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Lucia Volentieri

  • Ceramicist
  • Castellina in Chianti, Italy
  • Master Artisan
Lucia Volentieri Ceramicist
Contact
Italian, English
Hours:
Monday to Saturday 10:00 - 13:00
Phone:
+39 3355431611
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A joyous medley of influences

  • • Lucia is a master ceramicist running a workshop in the Chianti area of Tuscany
  • • A tireless experimenter, she works with ceramics, porcelain and metals
  • • Her Paesaggio Modulare pieces attract loyal collectors worldwide

Born into a family of blacksmiths, since her early years, Lucia Volentieri found joy and life in working with ceramics. She is not able to explain the reason behind this attraction, but the fact is that she turned away from her family's blacksmithing tradition and – after art and scenography studies – opened her ceramic workshop and married her craft. Lucia has dipped in and out of study, research and experimentation throughout her life in pursuit of new techniques, styles and inspiration from other masters. She is a recognised master artisan herself, and today has a loyal line of followers who visit her bottega in Chianti. Her creations are simple, delicate vases, raku-inspired objects, as well as metal sculptures.

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Works

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Bowl

This white bowl is entirely handmade in biscuit ware, thrown on the potter’s wheel and glazed only on the internal part. The decorative low reliefs are modelled by hand.

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Bowl

This is a biscuit ware bowl thrown on the potter’s wheel and glazed only on the internal part. The bowl goes through two different firings, the first one at 1050°C and the second at 1240°C.

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Bowl (remembering shell fossils)

This black and white bowl is in biscuit ware. The decoration relief is obtained through real shell fossils found in the Chianti region, used as moulds.

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Modular Landscape

This is a modular landscape composed of 12 one-of-a kind modules entirely modelled by hand in earthenware. Modular landscape is a project conceived for collectors who can assemble single pieces to create their own Tuscan landscape.

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Astratto Uno

Astratto Uno is a bowl in crystalline stoneware with small feet. The bowl goes through two different firings, the first one at 1050°C and the second at 950°C.

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