Giulia Peyrone: art where it’s least expected
Interview with the Italian-Thai contemporary artist and designer
Jane Farrell
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Italian-Thai artist Giulia Peyrone is a contemporary artist and designer who established her first studio in Brooklyn, New York, in 2016. Now in Florence, you may have seen her large-scale installations beside Ponte Vecchio and piazza de’ Pitti in a somewhat unusual setting: construction sites. Giulia was inspired to beautify the otherwise cold exterior of scaffolding and to insert contemporary art into contexts where it might not be expected.
With a background in fashion design, her work takes a fabric focus with textiles as her main artistic output. Three years after opening her studio in Brooklyn, she launched ‘GIULIA’, her soft accessories line consisting of Thai silk scarves, bags and, most recently, furniture. In August 2020, Peyrone introduced her second studio to pursue her varied practices of painting, drawing, printma