Taking care of the family atelier, bearing the name of my father, it's not only a source of pride to me, but also a chance to keep looking for new balances in the elegance and shape's linearity of home's furniture.
In fact the “bucchero”, which is a traditional, thousands-year old monochrome pottery, imposes a continuous research, to find innovative shapes and to develop working techniques.
The latter are extremely laborious and consist in smoothing the surfaces of the pieces made of clay with boxwood sticks. The purpose is to polish them, in order to make the black coloring through the coal cooking. At the end you have to obtain a smooth layer with homogeneous shades of color to embellish the object.
During the '30s my father, who graduated by the Fine Arts Academy in Perugia, decided to base his atelier on experimentation. This way of working has become a constant characteristic of my education and of my professional experience as architect.
The preference towards polished shapes and elementary lines, has allowed me to reach fine effects. Some of my works are indeed exhibited in New York in relation to an event to celebrate the 500th anniversary since the discovery of America.
Pottery and architecture, a perfect match of interests that most of the time excites me, causing a creative short circuit. This led me to the publication of texts on the architectural heritage of my beloved Gubbio, and to the creation of “bucchero”'s objects I can't dispense without.