […]

“I create jewelry for those who, like me, believe in art”.  That is how Daniela Vettori describes her thirty-year-long experience in the field of research and experimentation with precious metals. Her atelier-workshop is based in Vicenza and that is where Daniela has trained a team of skilled artisans who have been able to meet the […]

Statues of all sizes, nativity scenes from 11 to 160 cm: at the Casa d’Arte professor Lando Landi has been a supplier for the best religious shops in Italy and in the world and the religious institutions for more than 80 years. The smallest statues are made of solid resin, the others of fibre glass […]

Gifted with a special artistic feeling and deep respect for the environment, Fornacina has been designing and creating top-quality ceramic objects of the highest craftsmanship for over twenty years. They are all 100% handmade by using non-toxic and natural materials, in a workshop offering the warm atmosphere and attention to detail typical of a family-run […]

It is thanks to Sandro Bormioli that Pyrex, or borosilicate glass, is credited as an artistic material. Even today his son Constantino uses the technique that was made famous by his father to create objects of various kinds, such as animals, flowers, bottles, and chandeliers. Alongside this production, he also creates products using the technique […]

The skilful artist Tonino Negri’s terracotta pottery expresses formal quality and skilled craftsmanship. The fire has marked the clay with its colour and you do not feel the need to dress it in shiny and crystalline polychromatic glazes. Each object stands out for its perfectly recognisable stylistic features. Light-weight sculptures because they have a usable […]