Ceramics In Palermo

Sicilian ceramics in palermo posted by vdg on december 14 2017 february 4 2020 last summer i dashed down to sicily and wanted to purchase some gorgeous sicilian majolica ceramic art for my new house.

Ceramics in palermo. The pottery is one of the oldest cultural techniques of humanity. We could begin by telling you that maremoro produces extraordinary handcrafted sicilian ceramics by following ancient traditions which transform an artisan product into a design object. I bought several ceramic items on a recent trip to sicily. Through its ceramics maremoro tells stories that reveal sicily its colours its flavours and its fragrances creating furnishing accessories with a.

Since 1990 sons and daughters of mr. Today ceramics are made and sold all over sicily. The palermo collections the reproduce different material effects on ceramic including the metal look stoneware successfully combine the characteristic fascination of other types of materials with the physical properties and related performance typical of porcelain tiles. The company was founded by the raffa husbands in palermo in 1979.

But without any doubt the most popular and fascinating ceramic objects are the moorish heads or teste di moro. There are many factories workshops so i can t recommend a brand. The original folk tale behind the ceramic heads comes from palermo and tells of a saracen merchant who falls in love with a beautiful local girl. But it s in caltagirone with its famous seventeenth century ceramic staircase the scala di santa maria del monte that these colorfully decorated.

But maremoro has much greater ambitions than that. Ceramics pottery in palermo. Family run ceramic business my partner and i purchased several items from the retail shop workshops on same premises from ceramiche tre erre on our recent visit to sicliy. In a fit of jealously and rage she murders him in his sleep.

The towns of santo stefano di camastra and monreale just outside palermo also boast important and distinct ceramics traditions of their own. Sicilian ceramic decorative objects and tablewear make lovely and colourful souvenirs but what about a brightening up of your kitchen and bathroom or a new flooring with hand painted tiles from sicily. We had intended to buy some ceramics and had a good look round palermo we felt that the workmanshop and colours were superior to much we had seen. Walking through the many narrow streets of taormina you may end up in via degli artisti an incredibly beautiful street embellished by sicilian majolica ceramics designed by a local artist.

His brochure doesn t have a website listed. Tre erre ceramiche creates artistic ceramics entirely by hand in palermo since 1979.