Bitossi Gold
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Fabric
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Gold
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Fabric
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Gold
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
20th Century American Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Gold
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Vases
Pottery
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bookends
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Decorative Boxes
Wood
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
Gold
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Silk, Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Italian Decorative Bowls
Pottery
Vintage 1960s Italian Brutalist Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
20th Century Italian Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps
Gold
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Ceramic
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Gold Plate
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Pottery
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Clay
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Gold, Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Pottery
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic
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Bitossi Biography and Important Works
Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vintage vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass.
The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.”
But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. Starting in the 1950s, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis postmodern design collective in Milan, Sottsass used the Bitossi kilns to create timeless works that manifest both primitive forms and modern geometries. In later decades, Bitossi would welcome new generations of designers, which have included such names as Ginevra Bocini and Karim Rashid. While always looking forward, Bitossi is firm in their belief that mastery of craft is the first step towards beautiful design. As you will see from the works offered on these pages, that is a winning philosophy.
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