prillo

Just a few kilometres from Bologna stands Faenza,a city that since the Middle Ages has been a centre of excellence for the production and design of terracotta and ceramics.

Here, a small family business made up of the owner and 5 artisans has been handing down the ancient art of working earth and clay for over 50 years..

Our collaboration for the creation of Prillo began in this workshop. Prillo. Here, the working method respects the rhythms of nature and of people: the creation of every single object is the product of skilled hands, care and expectations..

After mixing the earth and water,, the clay is cut in the necessary quantity e lavorata con il tornioone of the most traditional working tools.

Il passo successivo è la spugnatura a mano, che conferisce a Prillo la particolare texture a righe verticali, seguita dall’impressione del marchio, che avviene, sempre manualmente, con un punzone.

Una volta formato, Prillo viene fatto essiccare all’aria aperta, in un processo che richiede tempi decisi dalle condizioni atmosferiche. Meteo permettendo, l’essiccazione ha termine e viene cotto nel forno. La lavorazione termina qui.

Each piece looks the same, but in reality it differs from the others and carries with it the uniqueness, the knowledge, the hand of the creator.