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  • Hand-painted, one piece at a time
  • Two firings: no two pieces come out alike
  • Studio open to visitors in Certaldo, Val d’Elsa
  • Collect at the studio, no shipping cost
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The studio

A working workshop you can walk into

Via Firenze 83, Fiano di Certaldo — between Florence, San Gimignano and the Chianti hills of Tuscany.

Not a showroom

This is the place where the work is actually done. The kiln is here, the bench is here, and so is whatever is drying today. It is also the shop: what you see on the shelves you can take home, with no shipping to arrange and nothing to wait for.

  • Monday – Friday 9am–1pm · 4–7.30pm
  • Saturday 9am–1pm
  • Sunday closed

Because it is a working studio, there are days when the kiln is closed and cannot be opened. If you are coming for one particular piece, or to talk about a commission, a telephone call first saves a wasted journey.

Getting here

Certaldo sits in the Val d’Elsa, halfway between Florence and Siena. By train it is on the Empoli–Siena line, a little under an hour from Florence Santa Maria Novella; the studio is a short distance from the station. By car, San Gimignano is fifteen minutes away, Volterra about an hour, and the Chianti Classico road begins just above the town at Barberino Tavarnelle.

Certaldo Alto, the walled brick village on the hill, is worth the funicular ride: Giovanni Boccaccio lived his last years and died there in 1375, and his house is now a small museum.

If you want to see the work happen

Visitors are welcome to watch, ask questions and look at pieces at every stage — raw, biscuit-fired, glazed, finished. We do not run scheduled courses or ticketed demonstrations, and we would rather say so than advertise something that does not exist.

Corner of the workshop with a dresser, hand-painted ceramics and lavender
Oval plate hand-painted with lemons in a wooden crate
Dinner set with flowers on a pale blue ground laid out in the workshop

Inside

What the workshop looks like

Walls covered in plates, dressers, laid tables: the pieces are where you can pick them up.

The central table of the workshop with a hand-painted dinner set
Workshop wall with hand-painted plates and wooden crates
Pale dresser with hand-painted plates and bowls
Workshop room with a cast-iron stove and a laid table
Turquoise and black plate displayed on an easel in the workshop
Dresser with the lemon dinner set and the chequered set
Corner of the workshop with a lamp and a large hand-painted yellow plate
Window of the Certaldo workshop with a wrought-iron grille
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