Karin Putsch-Grassi studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Florence and later at Goldsmith’s College London. Her main interest was in the firing process, and she immediately started to build and fire different kinds of kilns: low fire wood kilns, gas kilns, raku and soda fired kilns made of firebricks and ceramic fibre. In 2009 she and her husband built their first kiln of empty wine bottles; 500 positioned horizon