COTTO OGLIARA SHAPES AND FORMATS
In the vast collection of Terre Cotte, among the Cotto productions, we have that of the drawn product called “Ogliara” in honor of the town, Borgo di Salerno in the locality of Rufoli on Monte Stella, famous for the quarries of the typical clay known for its strength. With the simple processing of the four magical elements (earth, water, air and fire), the clay is worked in the die for loaves. The so-called “pettola” is worked with rollers or hand-sanded according to the desired surface and then cut into tiles. After air drying and subsequent firing, we obtain the pride product of our land, a zero kilometer tile with a pink color and ready to ring like a bell!
CLASSICO VIETRI
This is the collection that represents the tradional style and the themes of Vietri ceramics, both those dating back to 1600 and the more recent ones from the ‘60s and the ‘70s. Available in different sizes, from the most popular one 20x20, to 10x10, or floorboards, frames and the beautiful rosettes, these designs on the white glazing called bianco cava, create graceful threads enriching every surface and space. These decorations can be often found in period villas, ancient churches and monasteries around Campania, especially in Sorrento Peninsula, Amalfi Coast and the royal city of Naples. The ceramic decoration is the main feature of important and historical architectures, such as Certosa di Padula and the majolica cloister of Santa Chiara in Naples.costiera amalfitana e nella regale Napoli, ed il chiostro maiolicato di Santa Chiara a Napoli.
TRADIZIONE VIETRI
This collection is composed by some of the traditional and classic designs, revisited and reintroduced in new colours. One of our distinctive features has always been the bespoke product: choosing from our range of 25 colours, adding a touch of exclusivity and uniqueness, creating new armonies and identities to our decorations, so that to suit perfectly with the spaces where they are to be placed.
ANTICA ITALIA
Besides the historical Vietri decorations, this collection is about influences of nearby regions, especially within the old borders of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In this collection we put our emotional and chromatic interpretation to century-old designs. This way we succeded in creating new ornaments for any space requiring a cosy atmosphere just as the one that only ceramic can give and tayloring every single project with charme.
FORMA
The predominant themes of the decorations in this collection are geometric patterns and stylised flowers. As it often happens, these designs look modern at first, but their origin lays in the great casket of the ancient Vietri ceramic tradition. We have hence taylored a new suit to these designs using those colours which are sometimes secondary and subsidiary to the main ones such as copper green, blue, orange, typically used in classic Vietri decorations. Using cold colours, such as the grey range up to black, the warm tones like cream as far as manganese, we give a contemporary glamour, close to the tones used by interior designers who appreciate the strength and the elegance of the backgrounds of these beautiful decorations. The effect of these fine textures brighten up and give enthusiasm to any space, just as only our decorations can do.
RIEDIZIONI
(Re-editions) that’s the name of this monochrome collection where we propose old patterns, some of them dating back centuries ago. Thanks to the bianco craquelé, which produces a visible crackle on the ceramic surface, together with the unique dark manganese, that characterises the entire collection, the resulting designs are very elegant. Many like to use these designs to create patchworks, a custom from the postwar period, when the different tiles available were mixed up on the walls, a work still visible in some kitchens of old houses on the Amalfi Coast
ESAGONI
Pythagoras used to consider this ancenstral geometric figure as formed by two crossed triangles (hexagram) the symbol of creation. The hexagon is in fact at the basis of the figure making the flower of life. Hence just because of this aura of magic which surrounds this shape, the sophisticated decorations that we present, have each something wonderful that creates different threads when assembled, depending on the laying.
In the original symbolism the White colour is associated to light as a fundamental element, so as it is written in the myth of creation. Our offer of glazes goes from bright, opaque, glossy with crystals, bluish to metallic. They’re all the result of years of research and study of our laboratories to be able to offer our customers products that are unique and exceptional, suitable to any kind of decor and ambience.
PENNELLATI A MANO
A wide range of colours handmade by using large brushes, an age-old technique handed down to create colours on tiles. The main feature is the streak left by the brushes that give the tiles a direction. It is possible to lay the tiles either in the tradional way, that is basket weave pattern or according to the surface either horizontal or vertical.
SERIE MEDITERRANEO
This collection is strongly characterised by the iridescence of the glaze it is composed of a pale blue shade, a veil of sea can be found in each of the Mediterraneo range. Creamy uneven glazes, that darken the colour on the edges of the tiles, highlighting the pale blue shade, the series own identity.
SERIE MARI DELLA COSTA
Glazes with crystals that can have the craquelè typical of glass glazes, very beautiful, more than twenty colours inspired by the Mediterranean nature of Amalfi Coast. Thanks to their exceptional colour we find wide transparence and dept of surface that give unique emotions on terracotta. The depth of the glazing is enhanced by the white clay body.
SERIE SENSAZIONI
The Sensazioni collection is made of two types of glazes, an opaque and a glossy one with corresponding colours. Hence, there’s always a double version of each colour: matt e glossy. The matt version is particularly fashinating and it’s smooth and silky at the touch, in contrast to the glossy onewith its vitreous surface. The colour range is very close to the contemporary colours used in modern projects.
SERIE METALLICA
The exclusive and luxurious metallic effect of Gold, Lead and Copper are our sophisticated and precious proposal to give any living space prestige with majolica surfaces. The beauty of this collection is magnified on handmade terracotta bases creating results with a unique touch.
COTTO 3D
The history of embossed tiles originates from the Reinassance. Our collection is mainly based on geometric shapes. The reliefs create pleasant and glamourous plays of lights and shadows on the walls and the geometry of the 3D texture is delightful as well.
MOSAICI
The mosaic, in its version on stone, could already be found in Egyptian, Greek and Roman times. With the opus tessellatum they adorned the most beautiful villas in our nearby Pompeii and Ercolanum. The tiles, the gems and the little shapes of different forge that are part of our wide ceramic range, allow to mix up shapes, colours and glazings with scintillating results that are veru much appreciated on curve surfaces.
SERIE POSITANO
Bianco cava white glazing highlights the decorated contours riliefs with floral and geometric motifs. During the firing, the melting glazing slides towards the flat surface leaving the rilief almost transparent. The decorations in white are pleasant and graceful, smooth and charming the coloured ones. The collection comes with a series of borders, floorboards and accessories that complete the range and its modularity.
