The Farmers Market in Italy (and elsewhere) isn't just about food. These coffee cups cost a few euros at the weekly farmers market in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, a pretty village in Tuscany with a one-stop-shopping Monday market that sells everything from food to kitchenwares to underpants and soap.
Unlike the mostly Made in China kitchen goods at my farmers market in Paris, this stuff came from a factory in Florence, and was as pretty as anything you could find in overpriced shops aimed at tourists.
Does your farmers market sell kitchen goods?
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Comments (8)
these are faulous! love the delicious colours...can they be shipped?
Timeless,
I didn't ask for the card for the Florence factory where they're made. Sorry!
I NEED those espresso cups!
I got no work done today after this was posted. I was too busy googling like crazy, trying to figure out who made this incredible stuff...
Aw, this kills me. Those are MY dishes - and you pay a pretty penny to get those Italian-made, rustic dishes in the US. I would be tickled to be able to get them at a Farmer's Market!!
If I'm right, they are Vietri dishes, and can be ordered online.
Those are Vietri dishes. I sell them in my own store and the price is ridiculous, considering how easily they chip.
The coffee cups sell in the US for around $42 each.
Sounds like we need to go in together and visit Italy and ship the goods back- haha!
Yes, just confirmed with my sister, who bought some cups at the market, that they are Vietri.
And they cost a couple of euros each at the outdoor market in San Casciano...
My local farmer's market (St Paul, Minnesota) has a rule that everything has to be locally grown, so unlike the Minneapolis one, we only have veggies and herbs and flowers and occasionally some soap. I know that others are "lucky" enough to have food vendors and out-of-season fruits and cool stuff like these non-edibles, but I also like the simplicity of knowing that everything available was locally grown.
Very cute cups, though.