Ceramica Francesco De Maio, heir of an ancient tradition, is still handing on the cultural, artistic and craft heritage of Vietri ceramics. Its Master decorators, guide by their passion and professionalism, handcrafte and decorate by hand the majolica tiles to reinterpret the historical memory, innovate and create ceramic according to new tastes and design trends.
Vietri sul Mare is a small ancient village of artists located at the entrance of the wonderful Amalfi Coast. It is surrounded by the prevalence of the green colour of the coast and the blue colour of the sea. Since 1400, Vietri has been known for the production of the ancient ceramic art.
Here is where the Ceramica di Vietri by Francesco De Maio was born, in 1963.
The reference to the land of origin and, therefore, to the wonders of the Amalfi Coast and the exclusive peculiarity of its landscapes is a must to represent the artistic heritage of Ceramica Francesco De Maio.
Vietri sul Mare is a small fishing village of ancient ceramic tradition and it’s located at the entrance of the Amalfi Coast. Its proximity with the Maritime Republics of Amalfi helped to embed precious fragments into the great artistic heritage of the Vietrese ceramic production.
The smells, noises, colours of a fantastic nature, almost unreal, the scenery for the genius of a great architect. They have influenced the creation of is one of the most beautiful ceramic collections with a more current or even trendy style.
Capri, one of the most famous islands in the world. Famous for the uniqueness of its territory, the exclusivity of its hotels, the sumptuousness of its Roman villas and the magnificence of the shopping street, which ranges from haute couture, to limoncello, to ceramics, up to typical handmade sandals.
We are the antithesis of the new digital systems used by big ceramic industries.
We are keepers of secrets and traditions to preserve and maintain this ancient job.
Even today, in the factory, our artisans, with passion and know-how, forge the clay and decorate by hand the majolica tiles piece by piece on the famous “White Vietri” glaze made today with an ancient recipe, handed down from father to son. Despite the changes in raw materials produced in recent years, this recipe still preserves its composition.
We respect our history, because we are made recordory.
Carefully observes the ancient techniques of Vietri ceramic processing to feed every day ceramics' artpass on this passion to all those who know how to admire it and to all those who appreciate the role of extraordinary importance that the human component has in the realization of our artifacts.
Handcraft knowledge and the high quality of Italian raw materials are the main points enshrined in the majolica tiles of Francesco De Maio.
The decoration is exclusively handmade, piece by piece. You can recognize the expert hand of the master decorators of the Ceramica Francesco De Maio in the decors.
The single-coloured tile is realized by the passage of a large brush that leaves irregular streaks of colour, named Pennellata (brush stroke). The stripes in different tonalities are characteristic of this way of working.
The Bianco Vietri glaze is uniformly distributed on the tiles utilizing a bell. Each glazed tile is still unfired. It passes through the hands of the master decorators or sent directly to the firing in the new high-tech plant at a temperature of about 1000° C (1.832° F).
FAMILY HISTORY. A CERAMIC HISTORY.
More than six centuries of history of ceramics, history of passion for the decorations of Vietri culture, of love for the handmade production are kept in the artefacts of Francesco De Maio.
Handmade majolica tiles are the expression of this history, each of them having a story to tell.
Each majolica is unique, a work of art.
Since 1494, an ancient Art.
In the factory of Ceramica Francesco De Maio, the Master decorators still today decorate by hand the majolica tiles, piece by piece.
Ceramica Francesco De Maio is the century-old heir (since 1494) of a long dynasty of ceramic artists and was born after the marriage between Vincenza Cassetta, Giuseppe’s daughter, master potter born in Vietri sul Mare, and Francesco De Maio, heir himself of an ancient traditional family specialized in the processing between the clay quarries of the handmade “Cotto” of Ogliara.
Six centuries of experience and ceramic excellence have passed by since 1494 and handed down from generation to generation from De Maio-Cassetta family, which continues nowadays in the factories of Ceramica Francesco De Maio, to promote the culture, the tradition and the Vietri art using ancient techniques of production that make these ceramics unique and prestigious.
CERAMIC AS CULTURE
The majolica tiles are an accurate sample “Made in Italy” for the reference to the artisan quality and the Italian culture and design.
ART & CERAMIC CULTURE
Special reissues and limited-edition majolica tiles for art projects and national and international exhibitions of artistic and cultural importance.
ART & CERAMIC CULTURE
Ceramica Francesco De Maio reissues the special edition "Via Dezza" majolica, the hand-decorated terracotta with white and yellow bands that paved Gio Ponti’s home.
ART & CERAMIC CULTURE
The historic majolica signed by Gio Ponti, reissued by Ceramica Francesco De Maio, has been selected among the historical icons of the Italian design and is on sale at MoMA Design Store in New York.
