In the footsteps of the Habsburg master decorators

• • Paola is a decorator specialised in moulding
• • She has a varied background in historical research and decorative art
• • Her specialisation is known by very few

In Trieste, Paola Mocchi carries on the craft of decorator and specialises in moulding. Paola has an extensive and varied artistic and professional background: it began with painting, continued in Paris, where she studied scenography first and then decorative arts at ENSAD, worked at the Rosini and Clementi foundries, before joining the Carpenters Workshop Gallery for five years and the Atelier d'Art of the French National Museums. In 2021 she returned to Trieste and opened her own business. For Paola, art has always been a "tool for reading and understanding" the world and herself. It was in the ENSAD sculpture workshops that she discovered casts, and came to understand her "destination." Her encounter with Peppino Rosini was crucial to her journey, as it is thanks to him that she found out that craftsmanship fascinates her “much more than pure creation.”