FRANCESCO DE MAIO
CERAMICA DI VIETRI
ITALY
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Handcrafted and hand-decorated majolica tiles reinterpret the historical memory, innovate and create redesigning the ceramic according to new tastes and trends...
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MAJOLICA TILES
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An exclusive production that stands out for its elegance and impeccable design.
“Made in Italy” not only for the reference to artisan quality, but also for the history and creativity an authentic Italian identity: strictly handmade majolica tiles, objects and furnishings recall the typical decorations of the Vietri ceramics, from classic to modern to design style.
Italian excellence and emblem made in Italy, Ceramica Francesco De Maio has the exclusive license for the five continents to faithfully reproduce and sell one of the most beautiful ceramic collections, the Blu Ponti. Thirty-three white and blue decorations created by the great designer Gio Ponti in 1960 for the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento.
For the high artistic quality of its production of hand-decorated tiles, it is also the exclusive licensee of the Puntini Collection that the designer Alessandro Mendini, in September 2018, designed specifically for Ceramica Francesco De Maio.
BLU PONTI
Design by Gio Ponti
The colors of the sky and the sea in the Blu Ponti Collection that Gio Ponti realized between 1960 and 1962 to cover, with different combinations, the floor of the lobby and the hundred rooms at the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento, the first design hotel in the world.
The Ceramica Francesco De Maio was chosen by the Ponti’s heirs as the exclusive licensee for the re-edition of the 33 white and blue decorations and now, after almost 60 years later, produces and sells, in world exclusive, the Blue Ponti Collection.
A reproduction of the Blu Ponti majolica tiles so faithful for the glaze, colors, decorations and the thickness of the '60s that has recognized to the Ceramica Francesco De Maio the valuable use of the signature of this architect, a proponent of the industrial design and great appreciator of the craftsmanship. The prestigious signature of Gio Ponti, architect, designer and Italian essayist, one of the most important on the international scene and among the greatest of the twentieth century is on the ceramic tiles of this Italian company, nowadays a world excellence.
Rigorously hand-painted majolica tiles according to the ancient technique of hand-made decoration to merge the craftsmanship, the territoriality and the design to emphasize the true Made in Italy.
PUNTINI
Design by Alessandro Mendini
Majolica ceramic tiles invaded by tiny dot-shaped brushstrokes, hand-painted (o hand-decorated) and inspired by the pointillism, are a ceramic collection designed by the Architect Alessandro Mendini for Ceramica Francesco De Maio, as a direct consequence of a work of art that the company realized in July 2018 and since October 2020 has been part of the permanent collection of MADRE Museum, Naples.
Dots of different sizes: small, very small or large and very large.
Very colourful decorations - done according to the “Mendini Style”, which is open to the language of the contemporary era in this magical combination of tradition and creativity all Made in Italy - are the perfect opportunity for interaction between the excellence and the ancient tradition of Vietri ceramics, of which Francesco De Maio is a worldwide emblem, and the Made in Italy creativity by Alessandro Mendini, one of the most appreciated contemporary designers.
Therefore, in Puntini Collection the poetics of this great Italian artist, of Milanese origins, emerges in order to give a further opening to contemporary languages in the tradition of Vietri which, at the same time, enhances modern spaces and architecture.
