Antonio Migliozzi's answer to both questions is a categorical "no". His key drive is a stylistic and cultural sensibility that transcends fashion, and he believes that mere technical ability does not an artist make!
His artistic and professional career began 20 years ago, in Milan, a city that offers great opportunities to those endowed with talent and ambition. Antonio Migliozzi worked for the best jewellers in the city, and in the most prestigious goldsmiths' workshops, but all this did not satisfy him for long. He soon decided to set up on his own, and so Officina Orafa was born.
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Through a simple coincidence--or perhaps predestination?--his personal interest in history and archaeology led him to study the Longobard artefacts excavated at Trezzo sull'Adda. The Longobard seal-rings and crosses struck him as being infused with significance, and led to a synthesis with his previous work in the Art Nouveau style.
On 5 and 6 October 2002, in the Bernabò room of Trezzo Castle, he presented his first reproductions of Longobard jewellery and crosses inspired by the archaeological findings. The great success of these beautiful pieces encouraged him to continue on this path, culminating in his reproduction of the Longobard sword of Trezzo, which demanded a highly complex technique.
The motivation behind the artisan's work is always the same: to give concrete embodiment to a unique idea. To create an object whose originality and uniqueness set it apart from all the rest. Inspiration is drawn from everyday life, from the reality which surrounds us, from the forms found in nature, the vivid colours of a stone or the interlaced snakes so commonly found in Longobard decorations. The inspiration is always out there, capturing it is not difficult, it is there... either in the present, or in the beauty of a past that can return in even more magnificent form...
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