Ciufoli

Giacomo Ciufoli composes sculpture through Geometric Essentialism — one decisive line resolved into structure, light, and proportion. Aviation trained his eye for scale and time; now he binds materials of time — Pleistocene mammoth ivory, fossilised exotic woods, and Namibian meteorite — to forged carbon and black titanium along a single edge. Drawn in London and realised in Italy with microscope-level precision, each piece privileges character over flawlessness; inclusions are chosen to deepen authenticity. Forms are rigorous and reductive, alive with negative space, engineered to move with the body and gather a quiet patina over years."I came to jewellery through craft and flight: a grandfather who shaped copper into sculpture, an apprenticeship in Italian tailoring, and years in aviation that trained my eye for scale — and taught me to read time as material" This archival photograph — Giacomo’s grandparents with his father and aunt in Piazza della Repubblica, Rome — places his practice within a living lineage of place and memory. It marks the origin of the line he pursues: family, architecture and time held together and resolved as sculpture. His works extend that continuum, binding inherited history to “materials of time” and distilling them into precise, essential forms.