The story of the Lisa Corti brand is closely linked to a love of travel and the discovery of time-honoured artisanal methods. After investigating every aspect of home fabrics its style is now embodied by the first tableware collection by Marta Bernasconi - ph. courtesy by Lisa Corti
reativity, travel and experimentation interweave in the story of this Italian brand, which has defined a unique, distinctive home decor style.
It all began in Milan in 1963 when Lisa, a young woman little more than twenty years old, created a clothing line for women. It comprised just a few garments, but they were well liked and met with a degree of success. Ten years later she travelled to India with her daughter, rediscovering colours, fabrics and textures she had first seen during her childhood in Eritrea. From that time on Lisa Corti’s imagination developed and was enriched by a constant series of stimuli, including encounters with ancient artisanal techniques. One important example is block printing, which the stylist came to use frequently in her collections. In the 1980s her Home Textile Emporium became a showcase for her fabrics, designed in Italy and produced in India – home fabrics, tablecloths and wall hangings, as well as clothing for women, men and children, kaftans and bags. The brand’s home décor vision was completed in 2025 with the arrival of something new, a long-cherished dream of Lisa Corti – the tableware collection. Defining the mood of
Opposite page, three plates in the Sariska pattern, one of the two motifs in the new Lisa Corti porcelain line. The exotic design in the centre is enclosed by a frame of stripes in watercolour tones, a distinctive element of the brand’s creations
Indian Tiger is the second pattern providing inspiration for the new porcelain collection. The pattern is created by combining two iconic Lisa Corti designs, the tiger stripe and big flower. The pieces can be combined in thousands of ways, for an unexpected and always new table setting
the porcelain line, too, involved evoking the impressions gained during travel in faraway lands – the journeys undertaken in China by Lisa’s husband. He brought back wonderful porcelain items of a kind that had remained vivid in the family’s memory, so Lisa Corti’s porcelain embodies a refined, eastern elegance, offering two patterns rooted in this fascinating family story. The Sariska theme features a small temple surrounded by tropical vegetation and protected by a tiger, a symbol of strength and royalty. The pattern is framed by Lisa Corti’s classic stripes in the four pastel versions in watercolour tones of pink, orange, green and blue. The second pattern in the new tableware collection is Indian Tiger, a combination of two of the brand’s iconic patterns, tiger stripe and big flower. The collection comprises plates and a coffee service, completed by accessories like valet trays and boxes with lids. The mix&match idea is based on a combination of the two patterns and the many colour possibilities.
The new porcelain brings the unmistakeable Lisa Corti style to the table, creating a joyously unconventional table setting. lisacorti.com