Federica Sala
Designer
Federica Sala (1986 Italy, lives and works in Milan). MFA in Contemporary Jewellery and Body Ornament
obtained in 2015 in Florence at the Alchimia school, Master's Degree in Fashion Design in 2011 at the
Politecnico di Milano. From 2010 for four years she was assistant to the Italian artist Giorgio Vigna. From
2016 to 2020 she was head of the jewellery department at IED Milan where she currently teaches.
Her work has been exhibited at the MAD in New York, at the SOFA in Chicago, at the ZIBA in Prague, at the CODA in
Holland, at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, in European and American galleries.
In 2015 she was selected with her project True Lies for the Stanislav Libensky Award, for the
innovative and experimental use of glass.
In 2016 she won the Marzee Graduate Prize with the collection Unbearable lightness. In 2017, the first piece
of the new Portraits collection, received a mention in the Professionals category of the Enjoya’t award in
Barcelona. In 2018 she was selected as an emerging glass artist for the first edition of Vetro
Under 35 at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.
In 2020 one of her unique pieces was chosen to represent Italy during the traveling exhibition between
Hungary and Austria Design Without Borders, receiving the Collector’s Choice award.
Her work belongs to private collections and is permanently exhibited in the Marzee collection in
the Netherlands.
Since 2013 Federica has been studying and researching new techniques for processing and treating glass and metal
applied to art and design.
In 2023 her research was supported by the Alexander Tutsek Stiftung in Munich, Germany.
In 2025 her new research project between art and design was selected and supported by the Corning center in the United States.
