»Best Italian Home Decor Ideas
What are the best home decor pieces that help you to add an Italian touch to your own home?
Below are a few examples to create an Italian Home Decor or to add some Italian charm to your home.
- Maiolica: the Italian tin-glazed pottery, decorated in bright colours on a brilliant white background.
Deruta ceramics are among the most known Italian Maiolica. Traditional crafts from Deruta, medieval hilltown in Umbria, this ceramic is well-known for its highly characteristic local style and ancient tradition. Production of ceramics in Deruta began in the early Middle Ages, reaching its artistic peak in the 15th – 16th century, when Deruta produced the “Rafaellesque” ware decorated in a style of light arabesques and grottesche on a fine white ground.
Today, the finest Italian maiolica, are manufactured, as well as in Deruta, in Gubbio, Urbino and many other small towns in Umbria, Tuscany and central Italy.
Maiolica is something you should definitely add to the list to decor your home in Italian style.
- Murano Glass: art glass pieces made in the Venetian island of Murano, located off the shore of Venice.
Murano’s artisans create unique art glass pieces using a process of making glass which is rather complex with unique techniques, color combinations and forms. Authentic Murano glass is fabricated only in Murano by local glassmakers, historical brands worldwide known.
- Murano Lamps and Chandeliers: lamps, chandeliers, pendants and other lighting unique pieces incorporating Murano art glass.
- Tuscan home decor pieces: finest quality home decor items from Tuscany to add some Tuscan villa charm to your home (lamps, chandeliers and pendants with bronze finish, wrought iron, mirrors, tapestry, ceramics, Tuscan accent furniture etc…).
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