<p>A beatific array of sweeping verdant plains, rolling hills and rocky outcrops might define the landscape of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy’s agro-industrial heartland. But one of the region’s most feted exports is, in fact, drawn from underneath it all. The...
<p>A beatific array of sweeping verdant plains, rolling hills and rocky outcrops might define the landscape of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy’s agro-industrial heartland. But one of the region’s most feted exports is, in fact, drawn from underneath it all. The exceptional abundance of clay in Emilia-Romagna’s subsoil has made it a global hub for the production of ceramics, and particularly porcelain; materials holistically woven, decoratively and practically, into everyday life for millennia.</p> <p>For over 60 years, <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/casalgrande-padana/3102193">Casalgrande Padana</a> – located in the titular town, a little west of Bologna in the shadow of the Apennines – has been at the fore of the region’s porcelain industry; manufacturing innovative, environmentally-friendly porcelain tiles for floors and walls, indoors and out, in timeless aesthetics and robust forms made to last for generations. It’s an approach exemplified in the company’s latest r…
