Bitossi Bitossi

Bitossi is a historic Italian manufacturing identity, present since the second half of the 19th century in the Montelupo Fiorentino region of Tuscany. The Bitossi factory, now Bitossi Ceramiche, has been in the family for five generations and has been in the same location since 1921. In 2014, the company was entered in the Register of Historic Italian Companies. Bitossi production up to the end of the 1940s reflected the traditional taste associated with local production, then evolved into unique creations exported worldwide that still represent Made in Italy excellence today.

Aldo Londi was born in 1911 in Montelupo, Florence. He developed a passion for design at an early age, joining a ceramics factory at the age of 11. He followed an apprenticeship that ended with the outbreak of war. Between 1935 and 1943, Londi was a prisoner of war in South Africa. He returned to Italy and was appointed artistic director of the Bitossi ceramics company, a position he held for 50 years, creating over a hundred ceramic pieces for the company, including vases, animals, candlesticks and jugs. His most famous collection is undoubtedly the Rimini Blu line. An exceptional combination of glazes and layers of blue, in homage to the tones of the Mediterranean. Londi is a leading ceramist whose work is regularly cited in art magazines and books.