Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School:
It is thanks to the expert teaching skill of the school's well-qualified teaching staff, supported from time to time by professional operators and designers from the international jewellery world. The school's founder, Giò Carbone - who besides adopting traditional methods, is also a master of more rare and experimental techniques - relies on an exceptionally well-qualified teaching staff, as Pasqualina Are and Shinobu Nozue. Stone setting courses are conducted by Francesco Pinzauti and Mario Boscherini.
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Giuseppe Casale is a true master of burin engraving. Gemmology courses are held by Ilaria Pistolesi. History of Jewellery is taught by Patrizia Meloni, and Maria Cristina Bergesio, a great expert in contemporary jewellery.
Enameling lessons are entrusted to the skills of Sachiko Honami Chino. Over the last 10 years the school has received great acclaim for its jewellery design courses, as a result of the professionalism and commitment of Jasmina Carbone, Valentina Callo, Mauro Vegliante.
Courses:
Since 1987 we have held courses leading to the award of recognised Qualification Diplomas. Our training courses in Florence and Lucca, Tuscany range from one to three years in Jewellery Making, Jewellery Design, and Stone Setting. As well as this, every year intensive short courses and Workshops, Hand engraving courses and CAD courses. Since 2003, the school has been the only private Training Agency accredited by the Tuscan Regional Authority to run training courses in the jewellery/goldsmithery sector. The school has also always enjoyed collaboration with the top schools and most established institutes around the world.
All courses are designed to ensure that everyone receives adequate training for their needs, with a large number of lessons, all given by well-qualified teachers (craftspeople, artists, designers and professionals). The lessons are held in Italian, and foreign students are required to have a basic knowledge of Italian.