The company Caleca Italia, headquartered in Patti, Sicily, a short distance from the archeological site of Tindari and facing the archipelogo of the Eolian Islands, produces beautiful hand-painted ceramics with the trademarks CALECA and CALECA & Co.

Caleca is also the name of a family that for more than 250 years continues to produce with grand maestry the most modern ceramics in the unimitable style distributed throughout the world.  Already in the 1800’s the increasing span of ceramic dinnerware in the city of Patti, shipments were made in all parts of the Mediterrean territory and even to North Africa on board of pot-bellied vessels to the point of reciting the noted phrase:

The propulsive heart of Caleca Italia is Rossana Giacalone Caleca, wife of Gaetano Caleca, direct descendant of the founder of the company CALECA…

After an intense activity of the profession of a penal attorney, Rossana Giacalone Caleca, mother of Francesca, 9 years old, and Umberto, 5 years old, regained the family trademark and established Caleca Italia S.r.l. to relaunch the manufacturing of ceramics Made in Sicily and created original cultural projects that blend entrepreneur activities with patronage skills.  In the headquarters of the modern Sicilian facilities, the entire productive line is realized, including the projection, the creation, and the development of designs, together with the commercialization, without ever once neglecting the research and the quality standards entrusted to its internal laboratory.

The success of the ceramics for the tabletop and of the CALECA house is attributed to the special robustness of the clays used, result of updated and new research, besides the particular characteristics of colors being rigorously non-toxic and above all in the patterns that synthesize with personality the solarity with the illumination of a Mediterranean impressionably rich.  Behind each hand-decorated piece is the ability, discipline, inspiration and the fantasy of whom has fabbricated every individual article and even contributed a part of his heart and soul in its creation.  The recuperation of Italian good-nature of the inclination of beautiful objects that endure in time is the operative theme that guides as always the Caleca family.

The company has recently inaugurated a new section called “The Tiles of Caleca” dedicated to the production of tile for wall coverings and pavements rogorously hand-decorated.  The Caleca plates are used by the most prominent Italian chefs, which conduct the refined and exclusive courses of culinary research.  The ceramics of Caleca are sold and available in all parts of the world, in addition to the possibility of placing orders on-line from our official web site, from the most prestigous Italian stores, from the direct stores “Caleca & Co.” and from the beautiful company outlet store of Patti.

Caleca Italia cooperates with institutes of Industrial Design of numerous faculties of Italian architecture and with several important European museums in the cultural project sector, created by Rossana Giacalone Caleca, with the impressive name “Artists in the Plate”, an International exhibit of ceramics of authors whose destination is to create a museum of ceramics, autographed by the great contemporary masters and dedicated to Cavaliere Umberto Caleca, primate of the famous family for the purpose of connecting to the world of art.

The Caleca products are the concentration of Made in Italy, totally manufactured and developed in Italy by Sicilian artisans, who through their own hands and with the auxiliary instruments of brushes and colors harmoniously transpire the antique art of working ceramics manually and to respond with mademoiselle Chanel that “with hands it is possible to do everything.”  A masterpiece of Caleca production are its plates, produced in the diverse patterns of the Caleca house, which represent the flower in the lapel of the entire hand-made production.  It is possible to readily recognize a Caleca plate among a thousand others.