"Campana" seats
Designer: Leticia Prado
Engineering: Valentina Frosini, designer
Location: Montefioralle
Coordinates:
N: 43° 35' 06.9''
E: 11° 18' 06.2''
Production: Sergio Ricceri
This branch of the Ricceri family was already engaged in the production of terracotta items during the 18th century, but it was especially in the 20th century that the factory expanded, thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of Giuseppe Ricceri, who, upon discovering a deposit of firectays in the area of Santa Flora on Mount Amiata, established brickworks there, besides some others including the one he founded as far as Libya. Under his two sons Giacinto and Raffaello, the Impruneta plant specialized in flowerpots for large plants and became the official supplier of the Vatican which uses them in its own gardens. Then, in the 5o's, Raffaello built his own factory producing small decorative objects, not only in terracotta but in majolica as well. Today, Raffaello's son, Sergio Ricceri, carries out constant experimentation both on materials like earthenware, but also bucchero and majolica, - and on the finishing in particular, improving the frost-resistant glazes, the craquelé or the variously aging effects, which give a durable patina to the different types of ceramics.
