Some photos of the 2023 Castellamonte Ceramics Exhibition
Here is a small photographic sample of the Castellamonte Ceramics Exhibition, 2023 edition, open until 10 September!
Rotonda Antonelliana
Our Factory
The town hall arcades
62nd Castellamonte Ceramics Exhibition
We are waiting for you at the 62nd edition of the Ceramics Exhibition, from Saturday August 19 until Sunday September 10 2023.
La Castellamonte will participate in the exhibition by opening the doors of the Company for the duration of the exhibition, including weekends, and with the exhibition of ceramic sculptures. It will also be possible to admire our stoves in an installation in the arcades of the Municipal Palace of Castellamonte, which will frame our products.
We are waiting for you!
For group visits, over 10 people, reservations are required.
62nd Castellamonte Ceramics Exhibition
August 19 > September 10, 2023
La Castellamonte
Via Casari 13
10081 Castellamonte (TO), ITALY
Showroom Castellamonte
Piazza Martiri della Libertà 24
Castellamonte
To book your visit
Email: info@lacastellamonte.it
Telefono: 0039 (0)124 581690
Exhibition Poster
More Information here (ITALIAN)
Summer Break 2023 - 24/07 to 16/08
Our factory will be closed from 24/07 to 16/08 inclusive: answers to your inquiries and messages may arrive more slowly than usual, but we will try to reply as soon as possible.
Happy summer to all of you!
Derstandard.at features RoundStack
The online magazine Derstandard.at features RoundStack in its selection of elegant wood stoves.
All shipments are now even safer
The shipment of our products is the last step but, as always, we put in it all our attention.
Ensuring that our products reach you intact, in all their elements, is part of our quality promise.
For this reason we have decided to pack them with the utmost care, in modular wooden crates, with:
- protective materials and shockproof fillings
- signaling stickers
- crate tilt monitoring systems
- systems for monitoring sudden movements and falls from heights during transport
All crowned by a cone-cap to prevent the crates from being overlapped... and in the trust for our couriers.
So, here are our specialists at work and, after a few hours of work, your stoves, packed and ready to go!
Our production is even more sustainable thanks to solar energy!
We've been thinking about it for a long time and we've finally managed to carry out a very important project: using solar energy for our production, a choice of responsibility and environmental sustainability that we want to share, because it excites us.
In this moment of historical-social difficulty and problems in obtaining energy, we have decided to invest in a photovoltaic system with the aim of making ourselves as energy-independent as possible.
Today we can proudly say that, thanks to the large paneling that covers our factory, our Company reaches high levels of self-consumption. This allows us to guarantee continuity of production and make it more sustainable.
Thanks to those who chose us making all this possible!
And thanks to Solerà, the Canavese Company that followed us from the project to the construction of the plant, with commendable seriousness and professionalism.
Photo gallery
Decorations: colors and precious metals
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All the decorations of our stoves have always been handmade, by an expert decorator, with colors or metallic paints, and applied following the frieze of the stove's ceramic or on smooth surfaces, to further enrich the aesthetics of the stove.
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The decorations with color can be performed exclusively on light bases, for example white, cream or celadon, both glossy and opaque: during the second firing, the glaze, with a glass base, melts and acquires its transparency allowing the decoration to emerge and fix on the ceramic surface.
The characteristics of the decorations, colors and design, are agreed with the customer who will be free to choose between our classic proposals or provide his own ideas, further personalizing the product.
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The decorations with metallic paints, of real gold and real platinum in an enamel solution, unlike the color, are applied with "third firing", that is after the enamelling and with a third passage in the kiln.
For an optimal result these decorations are applied only on certain enamels, for example the light base ones, the reds and some blue ones.
During firing, the gold or platinum decoration blends with the enameled surface acquiring its finish: it will be shiny when applied to shiny enamels and, in the same way, it will become opaque when combined with a matte enamel.
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Happy holidays and Best Wishes for a Happy 2023
To all of you, who follow and support us, a warm wish for Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year 2023!
We take this opportunity to remind you that our factory will be closed on December 24, 25, 26, and then from December 30 to January 8, included.
So, to 2023!
The production of our pellet stoves has been suspended
Due to the difficulties of the present historical-economic moment, in finding some components and electrical parts, we are forced to suspend again the production of our pellet stoves, until further notice.
The ordered stoves will be completed but we will not be able to acquire new orders until the situation has normalized again.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
For any information you can write to us at: info@lacastellamote.it.
Surfaces that change over time
The surfaces of our products, made of glazed ceramic, smooth, decorated or with friezes, in principle, can have two types of finish, glossy or matte: for the glossy finish we use mixtures with high percentages of glass (crystalline) while for the opaque one, mixtures with opacifying components.
In both cases, what most characterizes them is the "Cracklè" effect, typical of glazed 'refractory' ceramics. This effect, visually similar to micro cracks in the surface, at first sight very evident on the gloss, but absent on the matt finish, derives from a real behavior of the refractory ceramic, which expands when heated and then shrinks during cooling.
This "movement" of the material, imperceptible to the eye, is actually the cause of Cracklè.
In stoves with a glossy finish, this texture is already present at the exit from the cooking oven and will tend to change over time with the use of the stove, becoming more and more dense while, in stoves with matt paint, the surface is initially smooth and without marks and then formed with the transition from hot to cold due to the use of the product.
This is the magic of glazes, and of ceramics, which will change by heating your homes.