BIOGRAPHY

Nicolas' passion for stones started at the age of ten when his grandfather gave him some stones, he had found in the desert of Lybia and in particular a magnificent crystallized galena. At 15 years old, as the youngest member of the "Groupe d'étude des minéraux et fossiles de Paris", he used to go around the French countryside, with the specialists of the club, to collect fossils and minerals.

In 2005, after a few years in Hong Kong and Paris, he finally started to live his dream in Florence. He got to design and make an exceptional table in hard stone marquetry (pietra dura). The materials (green of the Arno, red of Languedoc...) were drawn from old stocks jealously guarded by Florentine craftsmen. He wanted each stone to come from the same quarry as the stones used in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Then he created fifteen table trays in pietra dura.