| 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. |

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