Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

Tesoro pedestal vase – Rometti

 

 

The Ceramiche Rometti maison (house) has been active in Umbertide, Italy since 1927. Rometti was one of the first in Italy, in the early thirties, to move away from the traditional figurative neo-Renaissance and late Italian Liberty style to pursue the innovative ideas of avant-garde art and international design. Founders Settimio and Aspromonte Rometti guided the venture to successfully implement some of the finest components of contemporary design, creating products that combined research and creativity.

 

‘The Sower’ — Corrado Cagli

 

Today, constant experimentation is a hallmark of the Rometti workshops, in which complex and sophisticated production techniques are adapted to the specific characteristics of their earthenware, stoneware or porcelain products. As regards to majolica, for example, Rometti has always used an age old method: objects shaped by hand on the wheel are painted and “frescoed” before being baked ; a special plaster bringing out the colours and giving depth to the decorations. A mixture of the purest raw materials is used to create extremely fine porcelain. Natural clay is taken from a local quarry, whose origins date back to Roman times. The various production phases in the workshops require highly specialized manual operations such as moulding, shaping, casting, enamelling by immersion or spray, and painting. These high quality products are exclusively hand-made and are never exactly alike.

 

Dante Baldelli Vase for Rometti

Umbertide, circa 1930

 

During its early conception Rometti attracted the talents of futurist artists such as Fortunato Depero, and Giacomo Balla. Also works of stylized figuration, sometimes visionary, playful and bizarre were created by artists of the caliber of Corrado Cagli and Dante Baldelli. Other prestigious collaborators that contributed to Rometti were painter and sculptor Giovanni Ciangottini and Leoncillo Leonardi in the forties. Today , Rometti has a team of contemporary designers that collaborate with the company including Monica Poggia, Liliane Lijn, Ambrogio Pozzi, Chantel Thomas and Jean Christoph Clair.
Rometti has been in continual production now for 90 years and has imbibed a diversity of ceramic influences including the genres of Art Deco, Futurism, Bauhaus and Modernist, all infused with the unique and distinctive Rometti interpretation. Its contemporary creations continue their rich tradition of innovation and visionary flair.

 

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Bowl Doppiapresenza trigono – Rometti

 

 

Rometti ceramic vases

 

 

 

Rometti Display

2017

 

 

Jean Christoph Clair — ‘Eau De Terre’ – Rometti

 

 

 

Ceramic liqueur set – Rometti

 

 

‘Tesoro’ sgraffito vase – Rometti

 

 

‘Cilindro Lampada’ – Monica Poggia

 

 

 

Rometti  teapot

 

 

‘Scacchi’ – Dante Baldelli , Rometti chess vase

1930-32

 

 

 

Rometti factory Umbertide, Italy

 

 

Horse riding hunters vase – Corrado Cagli, Rometti

 

 

 

Rometti – ‘Tartaruga Nero Vase’ – Jean Christoph Clair

Presenza Sciamana  (Shaman Presence) series

2017

 

Corrado Cagli- ‘The March on Rome’ ceramic vase

1929-1930

 

 

 

Rometti – Tangerine ceramic Liqueur set

 

 

 

Antelopi ovoid vase – Rometti

 

 

Rometti ceramic artist

 

 

‘Sfere Cosmos’– Jean Christoph Clair

 

 

Red vase with gold bands – Rometti

 

 

Rometti ‘Vaso Tartaruga Bianco’ (White Turtle Vase) ) – Jean Christoph Clair

2017

 

 

Rometti Retia vase

 

 

‘Primitivo’ set -Rometti

 

 

‘Presenza’ head vase – Rometti

 

 

Desktop accordion player pen stand – Rometti

 

 

Pescatori ‘Fishermen’ – Corrado Cagli – Rometti

 

 

 

‘Medusa’ – Dante Baldelli

1936

 

 

Corrado Cagli, Dante Baldelli, Ceramic plate – ‘March on Rome’ 

1929-1930,

 

 

Ovoid s ‘Hunters’ vase – Rometti

 

 

Dante Baldelli Futurist Vase – Rometti, 30’s

 

 

Jean Christoph Clair – ‘Sfere Kosmos’ – Rometti

 

 

 ‘Labirinto’ vase – Rometti

 

 

 

‘Le Arti’ vase – Rometti

 

 

Ceramic liqueur pourer – Rometti

 

 

Black and white Futuro Vase

 

 

‘Foret 2 ‘  – Cedric Ragot

 

 

 

Rometti ceramic carafe bottle with stopper

 

 

 

Rometti vase

 

 

Dante Baldelli Ceramic Vase

 

 

‘Damier’ – Rometti

 

 

 

Corrado Cagli – ‘Umbrian Landscape’

1930

 

 

Corrado Cagli plate, 1930’s

 

 

Corrado Cagli mermaids and fish plate

 

 

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‘Carlos’ ceramic table – Rometti

 

 

Umbria landscape cache pot – Corrado Cagli, Rometti

 

 

 

‘Ecaille’ —Jean Christoph Clair

 

 

‘Il Calciatore‘  Cache Pot – Rometti

 

 

‘Diabolo’ – Jean Christoph Clair

 

 

 

‘Konas’ – Liliale Lijn

 

 

 

Rometti liqueur set

 

 

 

Vaso ‘Marin’ — Rometti

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Sergio Fiorentino— ‘Tuffatore’ footed floral motif campote -Rometti

 

 

‘Rose Vase Volupté’ – Chantal Thomass for Rometti

 

 

Sergio Fiorentino— ‘Tuffatore’ footed floral motif vase -Rometti

 

 

‘Totem’ – Jean Christoph Clair

 

 

 

Rometti

 

 

‘Cocteau’ series for Rometti – Jean Christoph Clair

 

 

 

Il lavoro dei campi

 

 

Rometti ceramicists

 

 

‘Cavalli’ vase decorated with stylized horses by Dante Balldeli for Rometti

Majolica glazed terracotta, 1938

 

 

 

 

 

‘Fisherman’ ceramic plate – Corrado Cagli

 

 

‘Allegoria‘ – Rometti

 

 

‘Arancia E Vasellame’ by Corrado Cagli

1961

 

 

Rometti footed vase –  ‘Working in the fields’

 

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