Valoriani, is known all over the world as a great artisan.
Since 1890, the Valoriani family have been producing refractory products and are world leaders of woodfired ovens. They produce ovens for both professional and residential use.
Many communal ovens were destroyed in Italian villages during World War II. Valoriani was on the front line to give strength to his country and his bricks were necessary during reconstruction, to building thousands of ovens, which were important for baking bread in the home. This was a turning point in oven history and the prefabricated wood burning oven was born.
Silvio Valoriani, a specialist
in refractory clay, by using all the century experience acquired from
his family, the choice or raw materials and the structural design of the
oven’s dome, perfect in all it’s proportions, to such a point that
still nowdays the dome is unchanged. As a result we get family sized wood burning ovens from refractory clay quarried from the hills of Tuscany.
With commercial and economic growth, demand for these products increased. Commercial businesses needed ovens that would be able to bake a high number of quality pizzas with uniform baking, that were able to keep a constant temperature and had low wood consumption. This is when Valoriani created the "Vesuvio range."
Vesuvio has been recognised as the Original Wood burning Oven. They still remain the original, the first product in its class and one
of the best products worldwide, chosen and used by some of the most
important restaurants and caterings.
The company today, after more than 50 years on the market, in it’s
5th generation and with over 300,000 ovens delivered, Valoriani ovens
are still made in Refrattari Reggello, high in the hills of Tuscany.
