1. Where were you born and where are you from ?

2. What is your first memory connected to the art world ?

3. Have you always worked in the art/design field ?

Yes. I started out working in packaging and fragrance design for a few years while building up my design collec tion in my free time, then eventually moving to doing it full time.

4. What led you to the design creation ?

I’ve always had an impulse to draw paint and build things as a child. I only felt energized and motivated by work that was aesthetically driven. 

5. How would you describe your creative process and it influences ?

My work lately has been inspired by the principles of Wabi Sabi – the beauty of imperfection. I tend to become obsessive with a particular quality of material such as the natural patina of brass or the varied patterns of a certain stone, and express them in elegant forms.

6. Could you describe a typical day of your work ?

I usually spend an equal amount of time between my computer and the workshop. I’m either working on 3D designs and concepts one day and at the workshop the next day refining new prototypes.

7. Why did you choose the specific materials you work with ?

I like working with time-honored materials and interpreting them into forms and textures that evoke a feeling of the past, present and future.

8. What are the technical particularities of your creations ?

Highly refined minimalist forms that invoke a sense of warmth and timelessness. 

9. What advices could you give to beginning artists who would like to create sculptural design works ?

Be willing to take risks, and don’t compromise on your design vision. Learn new design processes, techniques or work in a new material etc. Do what feels exciting and challenging!

10. If your works had to belong to a design movement, in which one would you define it ?

Minimalist mixed with Biomorphism.

11. What designers and artists have influenced you ?

Nouguchi, Fausto Melotti, Gio Ponti 

12. What contemporary designers do you appreciate ?

Vincenzo De Cotiis, Lindsey Adelman Anne Holtrop

13. What contemporary artists (in any kind of art) have you been inspired by ?

Andy Goldsworthy, Anish Kapoor, Brancusi

14. If you had to summarize your creations in one word or sentence, what would it be ?

15. Is there anything you’d like to add?

Thanks for the interview!

Proust Questionnaire with very short answers (one or a few words) :
(The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Other historical figures who have answered confession albums are Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Cézanne…)