A student of the American sculptor H.B. Walker, Pucci De Rossi began his artistic career in 1971 using cut metal and later reclaimed wood. He moved to France in 1977. As a sculptor of ideas, forms, and materials, he transforms everyday objects with imagination and humor, embodying the “Furniture Sculpture” trend of the 1980s.

Although his creations are ironic and offbeat, they remain perfectly functional. Calling himself a “fake designer,” he navigates between functionality and sculpture without engaging in the art-design debate of the 1990s.

His recent works take into account a certain social reality, although he refuses to consider himself a political artist. In 2012, his collaboration with the National Manufacture of Sèvres resulted in the creation of the Écrous et Boulons vase, a functional object that reinvents the classic Medici vase.