Atelier Fogaccia
Contemporary Italian Collectible Design
All works are unique and not reproduced.
Atelier Fogaccia
Contemporary Italian Collectible Design
All works are unique and not reproduced.
Process
Cast in Rome. Shaped by hand. Each work unique.
Fonderia Boccea stands in Montespaccato, the Rome district once known as Borgata Fogaccia — the name the atelier carries. The family foundry has cast bronze there for nearly a century, founded by relatives and run today by the artist's cousins.
It is a working foundry, not a stage set for one — it casts for other sculptors and other studios, in a district that has done this work for generations without much needing to announce it.
Every piece begins as a model made by the artist's own hand, then cast in bronze by the lost-wax method — wax, ceramic shell, burnout, the pour — the same sequence the foundry has used for a hundred years, before any patina or finish is applied.
Marchetti supervises the casting and the patination of every piece directly. Nothing is delegated past that point, and nothing is corrected afterward to hide what the process leaves behind — the surface a piece arrives with is the surface it keeps.
Watch the pour — Fonderia Boccea, Rome.
Every piece is cast from an original model, under the artist's direct supervision, and is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity recording its unique number. No two pieces are alike, and none are reproduced — the certificate exists to carry that record with the work, for as long as it's owned.