STEFANIA LUCCHETTA
ABOUT:
Stefania Lucchetta lives and works in Bassano del Grappa (Italy). Her work focuses on jewellery and design of accessories for home and interior, producing both small edition as well as larger industrial-scale series. As artist, designer and production executive, she is present at all phases of production: beginning with market demands and following each piece through its creation, manufacturing and refinement process. She has accumulated a thorough experience in different production techniques, including stamping, casting, engraving and laser etching. In 2000 she began learning CAD-CAM systems and rapid prototyping, both of which she now masters completely. In 2002, complimenting her activities in jewellery design and home accessories, she began experimenting with new materials and innovative production techniques. Following this new line of research she realized a number of limited jewellery series made of a biocompatible resin. More recently, she extended her investigations to titanium and to “stellite” processing and craftsmanship, thus realising her newest collections.
Lucchetta’s background in fine arts and design began, just after high school, at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, Italy. After completing her Degree in the Humanities at the University of Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy, where she majored in the History of Contemporary Arts, she turned her attention full time to jewellery design. While attending various post-graduate courses, she began working in her family’s jewellery company as a designer, encountering and mastering the aforementioned CAD-CAM systems and rapid prototyping processes. In 2004 she received her Masters degree in Industrial Design from the Scuola Italiana di Design in Padua, Italy. In 2007 Lucchetta established her own jewellery and design company, Stefania Lucchetta s.r.l.