Biordi Art Imports

Biordi Art Imports We love Italian ceramics! Biordi offers the the finest selection of handmade Italian ceramics and pottery in the United States.

Our shelves are lined with gorgeous majolica dinnerware from Deruta and colorful gifts imported from Italy.

06/17/2026

The Art of Living Italian

You don’t need a plane ticket to bring a little Italy home.

This table was inspired by the Italian appreciation for craftsmanship, simplicity, and everyday beauty.

Handmade ceramics, fresh lemons, and a meal shared outdoors.

The Italians call it sprezzatura—the art of making things look effortless, even when every detail has been thoughtfully considered.

I call it a beautiful evening around the table.

Many of the handcrafted pieces featured here are from Biordi Art Imports, including the oversized Il Mio Tavolo stoneware plates created in collaboration with chef Dena Marino. A San Francisco treasure for generations, Biordi has brought the artistry and craftsmanship of Italy to American tables for decades.

What’s one thing you love most about Italy?

Elevate your table. Celebrate the moments.

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Enjoy a frittata on one of Eugenio Ricciarelli 70 designs available Biordi Art Imports.
06/15/2026

Enjoy a frittata on one of Eugenio Ricciarelli 70 designs available Biordi Art Imports.

Eighty years on the same corner in North Beach. Three generations of the family running it. We have always thought of Bi...
06/14/2026

Eighty years on the same corner in North Beach. Three generations of the family running it. We have always thought of Biordi as half store, half neighborhood — and the part that keeps people coming back twenty years later, the part Colleen is writing about, isn’t the inventory. It’s the welcome.

If you’ve been meaning to come in, this is an invitation. 412 Columbus Avenue. We’re here all week.

biordi.com — or better yet, in person.

Save this for the next time you’re by SF’s North Beach.
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You can buy Italian ceramics anywhere. You only get this special service at Biordi.

Colleen F. left us this review last week:

“Deborah and the staff are always so helpful and accommodating. No finer selection of beautiful Italian ware!”

Eighty years on the same corner in North Beach. Three generations of the family running it. We have always thought of Biordi as half store, half neighborhood — and the part that keeps people coming back twenty years later, the part Colleen is writing about, isn’t the inventory. It’s the welcome.

If you’ve been meaning to come in, this is an invitation. 412 Columbus Avenue. We’re here all week.

biordi.com — or better yet, in person.

Save this for the next time you’re by SF’s North Beach.
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06/09/2026

An heirloom is a piece your grandchildren can name before they can read.

The Dolfi family has been creating Italian majolica in Tuscany for generations. Ivana Dolfi works out of a small Florence studio that her father — considered the best artisan of his time — built before her. She still mixes her own colors. She still paints freehand.

What makes Ivana’s centerpieces different is the obvious thing and the better-than-obvious thing. The obvious: she will create with your family’s images — children, grandchildren, the dog if you want.

Made to order from Florence.For anniversaries, weddings, housewarmings, the next grandchild’s images.

biordi.com → Dolfi.

Save this for the next big moment in your family.

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06/06/2026

Five patterns. One family. The most photographed dinnerware on every Italian table you’ve ever loved.

The Classic Deruta collection has been Biordi’s heart since 1946. Every piece is hand-painted in Deruta, Umbria — a town that has shaped European ceramics since the 1300s. The five patterns are all painted by hand on the same dinnerware forms, which is the quietly brilliant part of the whole system: every plate fits every other plate. Ricco can sit next to Antico. Orvieto can join Siena. Raffaellesco can anchor all of them.

Italian tables were never meant to match in the catalogue sense. They were meant to be collected. A piece from a wedding here. A piece from a grandmother there. A piece from a trip to Italy you keep meaning to take again.

Start with one pattern. Or mix two. Or build the whole family one piece at a time.

biordi.com → Classic Deruta.

Save this for when you start building your table.

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06/06/2026

Classic Deruta espresso cups — five patterns, all hand-painted in Deruta, Umbria, on the same forms. Ricco Deruta is an interpretation of a 16th-century design. Antico Deruta is the older, quieter cousin in gray and cobalt. Raffaellesco was named for Raphael himself. Orvieto carries the Green Rooster. Siena holds a small painted deer on red and black.

Each cup is painted freehand by a master ceramist in a Deruta workshop. Each one takes hours. Each one is signed.

$85 to $110, each made to order from Italy. The exact Father’s Day gift for the dad whose espresso routine is sacred — and one of the few gifts under $150 that he’ll still be using in 30 years.

biordi.com → Classic Deruta espresso cups.

Save this for the coffee person in your life.

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Deruta is a small Umbrian hill town that has painted maiolica since the 1300s. The patterns are old — Ricco Deruta is an interpretation of a 16th-century design. Antico Deruta is older still. Raffaellesco was named for Raphael. The artisans are not.

Every line on every plate is freehand. Six to eight hours per piece. No stencil. No transfer. No machine has ever touched one of these. The brush moves the way it moved 400 years ago because the people holding it learned it from someone who learned it from someone who learned it from someone.

This week we’re spending the whole week with Classic Deruta. The full slideshow of patterns lands Saturday.

biordi.com → Classic Deruta.

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06/02/2026

He didn’t save it for special occasions. It’s on his counter every morning. That is the highest compliment a hand-painted cup can get.

David ordered our La Colombe espresso cup and saucer. Then he wrote us this:

“This pretty little espresso cup and saucer is now in daily use. Thank you.”

That is the whole point. The La Colombe is from Biordi’s Caffé Collection — black and white, hand-painted in Deruta by the FIMA workshop, on the same forms as our Classic Deruta espresso cups. Each one is signed at the base.

It was made to be beautiful. It was built to be used. The fact that David reaches for it every morning instead of leaving it in a cabinet is exactly what 80 years of Italian ceramics is meant to do. Grazie, David.

biordi.com → La Colombe.

Save this for a kitchen worth using every day.

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The original Zacconi espresso machine was sold for years from a single shop in North Beach.Thomas Cara, Ltd. was a Polk ...
06/01/2026

The original Zacconi espresso machine was sold for years from a single shop in North Beach.

Thomas Cara, Ltd. was a Polk Street institution. For decades, if you wanted a real Italian lever espresso machine in San Francisco, you went there. When the original Zacconi family workshop closed in the 1990s, relatives resurrected it under a new name and Thomas Cara kept selling them. The shop has since closed. Their customers’ machines are still pulling shots in homes all over Northern California.

Now Zacconi is back — handcrafted in Milan, the same way it has always been done. Stainless steel and chrome you can see your face in. Brass internals. A spring lever that delivers eight to ten bars of pressure the way commercial machines do, scaled down to a kitchen counter.

It is the closest thing to a real Italian café in your home.

Biordi is now the exclusive San Francisco retailer. Each machine is made to order in Italy — six to eight weeks from your kitchen, by hand.

The Zacconi. biordi.com → Zacconi.

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