Ceramic half pine cone from Santo Stefano di Camastra

Handcrafted ceramic Half Pinecone with a colored base, made by the skilled hands of artisans from Santo Stefano di Camastra.

Height:

• 10 cm with a diameter of approximately 6.5 cm
• 12cm with a diameter of approximately 8 cm

Available colors: 4 variations

Each piece is unique, and any apparent "imperfection" guarantees it even greater uniqueness.

Created and handcrafted in Sicily, Italy

Did you know that...

For few other places like Sicily, talking about "typical products" is like embarking on a journey within a journey, encountering artisan crafts that
unveil perspectives of time and suggest images of places. S. Stefano di Camastra is important in the field of craftsmanship; it is the
largest ceramic production center in Sicily, and also represents one of the most interesting traditional tourist itineraries, and
is also called the "village of ceramics." This is how this very active center, on the borders of the provinces of
Palermo and Messina, is best known throughout the world.

Having assimilated the techniques of colors and glazes from Neapolitan artisans, they would, throughout the 19th century, create countless series of majolica tiles
that, due to their originality, are an expression of a precise moment in the history of art in Sicily. The birth of true ceramic art
can be traced back to the early 1900s when production shifted from an exclusively economic output of
terracotta objects such as vases, jars, "quartare and bummuli" to artistic ceramics, which became increasingly refined over the years and
today constitutes the main pillar of the Stefanesi economy.
A peculiar village, unique of its kind: everywhere you look, you see plates, tiles, mosaics, all made of very colorful
ceramics.

The production of ceramic objects in Santo Stefano di Camastra began about three hundred years ago, as aresult of a calamitous event that destroyed the original location of the village, forcing its inhabitants to move to a newlocation further downstream. The need to build new homes led the Stefanesi people to exploit a material abundant in the area: clay.

Alongside traditional production, a certain diversification has developed, mainly driven by young companies eager to enterthe system with a certain degree of product innovation.