Main Office /
Warehouse
851 Enterprise Way, Fullerton, CA 92831 Map
Phone: 714-808-0134 Fax: 714-808-0141
Main Office Hours:
7:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. (PST)
Monday thru Friday eMail
Sannini
Sannini is one of the most important manufacturers in the field of cotto. Its imposing industrial production is based on the most advanced technologies without compromising the specific naturalness of terracotta or its precious simplicity. The vocation for machinery from the early 1900s continues today in the search for a technology which in no way impoverishes the culture of terracotta, but rather serves to protect and exalt it. In the last few years, Sannini has encouraged the study and experimentation of new products which, thanks to the utilization of advanced technologies, are able to provide planners with "widened" opportunities for innovation in their architectural language. It is a fact that several of the internationally most important architects have recently turned to the use of terracotta in order to clad the facades of important buildings, thus enabling the re-launch of a material which is rich in historic significance, as well as being extremely versatile in an architectural planning which can no longer choose to ignore advanced technology. This material, which was among the most well-known in the past, tends to be used nowadays, apart from its primary, vertical building mass, more and more also decorative and technical cladding purposes. It is this modified usage which has led to continuous evolution and research in the sector of its production; a process in which Sannini Impruneta has chosen to take a major role.
Tanglewood's Conservatory Production Teams are heirs to a 300 Year Old Craft and Woodworking Tradition. Tanglewood Conservatories' Co-Founder and Director of Architecture Alan Stein relates his deep respect for the talent of each conservatory architect and artisan: "I'm a woodworker from way back. As a carpenter, I built houses before taking up architecture or conservatory design. I like to work with my hands. When I started the company years ago, I could do anything our team could do. I would often pick up a tool, and show them how to do it."
"Those days are long gone," Stein continues. "Now when I take complicated conservatory designs to our production department, the team tells me how they would like to build them. It's a group that exudes a real 'can do' energy and enthusiasm."
Tanglewood Design:
Something new underfoot: Ceramica Vogue's brilliant glazed Italian ceramic tiles fairly glow against Sannini's earhy terra-cotta tiles (from Impruneta, in the hills south of Florence)
Quarry Tile 
Map
eMail
Sannini is one of the most important manufacturers in the field of cotto. Its imposing industrial production is based on the most advanced technologies without compromising the specific naturalness of terracotta or its precious simplicity. The vocation for machinery from the early 1900s continues today in the search for a technology which in no way impoverishes the culture of terracotta, but rather serves to protect and exalt it. In the last few years, Sannini has encouraged the study and experimentation of new products which, thanks to the utilization of advanced technologies, are able to provide planners with "widened" opportunities for innovation in their architectural language. It is a fact that several of the internationally most important architects have recently turned to the use of terracotta in order to clad the facades of important buildings, thus enabling the re-launch of a material which is rich in historic significance, as well as being extremely versatile in an architectural planning which can no longer choose to ignore advanced technology. This material, which was among the most well-known in the past, tends to be used nowadays, apart from its primary, vertical building mass, more and more also decorative and technical cladding purposes. It is this modified usage which has led to continuous evolution and research in the sector of its production; a process in which Sannini Impruneta has chosen to take a major role.
Sannini Factory, Impruneta-Florence, Italy 
Tanglewood Design:
