Palmalisa Zantedeschi

Palmalisa Zantedeschi calls herself a 'marble creative'. From Verona, she comes from four generations of stonemasons and sculptors and lives near Lake Garda, just a few steps away from the atelier where she creates and works with marble and stone.

Stone-working is a family trade and ever since Palmalisa was a child, she began to experience its beauty. As a craftswoman (and as an entrepreneur), she develops projects for Architecture and Design, using the raw material as a product to make floors, walls, cladding and objects. Every day she observes the materials arriving from all over the Planet in Verona, one of the most important centres for the collection of stone materials; she travels the world in search of new quarries, she selects blocks and slabs which she proposes to the architects most sensitive to the material, developing customised and bespoke projects. These continuous observations, processes and experimentation led Palmalisa to a discovery: every fragment of material has an intrinsic life that manifests itself through apparent randomness of colour, proportion and size. Palmalisa thus began to observe the material with a new sensitivity that accompanied her towards new paths, that of collectible objects and that of art, which today live in harmony with her projects for Architecture.

The first research that Palmalisa starts is always on materials (in continuity with being a craftswoman and an entrepreneur for Design and Architecture), the second instead, that is what led her to a more artistic vision of the material today, is on processing, which Palmalisa identifies with the physical gesture of subtraction, of reducing to essence. Stone is not only beautiful, but it is eclectic, it transforms through processing revealing its multiple aspects. It can become rough, solid, soft, light, poetic matter. Palmalisa senses that it is living matter. It is from this discovery, from astonishment and wonder, that collectibles and lithic works are born.