SAMANTHA BONANNO

BIOGRAPHY

After graduating from The Marangoni Fashion School in 2000, the artist worked for many years as a pattern maker, while going through a deep change in her personal  life she decided to dedicate herself to another great passion and learn the different methods of paper processing. Book sculpture, Cut Out and Origami are some of the techniques she has perfected and she overlaps these in her creations. If up until then she was able to turn stylists ideas into three dimensional creations she has now managed through  her intriguing personality to construct her own excellent designs.
This new beginning of her artistic experience lead her to create various designs, each one different to show her technique, nature and purpose. The young artist/designer still collaborates in fashion  and works on commission when she’s free to use her creativity, she makes incredible accessories, but above all she creates artistic pieces imbued with value and significance. Each piece has a different inspiration: a song, a meeting, a journey and those books that, after many hours of developing, modelling, glueing and precise cutting, take the fragile, elegant forms that mirror her sincere personality; each single piece has a unique value, it’s own life, a clear sign or a hidden element amongst the folded pages.