Born in Florence,Leonardo Cappellini developed his craft through a deep connection to wood. His studio practice is rooted in the art of woodturning and sculpting, using timber sourced from fallen trees and familiar landscapes across Tuscany.
Cappellini’s collections—such as Creative Void sand Ancient Roots—explore the poetic tension between organic imperfection and essential form. His work has been exhibited at the Salone dell’Alto Artigianato in Venice and is recognized for its quiet elegance, tactile presence, and sustainable ethos.
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Leonardo Cappellini is a wood designer based in Tuscany, Florence region in Italy. His practice emerges from a deep dialogue with natural materials, especially reclaimed wood from fallen trees or landscapes tied to personal memory. Each piece is an act of listening—to the original shape, to the imperfections, to the silent history the material carries.
His aesthetic is rooted in the balance between essential form and organic irregularity, between the time of the tree and the time of the human gesture. Turning, sculpting, and waiting are the three pillars of his process. His works,
such as Creative Voids and Ancient Roots, celebrate emptiness as a generative space and memory as living matter.
Leonardo envisions art as a poetic and radically sustainable act—one that nurtures intimate relationships between objects, places, and people.
