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I make my objects out of local woods, available in the territory where I live.

I use several kinds of woods like cypress wood, olive wood, hackberry wood and other from trees destroyed by bad weather or from cultivation practices related to landscape maintenance.

The influences on my work are to find in archaeological artefacts, Japanese ceramics or Venetian glasses. Every shape is unique and it finds its own individuality and perhaps takes distance from the original inspiration finding its own identity.

Related to this approach also the superficial finishes are made to improve the aesthetic perception of the object in itself.

I use the smooth texture of wood or a fluted finished, sandblasted or engraved, all the imperfections of the surface are considered an aesthetic decoration embedded in the piece.

Finals treatments and protection of the object vary from wood to wood and they can be vegetable oils of natural waxes, used to expand the sensorial perception of the artefact and to involve all the senses.

I trained as building designer with particular attention at architecture, aesthetic and environment.

I developed my practice in these field for many years, focusing on all the building's features and industrial design of custom pieces of furniture.

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Sometimes I designed for specific spaces also complex object where the shapes are the result of a combination of characteristic related not only to the function but also to the place where they are inscribed.

My favorites materials are stone, steel, and above all the wood.

Specifically for the last one, I experimented different techniques of woodworking until I discovered the woodturning and its multiple expressive possibilities.

My first approach was instinctive, that's why I could develop a specific sensitivity towards wood but necessary and crucial was also the more academic woodturning course by Claude Arragon which showed me the right and classical techniques I could adapt to my way of feeling woods.

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Franco Cigognetti

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