Onofrio Acone

Born in Salerno on May 26, 1977, Onofrio Acone has been an entrepreneur in the design and furniture industry since 1997, a restaurateur since 2005, and in 2008 he co-founded CINQUESEGNI, an innovative winery, with some of his closest friends.

He was fortunate to take his first steps in the ceramics workshop founded by his parents in 1982 in their garage in the province of Salerno. Growing up in that workshop, where the creativity of a small artisan studio thrived, he developed a passion for this incredible material with endless possibilities, nurturing his creativity from a young age.

Onofrio never left this field. Although that small workshop eventually evolved into a ceramics production company and later into an industry, he has always held a desire to express his creative side by making small sculptures, vases, and paintings exclusively by hand—without the aid of machines—using only the simplest and most rudimentary techniques, shaping the material solely with his hands.

These same techniques are still used today to create artistic pieces of medium to large sizes, each expressing the emotions of the artist who shaped them by hand.

In 2022, one of his long-held dreams finally came true: he opened a gallery where each piece offered is unique and inimitable, born from a single idea that takes shape in that wonderful material.