Messina ceramics by Ghenos

Ghenos has a real talent for traditional Sicilian pottery art, as you can see from their handcrafted decoration accents, large sized murals and ceramic floor & wall tiles.
Their awesome panels can be used in multiple ways, such as

• framed and hung on the wall
• installed as free standing murals, both into a tiled and on a painted surface
• used as table tops, on a solid wooden or wrought iron base 
• installed as floor panels or “tiled rugs” surrounded by hardwoods or plain colored tiles to highlight a specific area in any room (for ex. in front of a cosy fireplace)

They will transform any kitchen backsplash, bathroom, foyer, fireplace or wine cellar into an artistic statement. 

Product availability: if not in stock, Ghenos’ pottery is available in 5/8 weeks.
Product information: The ceramic decoration accents made by Ghenos are to be used for decoration purpose only. 
Tiles for panels, murals and table tops are numbered on the back and run from left to right, top to bottom. They can be a Do-It-Yourself project, although we recommend a professional tile setter.  It is not mandatory to grout tiles, unless in a shower application. However, grouting will contribute to the uniformity of the surface. More info on tiles, tile murals and floor panels can be found in the relevant product pages.  
Contact us with your special project and we’ll help you to make it come true.

Ghenos's products

• Ghenos Decoration
• Ghenos Tiles

Know more about Ghenos

Ivan and Vincenzo Scardino are two young brothers from Messina, Sicily. Both have a knack for arts and crafts, Vincenzo being more into pottery making and Ivan loving his carpenter job. They have joined effort and started to create objects where wood and ceramics are originally combined, often in the sizes and shapes requested by interior designers or architects. 

In 2003 they founded their own studio and decided to call it Ghenos, a Greek word meaning origins.
Indeed, a deep knowledge of traditional Sicilian art is at the heart of their craftsmanship and each and every work they make is a personal rendering of designs and technique belonging to their native land.

We were particularly impressed by their tiles and panels. Nowhere else in Italy one can find such rich designs. Every brush stroke there evokes Sicily. You watch them and you see the huge ballrooms of antique villas, their Baroque statues, the air thick with the smell of orange blossoms…

Vincenzo studied many years to learn the secrets of Sicilian pottery, first in Messina, then in Reggio Calabria and Santo Stefano di Camastra. He is an excellent painter, not surprisingly favoring Baroque designs, istoriati and “metamorphosis”, subjects where human shapes blend into animal or vegetal shapes.

Recently the Uffizi Gallery in Florence commissioned him a large istoriato urn. Not a bad start for a young artist, isn’t it?