Busacca Gallery

This Is A Spectacular Ring Sculpture By Jewelry Designer Daniel Macchiarini: This ring is made with turquoise, lapis and black jade; the Dots in all of these are marble with a copper inlay surrounding them. The stone inlays are thick, making the chances of cracking the surface very minimal. *All of the art is edited and chosen by us for its high quality and workmanship before posting. These collectibles have been selected with the artist & collector in mind. We are committed to enhancing our customer’s lives by discovering creating, and pointing out only the best art we can find in the world today. We Are Taste-Makers, Art Advisers, Consultants & Publishers Of Spectacular Art Stories. Our job is to be intermediaries between buyers and sellers. We are vetting for high end art patrons. We are determined to catalog the world's most exceptional art and share it with everyone.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Macchiarini

Peter Macchiarini (August 27, 1909 – July 3, 2001) was an Italian-American California-based American Modernist jeweler and sculptor who was a pioneer in the field of avant-garde jewelry. He maintained an art studio and shop on Grant Avenue in San Francisco, California, for more than 50 years and was instrumental in organizing the first San Francisco outdoor art festival in 1938 as well as founding the Upper Grant Avenue Street Fair in 1953, an event that spawned similar artist-run festivals in the Sn Francisco Bay Area.

Macchiarini was born in Santa Rosa, California, on the Wohler Ranch in Sonoma County, in 1909. In 1923, when he was thirteen, he and his family moved to the northwestern region of Italy, where he went on to study for four years at the Art Academy in Pietrasanta. Macchiarini returned to the United States in 1928 and worked as a stonecarver with several Bay Area firms; some of which were funded by the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). While employed as a stonecarver, he worked on projects in the 1930s with such sculptors as Beniamino Bufano and Ralph Stackpole. He also studied art at the California School of Fine Art (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute).

In 1980, he was awarded a gold medal from the Association of the Lucchesi nel Mondo, which annually recognizes those who, as citizens abroad, bring honor to the Italian province of Lucca through personal merit. In 2000, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors renamed a portion of Kearny Street — near Telegraph Hill — "The Peter Macchiarini Steps" in his honor. On June 29, 2001 he was declared an official "San Francisco Legend" for his contributions to the local culture.