the Great Marcello Fantoni

Marcello Fantoni 1915-  received a master's in art in 1934, started working as a ceramist in 1937 and established the Fantoni Ceramic Studio winning awards at the Florentine Arts and Craft Exhibit in 1937.  During WWII he worked with the resistance.  After the war in he began to work with renewed vigor that led him to having over 50 collaborators in his shop a decade later.  Many of these became famous in their own right.

His work was in line with contemporary trend in the artistic world using innovative handling of materials, glazing and his colors.  His works were picked up by collectors of modern design and held among the collections in some of the most important museums all around the world.


  He worked in metal as well as in Ceramics.  iihenext decade the impressive size of over fifty collaborators