Italian born, European raised. I am a versatile and interdisciplinary designer in between film and spatial design. Politecnico di Milano graduate with a MSc degree (LM) in “Interior and Spatial Design”. After graduating with a First Class Honours (Ba Hons) Set Design for Screen at Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL), I worked in the art department for TV & cinema. In that time I developed a strong interest in other forms of storytelling and problem solving through design such as virtual spaces, interior styling and visual merchandising, which led me to continue my studies at masters level and gain more experience in the field of spatial and interior design. Italian, fluent in English and French; I am comfortable and able to work with people from all different kinds of backgrounds, both independently and as part of a team. I am a fast learner, passionate, curious, resourceful and eager to be part and face the challenges of a demanding project.
Sept. 2013 –July 2016
LucyDreams, by Angelo Ferretti. Corona Workshop intensive, 1 Level certificate. 3D modelling and rendering
Politecnico di Milano, School of Design. (MSc) Interior and Spatial Design, Laurea Magistale 108/110
University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts. (Ba Hons) Set Design for Screen, Theatre and Screen Programme; First Class Honours
University College for the Creative Arts, Canterbury. (Foundation degree) Art and Design
European School of Brussels 1, Uccle.
European Bachelor (EB)
Académie de musique et des Arts de la parole de La Hulpe. Solfeggio Diploma, Music
[Film & Tv]
LANGUAGES
Italian, English & French Spanish & Dutch
(Native or bilingual proficiency) (Elementary proficiency)
SKILLS SOFTWARES
• Full Clean driving license
• Photography
• Technical Drawing
• Graphic Design
• Image Manipulation
• Concept design
• Model Making
• Research
• Project Management
• Vendor Management
• PR and client relations
• AutoCAD
• Cinema 4D
• Corona Render
• SketchUp
• Photoshop
• InDesign
• Illustrator
• Premiere Pro
• After effects
• Microsoft suite
• Midjourney, Chat GPT
WORK EXPERIENCE
[Spatial Design]
Studio Tiche, Milan Set, interior & exhibition designer Freelance Set, interior & exhibition designer
Studio De Siena Architetti, Milan Interior Designer/Assist. Architect
Orografie, Milan Interpreter & PR - MDW 2021 & 2024
Studio Marco Piva, Milan Interior design intern
“One Day” (2022) Rome Shoot Netflix - Drama Republic Ltd - 360 Degrees Standby Art Director
“Freeze the fear w/ Wim Hof” (2022) Bizibot design - Mathieu Weekes HungryBear Media - BBC Productions Art Director
“TRUST” (2018) Dir: Danny Boyle. Suttirat Larlarb, Patrick Rolfe MINIM UK Ltd - FX Productions Art Department Assistant, PA
January 2017
“Paddington 2” (2018)
Gary Williamson, Patrick
Warner Bros. Pictures Art Department Intern
“Victoria and Abdul” (2017) Dir: S. Frears. Alan MacDonald, Choi Ho Man Phenomenon Pictures Ltd Art Department Runner
“Denial” (2016) Dir: M. Jackson. Andrew McAlpine, Christina Moore Krasnoff - Foster Entertainment Art Department Intern
“Beauty and the Beast” (2017) Dir: B. Condon. Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Choi Ho Man
Walt Disney’s Pictures Intern then Daily Set Dec Department Assistant
[Didactic & Academic]
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Politecnico di Milano Teaching Assistant
University of the Arts London Art Temp & Student Ambassador
Sept. 2013 –July 2016
of the Arts London Course Representative
Dir: Paul King.
Rolfe
PORTFOLIO INDEX
Art and Set Dec. Department (film & tv)
Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof
Trust
Victoria and Abdul
Beauty and the Beast
Filming & modelmaking
Pinocchio
The Ant and the Grasshopper
COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL
& EDITORIAL
& EDITORIAL
The following selected projects show some examples of my work within the commercial and editorial set design fiel. Main skills: Set dressing & prop buying, prop styling, art direction
ISTITUTO MARANGONI
VODCAST (2024-25)
EDITORIAL SET DESIGN VODCAST “MAZE PILLS”
Client: Flatmates Agency, Istituto Marangoni
The brief was to design a small set to host a vodcast, an editorial project for the Fashion and design school “Istituto Marangoni”. I was commissioned by Flatmates agency as Set Designer to come up with ideas and design solutions to meet the budget, following both the agency’s vision and the client’s requirements and brand guides.
