I was born and still live in Piedmont, Italy, in a landscape shaped by stone quarries and coal mines. Growing up among these places taught me to appreciate the quiet beauty of weathered surfaces, mineral colours and the marks left by time. Long before I began creating jewelry, stone had already become part of the way I looked at the world.

Today, those memories continue to guide my work. Rather than carving stone, I transform discarded eggshells into Eggshell Porcelain, an unconventional material that I have developed through years of research and experimentation. The shells are cleaned, ground and combined with natural binders to create a lightweight material with a strong mineral presence.

Finely ground charcoal is mixed into the material to recall the veins, shades and textures of the stone landscapes where I was born. It is not an imitation of stone, but a way of carrying a fragment of that landscape into every piece. Each pearl develops its own subtle variations, making every work unique.

Every element is shaped, refined and assembled entirely by hand in my studio. No moulds are used, and no two pieces are ever identical. Slight irregularities, changing tones and tactile surfaces are not imperfections—they are an essential part of my artistic language.