Cotto since 1479. Handmade in Italy

It is said that De Martino family works the same clay from the end of 1400

(August 10th 1479 to be more precise, as stated in a deed preserved in the Benedictine Abbey of Cava dei Tirreni), using the same technique and the same furnaces at Rufoli di Ogliara, a small fraction of Salerno in Italy.

An ancient tradition
passed down through generations of “Mastri de’ Cotto” (Cotto Masters).
Forming, drying, cooking and squaring; always the same steps, the same artisan gestures.

Manual movements to create cotto

which can be admired in old buildings as Villa Doria Pamphili in Rome or modern contexts as a luxury boutique hotel in Manhattan's Bryant Park Hotel in New York .