Porta Romana
Nianci Yang has extensive experience in procurement and purchasing, with a career spanning over 30 years across various roles. Currently working as a Purchaser at Porta Romana since April 2022, Nianci previously served as a Purchasing Officer at The Specialist in Traditional Sash Windows and held the position of Senior Buyer at Wick Hill for over a decade. Earlier career highlights include roles as a Senior Buyer and Print Buyer at Citigroup, where responsibilities included managing vendor relationships and overseeing extensive product lines. Nianci's career began as a Purchasing Assistant at Diners Club. Educational background includes attendance at Cove Comprehensive School from 1975 to 1979.
Porta Romana
Porta Romana began life in 1988 in a tiny London workshop. From the beginning, the ambition was to create beautiful and inspiring pieces that would be loved. Good fortune came in finding skilled British craftspeople to create the quirky and original designs. The Porta Romana style and design language has continuously evolved over the following quarter century to create a leading global brand, and a critical ingredient in the world’s most beautiful houses, yachts, hotels and movie sets. We still work with many of our original artisans, and continue to seek out the finest artistic talent, to help breathe fresh life into our collections. Our design studio is a creative power-house, and our painting studio a wonderful and innovative environment. We spend years training our artists to create subtle and sophisticated patinations. Gold is not just gold to us, we have developed dozens of different textures and colourings of this most enduring of metals. With each new collection comes the challenge of creating new finishes. From convincingly aged plaster, to perfecting the patina of a mussel shell, each new finish must work in harmony with the design. We impose the same demanding ambitions on our design partners. Our glass blowers are pushed to attempt stunning, original and technically challenging pieces. Our metal workers strive endlessly to come up with solutions to the many design problems we present them, and work to exacting standards; resuscitating old techniques and developing new ones. From sculptors to ceramicists, from lacquering to glazing, every expert hand and eye is focused on the crafting of something beautiful and enduring. That is our passion, and the hallmark of each unique Porta Romana piece. The Porta Romana brand has become synonymous with beautiful design made to the highest of standards. Only when these criteria are met, will the final piece be branded with our Makers Mark, as proof of its heritage.