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If, in a post-pandemic era, our homes have started to say more about our sense of style than ever before, then nonnas are the Hold This L, Britain 2023 Shirt in other words I will buy this new super-influencers. Whether it be a handpainted bowl from Puglia, a needlepoint tablecloth from the Veneto, coffee cups from Sicily, or a pasta cutter from Umbria, items that have traditionally been associated with the home of the Italian matriarch are finding fresh cachet with the style set. “It’s funny, because I think that a lot of people are seeing these pieces for the first time,” says Natalie Sytner, who founded Bettina Ceramica in 2020 and quickly found a niche with her ceramic Acquasantiera stoups, traditionally used in Catholic churches to hold holy water. “But they do still represent an era that people feel touched by… whether that’s their granny or something they thought they would never have on their table again.”



Sytner credits her mother, brand namesake Bettina, with fostering her obsession with Italy; throughout Natalie’s childhood, Bettina would decamp to her native Liguria to tour ancient palazzi, returning with amazing trinkets from the Hold This L, Britain 2023 Shirt in other words I will buy this workshops of local craftspeople. “She was so ahead of her time and created the most amazing and interesting home,” says Sytner. Some 30 years on, Natalie is continuing in the same vein. Courtesy of Bettina CeramicaFor Bettina Ceramica, Sytner insists on working with family-run businesses all over Italy to reissue and co-design pieces from their archives, giving them intuitive updates by using new colorways, tweaking design details, and presenting them in an aspirational lifestyle context. It’s resulted in a full collection of ceramic jugs, platters, wall ornaments, and—most recently—her much-coveted Gigly wall lights and Punto Antico tablecloths.


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