Franz

This is a Taiwanese brand named by the founder's name Francis Chen. The collection of this company includes porcelain tableware, vase,and jewelry. Founded in June 2002 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco, Franz Collection Inc. designs, creates and markets a variety of functional and home decor accessories.

Franz Porcelain's design and research center is based in Taipei, Taiwan, with production carefully managed and closely supervised in Mainland China. In addition to sales, marketing and distribution facilities in the United States, Franz has representative offices in Europe, Australia and New Zealand

Francis Chen, founder of Franz Collection Inc., is recognized worldwide as a successful artist and entrepreneur. Following his vision to revive the Chinese porcelain art, Chen - who majored in German Literature while attending university.

Inspired by the love for nature, Franz Porcelain developed delicate butterflies, fragile flowers, whimsical animals, and other motifs that successfully and uniquely combine traditional Chinese character with classic Art Nouveau designs. Every piece of Franz Porcelain blends the essence of Oriental culture with the styling inspired by Western artistry. The collection not only combines eastern culture but also western culture to create more various styles.

Franz's staff of artisans has experimented with the many ways to glaze, decorate and fire ceramics for decades. Today, they employ traditional underglazing techniques as well as colored glazing, crystalline glazing and overglazing to produce unique and elegant products. Using the underglazing technique, the finest Chinese clay is painted with a subtle Oriental color palette, coated with a layer of transparent glaze, and put into a kiln for firing at a temperature of about 1,000 Celsius degrees. The end results are aesthetically pleasing, and create a distinctively stylish décor collection.