Key skills/outcomes: Set design, styling, budgeting, prop sourcing, graphic desgin, set dressing, vendor relations.
Fondale graficato mobile non rigido (telo stampato)
Quinta rigida mobile freestanding (es struttura leggera in forex stampato) Logo luminoso a parete. Possibilita di retroilluminazione
Opzione 1
Fondale telo graficato + quinta rigida + arredo mobile e props
Palette di Istituto Marangoni, accenni di rosa e nero
Sgabelli alti (70) con tavolo h100cm lunghezza 160
Set design assistant to PaolinoPaolino (Paolo Lutri). Here shown are a series of examples of set design for advertising campaigns/ commercial photoshoots.
Key skills/outcomes: prop styling, prop sourcing, set dressing.
STUDIO TICHE X MOLOTOF STUDIO (2023)
COMMERCIAL PRODUCT PHOTOSHOOT OMIA, ACQUA ALLE ROSE, BIPOD
Molotof Studio, Milan
Set design assistant to Studio Tiche. Here shown are a series of examples of set design for advertising campaigns/ commercial photoshoots.
Key skills/outcomes: Set design, food and prop styling, budgeting, prop sourcing, set dressing.
BOOLEAN (2023)
COMMERCIAL PHOTOSHOOT
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN
Boolean, Milan
Set design assistant to Studio Tiche.
The brief was to create 3 differents sets (house office, office/ co-working space and home living area) in 2 variations / scenarios, one to represent web developers and the other Data analysts.
Due to budget restrictions, the sets were created entirely in studio and mainly with the available props and furniture. The work consisted in set decorating, prop sourcing and prop selection, styling and set dressing.
Key skills/outcomes: Set styling, set design, prop sourcing, set dressing.
ART AND SET ART AND SET
DECORATION DECORATION
The following selected projects show some examples of my work within the Art and Set decoration Departments for Film & TV from the past few years across different roles and tasks: Stand-by art directing, set dressing & prop buying, art department assisting and draughting.
FREEZE THE FEAR WITH WIM HOF (2022)
TV REALITY SHOW, SEASON 1 BBC PRODUCTIONS, ITALY
Hungry Bear Media for BBC.
Production Design: Bizibot design - Mathieu Weekes
Art director: Emily Dyson
Holly Willoughby and Lee Mack follow eight celebrities embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure in the Italian mountains in sub-zero conditions. Over the course of a few weeks, the celebrities face a series of daunting, cold challenges designed to push their minds and bodies to the limit. Along the way, the celebrities are guided by recordbreaking, extreme athlete, Wim Hof, AKA ‘The Ice Man’, who believes that embracing the cold has the ability to change their lives for the better. The series is executive produced by Dan Baldwin for Hungry Bear Media, and is distributed by BBC Studios.
My credited role is Art director. My role changed throughout the production - from set decorating and dressing to stand-by art directing. I worked independently in Milan for the first weeks, prop sourcing and buying, organising pick ups and deliveries on set before joining the rest of the crew in Val D’Aosta (where the physical set was built) to dress it and then art directing once the shoot started.
Key skills/outcomes: Set decoration, styling, budgeting, organization and management, stand-by art directing.
EXAMPLE OF GRAPHIC WORK
ON LOCATION PHOTOS - SET DRESSING
TRUST (2018)
TV SERIES, SEASON 1
FX PRODUCTIONS, LONDON
Directors: Danny Boyle, Dawn Shadforth, Jonathan van Tulleken, Susanna White
Production Designer: Suttirat Larlarb; Set Decorator: Stella Fox; Sup. Art director: Patrick Rolfe
Inspired by actual events, `Trust’ delves into the trials and triumphs of one of America’s wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys. Equal parts family history, dynastic saga and an examination of the corrosive power of money, `Trust’ explores the complexities at the heart of every family, rich or poor. Told over multiple seasons and spanning the 20th century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome. His captors banked on a multimilliondollar ransom. But Paul’s grandfather, enigmatic oil tycoon J. Paul Getty Sr. -- possibly the richest man in the world -- is busy being marooned in a Tudor mansion in the English countryside with a harem of mistresses and a pet lion. Paul’s father, J. Paul Getty Jr., is lost in a daze in London and refuses to answer the phone. Only Paul’s mother, Gail Getty, is left to negotiate with the increasingly desperate kidnappers. Unfortunately, she’s broke.
