At the end of his apprenticeship, he followed a long and varied journey on the route to becoming a pioneering furniture designer and cabinet maker. This included developing his talents in a series of postings as part of the prestigious "Tour de France".

Awarded a scholarship from 1985 to 1986 at the De Courbertin Foundation, he specialised in techniques for the bending of wood.

Moving to Florence, he then set up his own workshop in the early 1990s where he was able to make furniture to his own designs.

His ability to marry creative expression with traditional craft is expressed in his early works which include conical stools, unusually-shaped hall tables, beautifully carved lamps and elegant chaise-longues with sinuous lines.

At the third Florence exposition in 1997 devoted to "Artigianato e Palazzo" traditional crafts, his creations stood out and were awarded first prize for their choice of materials, elegant proportions and their search for a new visual language.

The search, which explores new expressive uses for wood through a very individual vocabulary of form and the remarkable use of materials, has been the hallmark of his works todate, resulting in designs which seduce the eye with their original shapes, whick are never run of the mill, and which are always captivating.