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Solimene Art was founded in 2003 by my father together with my mother.

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The activity of ceramic manufacturing is handed down from family to family: my father, my grandfather

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and before that by my great-grandfather...everyone worked in ceramics!

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I am the fourth generation of ceramists.

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We work with ceramics and the sector we prefer is that of home and table furnishings.

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We make Majolica, a ceramic that is painted over glaze  

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Here the process is entirely manual and therefore

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we reflect the classic canons of handmade workmanship,

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but with an extremely contemporary vision of forms.

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Clay is the basic material that is modeled and worked; it is then dried and cooked

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After the first cooking

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the process of enamelling the piece, decoration takes place and we proceed with the second firing.

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Here we have one of the best products of our production, anchovies,

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In this case the decoration is developed using three brushstrokes

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of colour: blue, light blue and grey…with a few lines you have the detail!

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We sell abroad! The strongest markets are the Asian ones on the one hand

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and on the other we have North America

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where there are retailers who sell our products

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or it also happens that the sale is directed to private individuals  

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via our online shop

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which allows us to sell all over the world without problems.

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Today technology obviously also serves this purpose,

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it serves as a means to make your work known and accordingly

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we try to make the most of it.