Madlen Ceramics

Madlen Ceramics is the atelier of Cristina Firotto, a ceramic designer who lives and works in Rome. She opened the laboratory in 2018, coming to clay from a background in architecture and building engineering, and keeps a studio in Trastevere at Via Angelo Bellani 30, alongside the atelier address on Via di Ponziano.

The name is borrowed from Proust’s madeleines, chosen for the way a taste can open a memory, and the practice is built on what the site calls a therapeutic slowness. Collections such as the weightless series accept the irregularities of the material and work on solids and voids, letting light enter every crack. The studio also teaches courses and workshops and rents its pieces for events and set design through the Re-Loved service.