Stefano Coccioli

Graduated at Hajech Art School in Milan in 1974, he chose the sea life attracted by discovery, freedom and the desire to measure himself, a desire that will characterise his entire artistic life. Skipper in the Mediterranean Sea for ten years, he returned to Milan in 1980.

This date marks the beginning of a new path of study and recovery of traditional decorative techniques that will be acquired under the guidance of expert craftsmen specialising in the restoration of historical palaces and aristocratic buildings from 18th and 19th century Lombardy.

In 1988, he attended the Ecole Renaissance in Paris where he became passionate about the use of faux marble and the various decorative techniques. He experimented with new methodologies, not only in conservative and decorative restorations of stately homes in Tuscany, Sicily, France and the United States, but especially in the creation of ornamental plaster panels sold not only in Italy but also in America, Japan, Australia and Switzerland, thus achieving full artistic autonomy.

He is and has been a researcher: only by experimenting and delving into things can one really dare, confidently accepting the risk of trial and error.

And it is precisely by deepening that the desire to know and learn the ancient art of scagliola, an art still handed down by rare and knowledgeable Valsesian craftsmen who developed in the 19th century a singular ability in the working of scagliola, perfecting the already existing technique of imitation of marble to achieve results of exceptional quality.