Your Face, a piece of the Melting Words collection, is the contemporary interpretation of a Venetian mirror: melted, deformed, cracked and vandalised like its namesake. Your Face is a metaphor for the state of the city of Venice: just as the mirror reflects the environment, Your Face makes us reflect on the way in which tourism economy has disintegrated one of the capitals of modern European culture.
Born in Venice in 1972. He graduated in Industrial Design at the Milan Polytechnic.
After an experience in the field of goldsmith design, he arrives in Philippe Starck's studio. In Paris he is fascinated by design capable of expressing traditional craftsmanship in a contemporary key. Back in Italy he pursues these expressions by starting to collaborate with companies in which manual skill is a distinguishing element of production.
