1. Where were you born and where are you from ?

2. What is your first memory connected to the art world ?

3. Have you always worked in the art/design field ?

Yes, I studied fashion design in Paris and Milan.

4. What led you to the design creation ?

I love textures and colors.

5. How would you describe your creative process and it influences ?

I am collecting ideas, infirmations from nature, architecture, music- everything what inspires me.

6. Could you describe a typical day of your work ?

There are either days in the workshop or in the studio – it depends on what I have to do.

7. Why did you choose the specific materials you work with ?

I like the color gold very much and the transformation from a rough material in an elegant one.

8. What are the technical particularities of your creations ?

I work a lot with sandcasting, sometimes the mold making is very complicated.

9. What advices could you give to beginning artists who would like to create sculptural design works ?

To find a job as an assistant of an artist or designer for some years to learn and study how they work.

10. If your works had to belong to a design movement, in which one would you define it ?

11. What designers and artists have influenced you ?

12. What contemporary designers do you appreciate ?

13. What contemporary artists (in any kind of art) have you been inspired by ?

Christian Lacroix, Kris Ruhs, Valentin Loelman

14. If you had to summarize your creations in one word or sentence, what would it be ?

15. Is there anything you would like to add?

Proust Questionnaire with very short answers (one or a few words) :
(The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Other historical figures who have answered confession albums are Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Cézanne…)

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

2. What is your greatest fear?

The current political situation in the world –  it seems to be very fragile and of course our environmental pollution

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Envy

5. Which living person do you most admire?

Pollini

6. What is your greatest extravagance?

Doing what I like

7. What is your current state of mind?

Grateful, lucky

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Self-esteem

9. What is the quality you most like in a man ?

10. What is the quality you most like in a woman ?

11. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

12. Which talent would you most like to have?

To memorize

13. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

More serenity

14. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Being an artist and having two children – juggling between these two

15. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

A tree

16. Where would you most like to live?

Vienna, Paris, countryside

17. What is your most treasured possession?

My children, time 

18. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

War

19. What is your favorite occupation?

Creating something

20. What is your most marked characteristic?

21. What do you most value in your friends?

22. Who are your favorite writers?

Bernhard Aichner, Hermann Hesse

23. Who is your hero of fiction?

Alice

24. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Emilie Flöge

25. Who are your heroes in real life?

Doctors, scientists

26. What are your favorite names?

27. What is it that you most dislike?

Bad taste

28. What is your greatest regret?

I don´t get as involved in the environment as I want

29. How would you like to die?

30. What is your motto?

Carpe diem