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Locality: Ferrone
address: Via Provinciale Chiantigiana 135-137
CAP: 50023
Phone: 055-207076
Fax: 055-207021
Email: info@sannini.it
Web site: www.sannini.it
It was established in 1910. At the beginning of the XX century, Carlo Sannini Baldassarri, notwithstanding the fact that he possessed only one of those small kilns used on estates, became one of the most important producers of cotto, taking from overseas new machines. In 1910 he founded the “Stabilimento Meccanico per la produzione di laterizi” (Mechanical Works for the Production of Brick), the first industrial factory for the manufacturing of cotto, dedicating himself to developing the quality of cotto. From 1950 he developed an important co-operation with the world of contemporary architecture. Still today this factory promotes research on new ways of employing cotto in order to provide designers with innovative uses for this material. Many of the best-known exponents of contemporary architecture (such as Mario Botta and Claudio Nardi and many others) co-operate with this factory. On Sannini’s web site we can find some contemporary architectural projects made with their materials. Aside from the hand made cotto, highly innovative products are made such as curtain walls as well as new materials for cladding in which clay is melted with special resins and natural quartzes.
In the factory some machines built at the beginning of the XX century are preserved, which can be considered industrial archaeological “findings”. Near the factory there is a clay quarry.
No direct sales.
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| Aree tematiche correlate: Terracotta Furnaces, Orcio pot, Conca vase, Vase, Objects, Statues, Pavement, Handmade, Factory |
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