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©Stefano Raffa
©Stefano Raffa
©Stefano Raffa
©Stefano Raffa
©Stefano Raffa

Stefano Raffa

  • Multimedia sculptor
  • Milan, Italy
  • Rising Star
Stefano Raffa Multimedia sculptor
Contact
Italian, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+39 3356212242
©Stefano Raffa

Sophisticating everyday objects

  • • Stefano creates unique luxury pieces
  • • He is fascinated by natural materials
  • • His experience as a photographer is essential to his work as a maker

After a rewarding career as a photographer in the field of fashion and design, in 2014 Stefano Raffa transformed his great passion for making objects with the most varied materials into a new professional activity. He handcrafts luxury objects, born from his vision, and from the careful combination of natural materials such as precious woods and horn. Objects of daily use emerge from Stefano's hands transformed into works of art: razors, shaving brushes, knife blocks, cutting boards, kitchen knives, boxes, and even jewels such as cufflinks for men and women. Intrigued by the most varied of materials, whether they be precious woods, horn, shells, or metals, and their potential, Stefano sets no limits in imagining new items.

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Works

  • ©Stefano Raffa
  • ©Stefano Raffa
  • ©Stefano Raffa
  • ©Stefano Raffa
  • ©Stefano Raffa
Photo: ©Stefano Raffa
Flexball razors

The flexball razors, which can fit the Gillette Fusion head, have deer, oryx or wooden handles shaped and polished to fit the heads. A small magnet is inserted inside the handles to match the brush shaving stands. The deer and oryx handles are finished with ebony at the base of the handle.

Photo: ©Stefano Raffa
Damascus knife with holder case

The knife handle in deer antler is finished with a silver guard. The case back was made with the cuttlefish bone casting technique, reproducing a particular design. The box has a groove for storing the knife, and once opened it serves as a support for the knife itself. The blade, designed by Stefano Raffa, is made by a cutler.

Photo: ©Stefano Raffa
Women's cufflinks

Born from the desire to create jewelled cufflinks for women, these are made by shaping horn, smoothing and polishing, and silver bands on which a traditional mechanism for cufflinks is welded.

Photo: ©Stefano Raffa
Brass corkscrew

This corkscrew was handcrafted by casting in brass, sports a kudu horn handle, and is finished with makassar ebony wood. The base, made by turning a block of ebony, makes the corkscrew an object for display and not to be placed in a drawer.

Photo: ©Stefano Raffa
Knife blocks in wenge and oryx antler

This hexagonal-shaped knife block in wengè wood has a revolving base, for 12 knives and kitchen accessories. Inside the larger block there is a second smaller block for six steak knives. Both blocks have magnets for the blades.

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