Made a Mano

Founded in 2001, Made a Mano is a Danish design company that creates unique and beautiful tiles, planks, basins, vanity- and worktops and decorative boards. All products are exclusively handmade — from the cutting to the glazing and free hand painting, hand printing and silkscreening. The most extravagant Made a Mano products are made of pure solid lava stone from Mount Etna in Italy. The Made a Mano factory is located near by, which explains the Italian sounding name. The founder of Made a Mano, NanaKi Bonfils, first encountered lava stone on a sourcing trip to Sicily. She fell in love with the durability of the material and its untapped design potential. Adopted from Korea into an academic Danish family, Bonfils was raised in a minimalist home furnished with Danish design. Her parents collected Japanese art and kimonos and these decorations have in turn inspired many of Made a Mano’s graphic patterns. NanaKi Bonfils describes the Made a Mano aesthetic as Asian-Scandinavian: “a strange mix of what I like and what I grew up with.”