A working marble bottega founded in 2003 by Andrea Lugarini and Raul Bertagnini.
Atelier Carrara is a working marble bottega founded in 2003 by Andrea Lugarini and Raul Bertagnini. Both trained at Carrara’s Marble Institute and then worked in different local stone workshops, learning techniques directly from older craftsmen before establishing their own atelier.
The studio describes itself as a “vera bottega d’arte” — a true art workshop — where only marble is worked and where hand carving and older workshop methods are deliberately preserved. That makes Atelier Carrara particularly relevant to the Sculptors Lexicon: it represents the continuation of Carrara’s practical carving tradition rather than simply operating as a modern fabrication shop.
The workshop collaborates with other studios locally and internationally and undertakes work in sculpture, design, architecture, funerary art, stone turning, inlay and restoration. It also organizes sculpture courses and historically oriented quarry visits, allowing artists and visitors to connect Carrara’s marble-working traditions with the landscape and quarries from which the stone comes.
The studio remains active in Carrara’s contemporary design culture as well; Atelier Carrara participated as a production partner in White Carrara 2026.
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Studio Information
- Studio type
- Bottega
- Location
- Carrara, Massa-Carrara (MS) | Tuscany | Italia, Italy
- Address
- Via Torano, 2
- Telephone
- +39 392 9037954
- Visiting notes
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Atelier Carrara is an active working marble shop, so it is best to contact Andrea Lugarini or Raul Bertagnini before visiting.
For a sculptor, this is a particularly interesting stop because the studio places unusual emphasis on working marble by hand and preserving older systems and methods. It is not merely a place to see completed sculpture; it is a workshop where the practical vocabulary of Carrara — tools, hand processes, traditional carving knowledge and material judgment — is still part of everyday production.
The studio also offers sculpture courses and quarry visits with historical explanation, which makes it particularly useful for artists who want to understand Carrara as an interconnected system: mountain, quarry, block, workshop and finished sculpture.
For the Lexicon, I would emphasize that Atelier Carrara is a particularly clear example of the small, hands-on Carrara bottega, where traditional marble craftsmanship remains central rather than incidental.