BOIS ET ROIS – CAPUZZO Katia
With an artisan background and spirit, Katia has long wandered through various courses and professional trainings: from dressmaking (and velvet embroidery) to sculpture and wood and clay carving, driven by the desire to create freely without rigid patterns.
Since 1999, she has taken part in the Sant’Orso Fair, where interaction with the public continues to inspire the evolution of her creations. Her experiences in international fashion-related fairs have also encouraged her to broaden her horizons.
For over twenty-five years, however, it is Aosta Valley craftsmanship that has been Katia’s main source of inspiration: she creates sculptures but above all tatà (wooden and ceramic toys) and home décor items inspired by the local fauna and flora, combining different techniques, materials and colours. More recently, she has also created a line of natural walnut jewellery, “because even wood scraps are too precious to be thrown away”, as she likes to say.
DANDRES Demis
Demis began his journey with wood in 2012, eventually turning the skills he developed into a profession by 2020.
Fascinated by the history of local craftsmanship and its key figures, he distances himself from a strictly commercial or entrepreneurial mindset, constantly seeking a language that makes his creations intuitively connected to both the artist and the region. At the same time, he aims to place them within a broader and more universal artistic context.
His eclectic body of work moves along the boundary between art and craft, including everyday objects, home décor, toys, jewelry, full-round sculptures, bas-reliefs, and everything that nature, life, heart, mind, and hands inspire him to create.
IMAGO IMAGINUM – CINA Paola
Imago Imaginum was born from the desire to reuse poor materials that bring with them a great number of stories. The door of a piece of furniture or the side of a wooden cradle, the scraps of old hemp sheets, jute cloth sacks, pieces of rope and curls of iron beaten by hand are just some examples of materials and objects from which Paola Cina starts to produce new creations. Thanks to a process implemented in the laboratory with the use of drill, flexible, scissors, brushes and colours, Imago narrates a poem about the little things that communicate emotions thanks to the insertion of phrases from old songs of popular tradition, poems, nursery rhymes and proverbs.
HEARTELIER – AVANTEY Elisa
Elisa Avantey was born as a graphic designer by profession and approached crafts as a way to give voice to the images and stimuli that come to her from everyday life by transforming them into something innovative and captivating. Her work combines visual communication (editorial graphic design, logo design, illustration, fittings and packaging) with art and design.
Her production is varied both for the materials used and for the objects made, but what her creations have in common is that they are the fruit of an original idea, aimed at satisfying the requirements of each customer.
Since 2012, Elisa has produced also a line of fantasy jewellery inspired by nature and its countless shapes.
COMANUFATTO – PELLISSIER Corinne
Corinne has been dedicating herself to the sector of stained glass for a long time. After several years of study, many experiments and much practice, she finally opened her personal laboratory. She enjoys creating special objects through a particular personalized method. In fact, starting for example from an image or a photograph, she can develop a piece of art tailored to specific tastes and needs. coMANUFATTO wants to transmit in the glass sector the spirit of craftsmanship that is usually associated with other materials in Aosta Valley.