A working workshop you can walk into

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.