Fornace Curti

Fornace Curti is a terracotta workshop in Milan that has stayed in the hands of the same family of kiln makers since 1400, when Giosuè Curti supplied moulded bricks and tiles for the Ospedale Maggiore designed by Filarete and for the Certosa di Pavia. The family moved four times within the Porta Ticinese area before settling, in the early 1900s, at its current site in Via Tobagi 8.

The workshop still fires Lombard cotto by hand, producing floor tiles, bricks, vases and decorative pieces for restoration and new buildings, and it keeps a sala hobby where visitors can fire their own work. Artists have always used the kiln to fire sculpture and majolica, and some still keep studios inside the factory, which makes Fornace Curti one of the oldest continuously working kilns in Europe.