Alice Reina creates sculptural porcelain pieces that explore fragility, memory, and light. Working with slab-built forms and natural pigments, her work embodies handcrafted porcelain design with a soul. Inspired by botany, architecture, and literature, she brings quiet emotion and poetic clarity to contemporary Italian craftsmanship. Each piece is made slowly, intentionally—designed to be lived with and felt.
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""Every object carries a story, a quiet dialogue between material and memory, crafted with intention and soul."
Alice Reina is a designer and porcelain artist. In 2015, she encountered porcelain during a short but transformative workshop that profoundly shifted her creative path. Soon after, she founded Biancodichina: a contemporary porcelain studio working at the crossroads of design, craftsmanship, and art.
Her work explores the theme of fragility—its many dimensions and the way its perception reshapes our daily gestures. Her creative process is guided by two continuous flows: the intelligence of plants, with their harmonious and resilient behaviour, and literature, which offers her words and ideas that she transforms into form and matter.
Her creations include both functional porcelain in limited editions and one-of-a-kind cultural pieces. Each object reflects a personal, poetic relationship with materials—delicate yet grounded in precision, emotion, and thoughtfulness.
Trained as an architect at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Reina brings structural awareness and spatial sensitivity into her artistic practice. But it is through porcelain that her voice has found its most intimate and expressive form.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including:
Wonderlands, 1000 vases, collective show at Espace Commines, Paris Design Week, 2019
Queer#3, PAD London, presented by Rossana Orlandi Gallery, 2017
Queer#2, Salone del Mobile, presented by Rossana Orlandi Gallery, Milan, 2016
Through Biancodichina, Alice Reina represents a new generation of Italian artisan-designers, blending material memory with a contemporary design language. She embodies a contemporary vision of Italian craft—where each piece holds a story, an emotion, and a quiet permanence meant to be lived with.
