Frommer's Review
Though lots of ceramics shops line Via di Città, they're
mainly only of souvenir quality. The work of Ceramiche
Artistiche Santa Caterina, with showrooms at Via di Città
51, 74, and 76 (0577-283-098) and a workshop outside town at
Via P.A. Mattioli 12 (0577-45-006), is not. Maestro Marcello
Neri trained at Siena's art school and in the ceramics
workshops of Montelupo Fiorentino, Tuscany's foremost ceramics
center, before taking over this studio in 1961, aided by his
talented wife, Franca Franci, and now their adult son, Fabio,
also an art school grad. Look especially for their wares
painted in "Sienese style" using only black, white, and terra
di Siena reddish brown (what we call burnt sienna) with designs
inspired by the oldest pavement panels in the Duomo.
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