“This shop supports the organization Progetto Metamorphosi, which promotes the use of recycled material to create art and design and opportunities of work. The person who curates the shop on behalf of Progetto Metamorphosi is Ilaria Sadun. Beside our studio in Calcata active since 1997,we started in 2007 an organization to promote the work of artist and artisans using recycled material. We do projects with schools and events with public or private organizations.  We have an ongoing project in Valença, Bahia and Brazil  to support a group of talented women who are otherwise unemployed. We initiated it in the year 2007 with the ONG Banca Comunitaria Mais Vida, a project for street kids and poor family kids. We got to meet their mothers and the rest is history!”

ILARIA Sadun:
“I am Italian. I lived and worked in other places, spending one year in sunny California and two years in Nicaragua (which is still in my heart). Traveling in Peru in 1994, I met a woman who was making glasses and other objects by cutting and grinding bottles.Her father started the small workshop 50 years before. I quit  my official career as an architect in 1995 and started my own business based on recycled art and crafts when I was living in Ometepe, a small island in Nicaragua. I was making money selling my watercolor botanical illustrations, hand made tie dye clothes made with recycled mosquito nets and old textiles, and jewerly made with seashells. After I voluntereed in Ometepe I moved into an old trimaran sailboat on the Pacific coast for a year. When I came back to Italy I didn’t fit in my native Rome and I moved to Calcata, a small medieval village in the middle of a natural reserve www.calcata.info. In 1997 I was able to start my dream, Metamorphosi. It’s hasn’t been easy, but here I still am, now, and still using only recycled material. Our studio overlooks a green valley and we work in harmony and with good music on all the time, sometime just listening to the sounds of nature. I have two little girls, four cats and a dog.”