My role was Art Department Assistant. Personal assistant to production designer, assisting art directors, graphic designer and stand-by art director. I was also sent out to Calabria as part of a detached UNIT to dress the locations and stand-by art directing while shooting.
Key skills/outcomes: Location survey, CAD draughting, model making, set dressing, graphic design, stand-by art directing, art department organisation, time and budget management
INTENTIONS TO CONSTRUCTION EXAMPLES
ON LOCATION PHOTOS - SET DRESSING
EXAMPLES OF GRAPHIC DESIGN WORK
VICTORIA
AND ABDUL (2017)
LIVE ACTION FEATURE FILM
BBC FILMS & WORKING TITLE FILMS, LONDON
Director: Stephen Frears
Production Designer: Alan MacDonald; Set Decorator: Michael Standish
Sup. Art director: Choi Ho Man
Period comedy drama. Mainly location based (UK & India). The film follows the relationship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim, in the last years of her reign. As their friendship deepens despite all the criticism, the queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her humanity.
My credited role was Art Department Runner. General support and assistance to all of the Art Department and stand-by set dressing.
Key skills/outcomes: Petty cash buying, stand-by and set dressing, graphics, monitoring and ordering art and office supplies, modelmaking, surveying, basic running duties between the Art Department office, the drawing and construction studios and the production office.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017)
LIVE ACTION FEATURE FILM WALT DISNEY’S PICTURES, LONDON
Director: Bill Condon
Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decorator: Katie Spencer
Art director: Choi Ho Man
The film is a live-action/CGI-animated remake of Disney’s 1991 animated film of the same name, itself an adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s eighteenthcentury fairy tale. A young woman, Belle, whose father has been imprisoned by a terrifying beast offers herself in his place, unaware that her captor is actually a prince, physically altered by a magic spell.
I was selected for the curricular internship whilst at Wimbledon College of Art. General support and assistance to the Set Decorating and Art departments. After my experience, I was called in and offered a Daily Set Dec. Department Assistant contract to work on the exterior locations (making props/dressing).
Key skills/outcomes: Model making, research, graphics, preparing presentation mount boards, documenting and sampling, prop making/styling.
RESEARCH, CHOOSING COLOUR PALETTE AND ILLUSTRATING DRAWINGS FOR CHOI HO MAN
FILMING & MODELMAKING FILMING & MODELMAKING
MODELMAKING MODELMAKING
A selection of personal projects that show some example of my work within the Production design and Art direction field, especially focusing on skills such as:
Modelmaking, set design, set dressing, location sourcing, filming.
PINOCCHIO
PRODUCTION DESIGN STUDIO
BA DEGREE THESIS PROJECT
Professors: E. Bo, K. Bradley
Fantasy live-action adaptation of “Pinocchio”, based on Walt Disney’s animation (1940) and the original story by C.Collodi (1883). About the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio created by his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. Set in Sicily, sometime in the second half of the 1800s. Using the “Earth” and “Sea” themes as key narrative and design tools, the project mainly focuses on locations, specific sets and scenes, while also giving an overall look for the story through research and visuals.
Key skills/outcomes: Research, Location & scene breakdown, Location scouting & adaptation, Set dressing & styling, Technical drawing, Model making, Filming & Editing, Graphics, Concept art and Rendering.
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
PRODUCTION DESIGN STUDIO, STOP MOTION ANIMATION
Professors: E. Bo, K. Bradley
Work team: Viviana Motta, Bo Ram Lee
Fantasy melodrama stop motion adaptation of “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, based on Aesop’s fable.
The fable follows a pretty Grasshopper enjoying life and a hardworking Ant as the seasons pass. When winter and war come, the Ant is prepared and sheltered as he worked hard to store up food for winter whereas the grasshopper finds herself dying of hunger and cold.
The fable teaches the moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.
First year Bachelors final year project.
Key skills/outcomes: Research, Screenwriting, Collaboration, Storyboarding, Prop making, Animation, Set design, Model making, Filming & Editing, Concept art.
