History

An inviting Italian boutique offering elegant gifts for your good taste. Bella Stanza, owned and operated by Jeanne Obenchain, is a dream-come-true boutique offering unique Tuscan and Deruta Italian ceramics, Murano glass accessories, music boxes from Sorrento, Florentine note paper, authentic Venetian masks.

A TRADITION OF ITALIAN CERAMICS

Majolica is a traditional Italian pottery. The clay's white background comes from a tin oxide which has been in use for hundreds of years.

Unlike other art forms such as paintings or tapestries, the decoration remains unfaded, just as it was when it left the potter's workshop.

One of the major production centers during the Renaissance was the central region of Italy, known today as Tuscany.

The Majolica pottery carried here at Bella Stanza is derived from the same materials (clay from Tuscany), techniques and traditions that artisans crafted in Italy five hundred years ago.

This may sound simple, but putting a design on a chalky surface with glazez of various consistencies is very difficult, and there is no room for a mistake, or the piece is ruined.