Ceramics In Palermo

I bought several ceramic items on a recent trip to sicily.

Ceramics in palermo.

Through its ceramics maremoro tells stories that reveal sicily its colours its flavours and its fragrances creating furnishing accessories with a. The company was founded by the raffa husbands in palermo in 1979. 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. Raffa help their parents in the management of the company.

Ceramics pottery in palermo. Since 1990 sons and daughters of mr. 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. 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.

But maremoro has much greater ambitions than that. Tre erre ceramiche creates artistic ceramics entirely by hand in palermo since 1979. 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. 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.

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. Together they start a passionate love affair until the girl discovers her lover has a wife and children waiting for him in his homeland. There are many factories workshops so i can t recommend a brand. The towns of santo stefano di camastra and monreale just outside palermo also boast important and distinct ceramics traditions of their own.

Today ceramics are made and sold all over sicily. The pottery is one of the oldest cultural techniques of humanity. His brochure doesn t have a website listed. In a fit of jealously and rage she murders him in his sleep.

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. But it s in caltagirone with its famous seventeenth century ceramic staircase the scala di santa maria del monte that these colorfully decorated.