ILARIA LUCIANI

Bianca and the Wild Child

Aosta, ITALY

“Enjoy the beauty of a simple and slow life.”

Ilaria, the founder of Bianca and The Wild Child, is an Italian artist, based in Aosta. She has a degree in "Linguistic Mediation" and she attended some fashion classes in NABA, in Milano. She opened a handmade bridal boutique, but she soon realized it wasn't her path. After two life-changing years spent in Crete, Greece, she understood she was made for a more slow and simple life. And that's when she met the amazing world of clay.

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Value in the details

A Creative Journey from Moodboard to Masterpiece

In her workshop, everything starts with a moodboard. Then, every piece of the collection comes up to her mind. She experiments various technique, such as the slab technique, the very ancient "colombino" technique and the "pizzicato" technique. Every step of the realization of a ceramic takes time: this is where you understand to slow down. After she modeled the piece by hand, she lets it dry and then she puts it in the kiln for the first cooking. When the piece is out of the kiln, she glazes it with different tools, like brushes or even toothbrushes. And in the end, she puts the piece in the kiln, for the second cooking. Et voilà! The ceramic is ready to be enjoyed!