ART & CERAMIC CULTURE
The large wall of majolica tiles invaded by 25,590 brushstrokes in the shape of colorful dots. The masterpiece designed by Alessandro Mendini and created by Ceramica Francesco De Maio for the 2018 Landscape Festival in Capri, is part of the permanent collection of the Madre Museum in Naples.
FRANCESCO DE MAIO, CERAMIC MUSEUM
Glass cases used to preserve the most ancient origins of the handmade works of the Vietri tradition of Ceramica Francesco De Maio. A basic set-up made of transparencies and plays of light for a wondebeautifulney through Ceramica Francesco De Maio's history, which preserves the essence of the Made in Italy recognized and appreciated all over the world. Ink sketches, vintage photographs, tiles with clay Aminaa, 18th-century majolica, drawings, artefacts realized by Giuseppe Cassetta, ceramic panels from the 1940s. Tangible symbols of the ancient work of Vietri ceramics live in the museum together with the precious Gio Ponti’s white and blue majolica. Ceramica Francesco De Maio has the exclusive licensee for the production and sale in the world.
FRANCESCO DE MAIO, CERAMIC MUSEUM
A journey through the ceramics that starom the document attesting the sale of 50 oil pitchers made on October 3rd, 1494 by the master of the handmade terracotta Matteo Cassetta. It is an essential document certifying that since the 15th century Vietri Sul Mare, a small village located at the entrance of the beautiful Amalfi Coast, is known for producing “bone et impetenate” ceramics.
MAJOLICA TILES BY AUTHORS
From Blue Infinity to Pointillism, the Masters of International design who have made the history of Italian ceramics.
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.
The colors of the sky and the sea of Sorrento 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
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.
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 Italian tradition and creativity.mi oppure grandi, grandissimi.
In Puntini Collection the poetics of Alessandro Mendini, 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.
Gio Ponti's infinite blue combinations, the artistic manual skills of the artisans and the innovative ceramic technique. It is from the skilful fusion of these three elements that the new project by Ceramica Francesco De Maio is born: Blu Ponti in Grès Maiolicato®.
A dip in the blue of the sky and in the blue of the sea of the Infinito Blu by Gio Ponti
There are always the colors of the sky and the sea of Sorrento in the thirty-three white and blue decorations that Gio Ponti created in 1960 and now the Ceramica Francesco De Maio produced on the new technical support of Grès Maiolicato®, used for both indoors and outdoors, and of Grès Maiolicato® Antiscivolo R10 especially suitable for swimming pools.
Blu Ponti in Grès Maiolicato®. Gio Ponti's infinite blue combinations now enter a new innovative dimension.
Majolica by Authors. Tiles made of art and creativity, combined with the excellence of Italian design, give life to projects of high tailoring.
In these approximately two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ceramica Francesco De Maio has pursued ceramic research, managing to innovate its craftsmanship technologically without failing to use the still hand-made decoration piece by piece.
Collezione Carpet. Majolica tiles such as carpets or carpets made up of majolica tiles?
Overlapped ceramic carpets, softly laid inside or outside to bring the typical colours of Mediterranean houses. Chic and elegant majolica carpets. Caprese, Neapolitan and Vietri traditions, simple and essential lines, timeless hand decorations transformed into the design.
A new and modern style in the Carpet Collection by Ceramica Francesco De Maio, designed by Giuliano Andrea dell’Uva Architect.
The timeless lines of black and white and the typical brushstroke of the ‘50s blend everything with an innovation of wild fringes that invite you to sit on the floor as on a real carpet. Single or overlapped Carpet, they furnish the spaces, giving them a new style with an ethnic or single-coloured flavour.
The Carpet you want!
Combinations of fringes, edges and colours, give a special evolution to the oldest Vietri ceramic art. A Mediterranean flavour of colourful modular carpets, standard or customized, in order to adapt them to their needs of space and taste.
The main objective of Verde Verticale Collection by Ceramiche Francesco De Maio, is to let the natural essence of the Sentiero degli Dei (Path of the Gods) revive in your houses, recreating the typical atmosphere of nature, through suggestive floral wonders.
The essence of the natural spirit is the objective of the Verde Verticale Collection, by Ceramica Francesco De Maio, which recreates the typical atmospheres of nature through suggestive floral wonders, enriched by the black background, for a more decisive green mood.
The urban jungle style, which teaches us how to decorate with plants, is adapted to the Mediterranean style and, with the most fashionable floral patterns of the moment of the handpainted Verde Verticale Collection such as Tropical, Cactus, Jungle, Palm and Forest in the large size.
The main protagonist of the Verde Verticale Collection is the green of nature in its various shades and shades of colour now enriched by the variant of the black background that can be combined with the most modern furnishings for a green chic style.
The idea comes from the desire to leave a characteristic mark in the wide world of the jungle style and in particular, it tries to move the imagination on the Path of the Gods (Sentiero degli Dei), a fascinating hiking path that runs through the Amalfi Coast from Agerola to Positano. It is one of the ten most beautiful paths in the world: rich in pristine vegetation and characterized by breathtaking views over coastal landscapes overhanging the sea.
