Tag: piato

  • Raise a Tambourine

    Ceramic plate with tarantella dancers from Santo Stefano di Camastra, now in my living room in New York City 

  • The Most Awesome Day: Taranta Sicily Fest

    If I could dream up the most awesome day, this would be it: August 20 in Scicli, the The Taranta Sicily Fest: A Tarantella music and dance festival in Sicily!!!! And the headliner is one of my favorite Italian artists and the leader of the Taranta Power movement: Eugenio Bennato. I mean, seriously. My two…

  • Seeing Red

    Ceramic plate in the traditional red-orange design style from Santo Stefano di Camastra.

  • Feast for the Eyes

    Ceramic plate, Caltagirone.

  • Ceramics with Spirit

    Susanna de Simone created this ceramic plate. She was born in Palermo in 1959, and from the time she was a child, has lived and breathed the art and technique of ceramics (Her father was a ceramist and her most influential mentor.). Her work, presented under the name La Fabbrica della Ceramica, can be seen…