After years of training as a creative, which lead him to a career in the world of advertising, Davide Furno, feeling a bit constrained in his professional role, began to take an interest in craftsmanship. He discovered wax work in the fruit collection of the 19th century wax modeller, Francesco Garnier Valletti. A passion was born. Davide has nourished this interest with years of study and research. In his atelier in Biella, he creates reproductions of fruits and vegetables out of wax for museums, universities, private collections or scenography. Using fruits and vegetables as models, Davide produces the mould, into which he pours a boiling mixture of resins and waxes. The raw piece is then coloured and polished with six to eight coats of white lead, glazes and varnish.
Davide Furno
