Fiorella Fasciati

For quite practical reasons, Fiorella Fasciati started her career by training to become a primary school teacher. In 1977 she moved to Basel where she took evening courses at the Basel School of alongside her teaching work. Soon thereafter, she completed a four-year course of training to become a textile designer. Once she completed her studies – where carpets were already a subject of particular interest – and received her degree, she was hired as the first in-house designer for Ruckstuhl. Fasciati began investigating colour, developing simple patterns, promoting the production of the first area carpets and designing the company’s presentations. Since 1997 she has been working as a freelance designer. Colour has increasingly come to be the focus of her design activities. In 1998 she began teaching at the Basel School of Design, where in 2001 she was commissioned to set up and supervise a two-year further education course in textile design.