Majolica, objects and furnishings, in classics, modern and design style, that become ideal solutions for environments with a rigorous, elegant and welcoming mood.
The ceramic collections are more precious with the decorations executed entirely by hand by Master decorators in a perfect chromatic equilibrium.
A flurry of emotions, where the lathe gently caresses the clay between the turner’s hands, creating one of the greatest expressions of the ceramic art.
The Handmade Terracotta is classical support used by the Ceramica Francesco De Maio as the basis to glaze and to decor still preserved in the fabulous floors of the nobiliary eighteenth-century dwellings, called “Riggiole” tiles.
The Handmade Terracotta is classical support used by the Ceramica Francesco De Maio as the basis to glaze and to decor still preserved in the fabulous floors of the nobiliary eighteenth-century dwellings, called “Riggiole” tiles.
The Handmade Terracotta is classical support used by the Ceramica Francesco De Maio as the basis to glaze and to decor still preserved in the fabulous floors of the nobiliary eighteenth-century dwellings, called “Riggiole” tiles.
The Handmade Terracotta is classical support used by the Ceramica Francesco De Maio as the basis to glaze and to decor still preserved in the fabulous floors of the nobiliary eighteenth-century dwellings, called “Riggiole” tiles.
The Handmade Terracotta is classical support used by the Ceramica Francesco De Maio as the basis to glaze and to decor still preserved in the fabulous floors of the nobiliary eighteenth-century dwellings, called “Riggiole” tiles.
The Handmade Terracotta is classical support used by the Ceramica Francesco De Maio as the basis to glaze and to decor still preserved in the fabulous floors of the nobiliary eighteenth-century dwellings, called “Riggiole” tiles.
A timeless classic, especially in the typical 20x20 (8"x8") size, as the ceramic support of the eternal majolica collections of Francesco De Maio. Magnificent majolica made with the ancient technique of hand decoration that gives shape to elegant rugs and refined ceramic tapestries that stand out for their elegant shapes and timeless design.
Artistic majolica tiles made with the ancient technique of hand decoration that gives shape to elegant rugs and refined ceramic tapestries that stand out for their elegant shapes and timeless design.
Artistic majolica tiles made with the ancient technique of hand decoration that gives shape to elegant rugs and refined ceramic tapestries that stand out for their elegant shapes and timeless design.
Artistic majolica tiles made with the ancient technique of hand decoration that gives shape to elegant rugs and refined ceramic tapestries that stand out for their elegant shapes and timeless design.
Artistic majolica tiles made with the ancient technique of hand decoration that gives shape to elegant rugs and refined ceramic tapestries that stand out for their elegant shapes and timeless design.
Artistic majolica tiles made with the ancient technique of hand decoration that gives shape to elegant rugs and refined ceramic tapestries that stand out for their elegant shapes and timeless design.
Artistic majolica tiles made with the ancient technique of hand decoration that gives shape to elegant rugs and refined ceramic tapestries that stand out for their elegant shapes and timeless design.
Artistic majolica tiles made with the ancient technique of hand decoration that gives shape to elegant rugs and refined ceramic tapestries that stand out for their elegant shapes and timeless design.
Artistic majolica tiles made with the ancient technique of hand decoration that gives shape to elegant rugs and refined ceramic tapestries that stand out for their elegant shapes and timeless design.
The decorations are realized with taste and style, considering new colours combinations, with a very contemporary taste for urban and Mediterranean architectures. From the support in large sizes to the old majolica reissues, the craft skills and the passion for ceramic products melt together with the handmade decoration to create new customized products.
The decorations are realized with taste and style, considering new colours combinations, with a very contemporary taste for urban and Mediterranean architectures.
The decorations are realized with taste and style, considering new colours combinations, with a very contemporary taste for urban and Mediterranean architectures.
The decorations are realized with taste and style, considering new colours combinations, with a very contemporary taste for urban and Mediterranean architectures.
The decorations are realized with taste and style, considering new colours combinations, with a very contemporary taste for urban and Mediterranean architectures.
The decorations are realized with taste and style, considering new colours combinations, with a very contemporary taste for urban and Mediterranean architectures.
The decorations are realized with taste and style, considering new colours combinations, with a very contemporary taste for urban and Mediterranean architectures.
The decorations are realized with taste and style, considering new colours combinations, with a very contemporary taste for urban and Mediterranean architectures.
The decorations are realized with taste and style, considering new colours combinations, with a very contemporary taste for urban and Mediterranean architectures.
Handcraft knowledge and the high quality of Italian raw materials are the main points enshrined in the majolica tiles of Francesco De Maio. The ceramic tiles become the ideal solution for cosy and wraparound environments, which are made even more precious by a perfect chromatic equilibrium.
Handmade majolica tiles stands for elegance and impeccable design.
