Studio Pescarella opened in January 2002, realizing the vision of Jaya Schuerch and other sculptor colleagues, 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 from place to place.

Our neighboring 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 neighbor, Antonio Luchinelli at Forma Studio, makes molds of sculptures, and casts non metal materials

for the artistic community.

These sculptors work in Pietrasanta because it offers ideal conditions for an artist 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 are 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 mountains, filled with sculptors from

all over the physical world and all strata of the art world, known to stoneheads everywhere as an artist's paradise.