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The Independent Designers and Artists

MEET AND DISCOVER THE COLLECTIONS THEY BRING TO LIFE

Alice Reina

Turin, Italy

Alice Reina creates sculptural porcelain pieces that explore fragility, memory, and light. Working with natural pigments, her work embodies handcrafted porcelain design with a soul. Inspired by botany, architecture, and literature, she brings quiet emotion and poetic clarity to contemporary Italian craftsmanship. Each piece is made slowly, intentionally—designed to be lived with and felt.

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Francesca Romana Cicia

Rome, Italy

Francesca Romana Cicia creates sculptural ceramic works that explore memory, absence, and transformation. Inspired by fragments of nature and impermanence, her practice shapes delicate forms suspended between presence and disappearance. Through layered surfaces and crystalline glazes, she transforms ceramics into a poetic language of traces and quiet emotion.

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Daniela Daz Moretti

Udine, Italy

Daniela Daz Moretti explores ceramics as a space of memory, rhythm, and transformation. Moving between sculpture, painting, and ceramics, her work develops through layering, imprint, and sedimentation. Through quiet sculptural forms and tactile surfaces, she creates pieces that invite contemplation and sensory engagement.

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Riccardo Monachesi

Rome, Italy

Riccardo Monachesi reinterprets Italian ceramic tradition through sculptural works that balance structure, colour, and irony. Drawing on historic techniques and materials, he transforms clay into a contemporary language of emotion and reflection. His practice moves between sculpture, object, and allegory, blending precision with playful experimentation.

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Anna Resmini 

Milan, Italy

Anna Resmini approaches ceramics through an intuitive dialogue with clay, allowing forms to emerge naturally from the material itself. Her one-of-a-kind sculptural vessels celebrate gesture, balance, and individuality, resisting repetition and mass production.

Inspired by silence and spatial harmony, her work transforms ceramics into expressive and deeply human forms. 

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Etra Masi

Tuscany, Italy

Etra Masi works with porcelain through a research-driven and intuitive process rooted in Faenza’s ceramic tradition. Guided by the material itself, she creates sculptural forms that reveal the tactile memory and quiet strength of clay. Using subtle tonalities, oxides, and pigments, her work balances experimentation with handcrafted sensitivity.

 

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Francesco Maria Messina

Tuscany, Italy

Francesco Maria Messina is an Italian independent designer known for his sculptural, limited-edition furniture that fuses nature, memory, and material innovation. Based in Tuscany, he works with volcanic stone, alabaster, petrified wood, metal and marble—materials chosen as much for their emotional weight as their beauty. His practice blends traditional Italian craftsmanship with a deep commitment to sustainability and storytelling, making each piece a work of functional art.

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Leonardo Cappellini

Tuscany, Italy

Leonardo Cappellini is a Tuscany-based wood designer known for his sculptural approach.His work explores the dialogue between nature and form, crafting poetic pieces that embrace imperfection, time, and the quiet beauty of wood.

 

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