Large scale ceramics production began in Pietrasanta in the 1950’s, with the Marchi and Bartolozzi companies who made ceramics for high quality religious art. The current heirs of this precious tradition today are an important (though not primary) impulse for the territory of the upper Versilia where work is based on manual labour.
Since the beginning the point of departure has always been rooted in the Tuscan tradition, an inexhaustible source of teachings and ideas which today’s craftsmen have renewed in order to create a vast production of majolica and terracotta, entirely modelled and decorated by hand. Items for everyday use and unique pieces: ornamental objects, like garden oil jars, design items, or those of a purely artistic bent, have quality as their outstanding feature, the result of historical research, the aesthetics of the day and the mastery of “made in Italy”. Always foremost in the minds of the craftsmen is the fact that Pietrasanta is very much a centre for major artists looking for master craftsmen of great experience whom they can rely on to make their works.