ELISA&JANNA

Johanna, originally from Sweden with a career as a gemologist with some of the best known antique jewelers in London, joins Matera in 2003. Here she meets Elisa who was running her sculpture studio, creating pieces in silver.

Matera, the city of the “Sassi”, situated in the beautiful region of Basilicata in southern Italy , becomes Johanna’s and Elisa’s meeting point, the north meets the south.

They get to know each other, they like each other, they choose each other and finding in each other a new vision of the art of jewellery making.

Here the artisan skills and the magic hands of Elisa intertwine with Johanna’s feel for design and passion for stones.

This is the beginning of their real adventure where they are not only specializing in the recycling of copper but also exploring new dimensions such as the idea of the “Sassi”. The actual word sassi in Italian means pebbles or stones, and they create “pebbles” in various metals, with the idea that each person visiting Matera can bring a “piece” of Matera with them home, as a gift or as a momento of their stay. The Sassi dei Sassi Collection.

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Credits

1-2 E&J : William Abranowicz | ELISA WORKSHOP: Claudio Silighini | shop: Johanna Curti | copper and sassi: Luca Centola

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Johanna and Elisa

Johanna , originally from Sweden, leaves her home country in 1987 to travel the world and lives for a short period in Australia, the UK and Mexico. She starts her career as a gemologist with some of the best known antique jewellers in London. In 2003 she leaves the UK to live in Matera, Southern Italy. After her Fine Arts degree in Bari, in the south of Italy, Elisa decides to specialize in goldsmithery in Florence. Here she tries to follow her passion for art and sculpture, translating it into jewellery. She opens her own studio in Matera in 2006 where she was creating pieces mainly in silver.

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