Nicola Tessari

Nicola Tessari was a late bloomer. He decided to become an artisan at the age of 47, after a degree in electronic engineering and a 15-year-long career in different companies in the Vicenza area. Why so late? “Maybe it was a belated vocation, maybe a reaction towards the industrial environment or the sudden discovery of a latent creativity,” he explains. Mainly he saw an unmissable opportunity to turn a passion into a job and he grabbed it with both hands. Since 2013, he works exclusively with solid wood sourced locally, near to his workshop. He specialises in furnishing elements, lamps and artistic objects, all inspired “by purity and essential designs. Redundancy is not something you would want to pair with wood, which is already too rich in details of its own,” as he puts it.

The Artisan: a crafted tea room Exhibition