Studio Pescarella

Studio Pescarella opened in January 2002, realizing the vision of Jaya Schuerch and other sculptor collegues, to

create a studio for professional stone sculptors, in a cooperative environment with abundent and equipment. Set up

on the site of an old segheria, (marble cutting factory ) the studio has become a workplace for up to 12 sculptors from

around the world.

The studio's protected space allows the sculptors to work undisturbed both indoors and outdoors. There is room to

work on large or small works simultaneously, to display finished work, and to store stone for future work. The studio

is fully equipped for all kinds of stone working activities, which include using air hammers, cutters equipped with

diamond discs, drilling, sanding and moving large stones.

Our neighbouring marble factory Fratelli Fracassini ( tel+fax: +39 0584 756703) sells and cuts blocks of stone of any

dimension. They can do any kind of marble work for artists or architecture.

Another neighbour, Antonio Luchinelli at Forma Studio, makes molds of sculptures, and casts non-metal materials

for the artistic community.

Sculptors work in Pietrasanta because it offers ideal conditions working in stone. Here are the quarries where

Carrara marble has been quarried since Roman times. The sculpting tradition has been kept alive by artists and

artisans through the ages, complemented by modern advances in techniques and technology. The Pietrasanta

and Carrara regions have also benefitted by the importation of most of the commercially quarried stone used in

art and architecture today. Stone arrives by ship from China, Argentina, Pakistan, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Sweden,

France and all parts of Italy. Pietrasanta offers the benefits of living in a small Tuscan seaside town, near the moun -

tains, filled with sculptors from all over the physical world and all strata of the art world, known to stoneheads every -

where as an artist's paradise.