THE CERAMIC DISTRICT

“Ceramic ware has always been produced also in other Italian cities and foreign countries, so you ask yourself how and why the Ceramic District has been developed around Sassuolo. One of the most prestigious worldwide protagonists in the production of ceramic tiles, proud for its acknowledged leadership”.

To answer this question, Olimpia Nuzzi retraces by historical precision and an abundance of documents, the centuries-old occurrence of a territory that has built its productive vocation, in part to go along with the geological characteristics of the Secchia river grounds and in part – but mostly – by inventing and improving those techniques and instruments that have enabled the tile pioneers to outline new and winning enterprise borders. The author describes this articulated path with wide coverage and a large series of pictures its history and characters.