Milan-based sculptor Gianluca Pacchioni discovered his artistic vocation and his passion for Sculpture in his twenties, while learning as a young apprentice in a studio shared with other artists on Quai de la Gare in Paris. There, he was able to learn the metalsmithing time-honored techniques such as blacksmithing, metal forging, hammering, and bronze casting. The artist's work has since matured into a virtuous fusion of brass, bronze, iron, nuanced with patinas that the artist developed himself, or layered with poured liquid metals also created by the artist. He later on explored the juxtaposition of the metal mediums with stone and has since grew a significant body of work combining the two types of material. Pacchioni lives and works in Milan, where he continues to pursue his passion, as he creates and fabricates each of his pieces.

Following Pacchioni’s first exhibition, the Cologni Foundation bestowed upon the artist the title of Master in Fine Arts & Crafts—a highly regarded distinction that recognizes Italy's most skilled artisans.

The Cremino is a unique handcrafted piece from Pacchioni's iconic Cremino series, which encompasses various table sizes and designs. Each piece is created around the stone itself. The artist scours the world’s quarries in search for blocks of stone with distinct personalities. The stone itself is the inspiration behind most of Pacchioni’s pieces and often dictates the shapes and design of the final piece.

With the intention to create a piece that emphasizes the inherent beauty of the mineral material, the artist creates a pedestal-like table made of elegant, slender bronze-cast legs, crowned by a tightly selected, rough-cut stone. The polished brass surface of the bronze structure reflects the natural underside of the stone, accentuating its natural personality and beauty. Each piece reflects the artist's fascination with the juxtaposition of contrasting energies, such as lightness and heavy-weight, delicate and rough, masculine and feminine. Meticulously crafted at Pacchioni's studio in Milan, the Creminos and its mesmerizing balance of weight, details and finishes reflect the artist's craftsmanship mastery and his reverence to Nature.

Gianluca Pacchioni Collection

CREMINO NEBULA

CREMINO O WHITE ONYX

CREMINO ORANGE FLAKES

Milan-based sculptor Gianluca Pacchioni discovered his artistic vocation and his passion for Sculpture in his twenties, while learning as a young apprentice in a studio shared with other artists on Quai de la Gare in Paris. There, he was able to learn the metalsmithing time-honored techniques such as blacksmithing, metal forging, hammering, and bronze casting. The artist's work has since matured into a virtuous fusion of brass, bronze, iron, nuanced with patinas that the artist developed himself, or layered with poured liquid metals also created by the artist. He later on explored the juxtaposition of the metal mediums with stone and has since grown a significant body of work combining the two types of material. Pacchioni lives and works in Milan, where he continues to pursue his passion, as he creates and fabricates each of his pieces.

CREMINO TRAVERTINE I

Gianluca Pacchioni, a Milan-based artist, acclaimed for his rigorously sculpted metal objects, began forging metal as a self-taught apprentice in a studio shared with other artists at Quai de la Gare in Paris. After his first exhibition, the Cologni Foundation awarded Pacchioni a Master in Fine Arts & Crafts, an honor that recognizes the most skilled artisans in Italy. Pacchioni’s team fuses his methods with traditional techniques to manipulate metal in new ways. His work has matured into a virtuous fusion of brass, bronze, iron, stones layered with different patinas, and poured liquid metals.

UNDER THE SHEETS I

CREMINO GREEN ONYX

UNDER THE SHEETS III

CREMINO O NEBULA

CREMINO CLOUD ONYX

Console Tables

Born in Milan in 1966, Gianluca Pacchioni discovered his life passion for art and metalsmithing when he moved to Paris in the nineties. There, he experimented and learned the techniques of sculpting, forging, and casting metals in a shared artists studio at the Quai de la Gare. His experiments resulted in his first collection of iron sculptures and furniture, exhibited at the Vivendi Gallery, Place des Vosges.

The artist then returned to his native Milan, opening his own studio in an eyedrops factory from the 1930s, working in tandem with Italian master craftsmen with whom he learned and honed his expertise. Pacchioni never ceases to explore new techniques and new materials. Today his work has matured into a virtuous fusion of brass, bronze, iron, stones layered with different patinas, and poured liquid metals.

In 2014, the Italian Embassy in Paris selected Pacchioni's work to embody Italy's ongoing heritage of master craftsmanship and art, with a permanent installation of his work in the Embassy's entrance hall. Subsequently, the Fondazione Cologni bestowed the title of 2016 Master of Arts & Crafts to the artist. Pacchioni says of his own work: "I abuse the metals, but then I end up caressing them... my aim is to find a form which blends imperfection with finesse."