A woman places cherry tomatoes on a blue splattered ceramic plate that also has cheese, prosciutto, and crackers. There are bowls of different types of olives and a bowl of pistachios, along with a large blue ceramic pitcher and smaller bowls, all set on a white fabric surface.

Elevate the Everyday

Pietra Handmade is a love letter to Puglia — its authenticity, its craft, and the unhurried beauty of gathering around a table. Founded by two partners, one who grew up there and one who chose it as her own, each piece is handcrafted by master artisans in Southern Italy, rooted in heritage forms and colored by the landscape.

Small-batch and bold, made to be mixed, matched, and loved daily.

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In Italy, this joyful style is called schizzato, meaning “splashed”and sometimes affectionately understood as a little crazy. Rooted in Puglian tradition, schizzato began as a way to bring life and color to everyday ceramics. Applied entirely by hand, the paint is splattered freely across each piece—historically using simple tools like brushes, herbs, or even olive branches dipped in pigment. The result is lively, expressive, and intentionally unpredictable. Each splatter is unique, each piece a one of a kind reflection of the artisan’s hand and spirit. Made to be mixed, matched, and loved daily, and put in the dishwasher!

Splatter Serveware Collection 

The Terra Collection is inspired by the earth-tone landscapes of Puglia - sunbaked clay, the dry earth of the olive grove, and the warm glow of terracotta sunsets. Each piece is hand-thrown and hand-glazed, with layered bands of natural color that reflect soil, stone and fading light. The ivory and earthen glazes overlap, drip, and blend, creating a soft transition where the color meets and hues collide. Subtle varations in tone and edge are part of the process, no dripping can be exactly re-produced ensuring that every piece carries its own character and no two look exactly alike.

Terra Collection

The Puglia Verde Collection celebrates the rich, bold greens and blues of Puglia—olive groves, wild figge d’India and aloe plants, and the deep color of nature where land meets sea. This rich, drip look uses a traditional engobio technique, layers of liquid clay slip are poured and allowed to drip freely over each hand-thrown form. This process creates depth, movement, and variation in tone, with no two pieces ever the same. In Italian, this saturated palette is known as verde intenso—a living, expressive green. Designed for vibrant homes and tables, Puglia Verde is made to be noticed with each piece as unique as its owner.

Puglia Verde Collection 

  • A man with short gray hair working on a pottery wheel in a pottery studio, wearing a white shirt and a green apron covered in clay.
  • A table with a yellow and white striped tablecloth, displaying two ceramic vases and a lemon. The first vase is tall with a handle, decorated with red and white splatter pattern. The second vase is smaller, round with a handle, featuring a yellow and white speckled pattern and a cork stopper. A lemon is placed on the table near the vases. In the background, there is a yellow curtain and part of a green curtain.
  • Person holding a bowl of fresh lemons, wearing a floral dress.
  • A woman in a teal dress walking past Trulli-style white stone houses with conical roofs, surrounded by potted plants and autumn foliage.

About

Pietra Handmade is rooted in the landscapes and rhythms of Puglia and the Hudson Valley — two places we call home, where beauty is shaped by nature, meals are shared generously, and everyday objects are made to last.

Founded by two partners — one who grew up among Puglia’s olive groves and sunlit coastlines, one who arrived and never wanted to leave — Pietra Handmade was born from a deep belief that this way of life, and the ceramics that are part of it, deserved to be shared more widely. Handcrafted by master artisans in Southern Italy, our bold forms and vibrant colors are expressions of individuality, rooted in tradition and made with respect for the craft and the people behind every piece.

Made to be used daily, mixed freely, and lived with over time — carrying the spirit of home wherever they land.

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White stucco wall with colorful painted blue and green door, flanked by three potted cactus plants on a concrete ground under a clear blue sky.
Outdoor patio scene with large terracotta pots, potted trees, wicker baskets, and colorful ladders leaning against a white textured wall.

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We’d love to hear from you! We work with retail partners on a wholesale basis and create custom dinnerware sets for private clients. If you’re interested in partnering with Pietra Handmade, please email us below and we will be touch shortly!

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