Self-made architect and artisan, I have been involved in planning and design for years, I live and work in Venice. Since 2013 I fell in love with lampworking and Murano beads. I began my artistic training by following courses taught by masters of Murano working with lampwork beads. With my creations-jewels, born from a passion for design and craftsmanship, I try to convey the beauty of this ancient art of thousands of years updating it in shapes and color combinations to the contemporary feeling.
I find inspiration for my creations in the natural world where wonderfully imperfect forms are the focus of primordial emotions.

What does Kirumakata’s jewelry look like?

I like to think of my jewelry as emotional objects. Jewels capable of arousing strong energies given by material surfaces and uncontrolled shapes. Therefore, they are difficult to reproduce identically, each piece of jewelry is similar but not identical and each creation retains its identity of uniqueness.
I found in the glass, a material that when it meets the flame and the heat is shaped into sinuous and soft forms, the perfect material. Perfect for transmitting ancestral sensations of surfaces worked by time and made rough and coarse, but not difficult by surface treatments that make Kirumakata pearls micro-sculptures to wear.

What does Kirumakata mean?

The kirumakata logo, designed personally, synthesizes the traits of a samurai, a warrior who defended the traditions of ancient Japan, and this is how I like to imagine myself when I think of my work as an artisan of the “lampwork” pearl, who passionately repeats millenary gestures that must not be lost.

Kirumakata, a word that in Venetian dialect “chi ruma, cata” has the meaning of “whoever searches, finds…..” well summarizes my way of doing research for my creations; always curious to find new connections between different materials, symbols and cultures even far away in time.
For my stylistic research, a source of great inspiration are above all the primitive cultures of yesterday and today. Cultures that have not yet been homologated, but maintain their own precise singularity in terms of shapes and colors very close to nature.

With these attentions are born the collections, necklaces and rings in which imperfect shapes predominate. These are combined with colors that enhance the irregular surfaces and closures carved by hand beating brass wires in forms always very close to natural elements or designed by me and melted by skilled goldsmiths.

The Kirumakata style is also declined in the precise will to differentiate itself by hand. This is achieved by trying to use almost always only original and personally handmade components. Or by working with the goldsmith Art & Oro at kilometer zero for the closures with KK logo and for the frames of the rings, which I design after a careful and rigorous stylistic research.

Attention to detail throughout the creative process led me to choose to design Kirumakata’s packaging as well. Made of laser-cut felt, a warm and soft material that contains and protects a precious object such as a Murano glass jewel. It too is designed to last over time and to be the jewel’s guardian forever.