The production of ceramics at Civita Castellana dates back some centuries before the rise of Rome; in fact the vase production could be found even as early as the 4th century BC. During the Middle Ages and the Rennaissance some good quality clay products appeared, but only at the end of the 18th century did the clay quarries charachterizing this area of Italy begin to be exploited with industrial intentions. The first example of a workshop producing crockery and artistic ceramics was opened in 1792, by the architect Giuseppe Valadier and then by Giovanni Volpato, while some factories producing crockery, tiles and sanitaryware only really developed in the first years of 1900.
Ceramica Flaminia was born on the 5th of January 1955 when twenty three sanitaryware workers formed an association after a strike over contract renewals.

Work In Progress

So at the middle of 1990s, when the search of alternative shapes for bathroom products had became more and more fundamental, Flaminia struck up a cooperation with Roberto Palomba creating the successful Work in Progress project. The real turning-point happened in 1997 when in Verona, during the cultural exhibition Abitare il Tempo, Flaminia presented Acquagrande, a great rectangular washbasin designed by Giulio Cappellini. This basin represented an important innovation in a market which was characterised only by round and soft shapes. The Acquagrande basin was soon accompanied by other products by Roberto and Ludovica Palomba, such as a round basin called Twin Set, which was born in 1998; by the end of the year the range of articles was widened with other sizes and models in order to offer a great variety to the public. In Bologna at Cersaie 2000 Flaminia exhibited the Link wc and bidet by Cappellini and Palomba: wall hung sanitaryware which showed the siphon for the first time and without any shame, and hid all the fixing brakets at the same time. Their linear shape was purposely designed in order to produce two articles that could be freely matched to the various washbasins in the Work In Progress range. At the same exhibition the ceramic Twin Column was present too, a new solution for the free-standing installation of Twin Set basin. The search of original solutions went on in 2001, when Tatami was shown to the public: a modular shower tray for floor level installations, which joints innovation and very rigorous design. Spin wall hung wc and bidet appeared in 2002 along with the Nuda basins, available in different sizes and two versions. Through these two lines Palomba began to explore sensual soft shapes.

The year 2005 was very important because there were many events which confirmed that Flaminia had become a reference point amongst sanitaryware producers. Ceramica Flaminia also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2005, and still continues to push its research and experimentation that has made it the trend setter it is today.

Over the years critics have given many awards to Flaminia products:

• Acquagrande received the Design Plus Award at ISH in Frankfurt in 2001
• Link was nominated in the selection of the 19th Compasso D'Oro ADI Award and received the Design Plus Award at ISH in Frankfurt in 2001
• Twin Column was nominated in the selection of the 19th Compasso D'Oro ADI Award in 2001
• Tatami received the Segnalazione al Merito by the jury of Comfor & Design Award at Mostra Convegno in Milan and won The Best in Bathroom Design Award on Elle Decoration Uk magazine in 2002; in 2003 it won Der Innovationspreis Architektur und Technik Award at ISH in Frankfurt and the year after the Prix du Design Award at Ideo Bain in Paris. In 2004 it was also nominated in the selection of the 20th Compasso D'Oro ADI Award