Andrea Salvetti was born in Bozzano near Lucca on 10th August 1967. After specialising in the arts at school he went on to study Architecture at the University of Florence.
In 1993 he started his work a san artist-artisan in his laboratori in the Tuscan hills where he created furniture-sculptures with particolar attention to the combination of new technology and ancient techniques.
In 1999 with the project “Con molto Piacere” presented at the Biennale di Venezia he began to explore the relationship between art and food enabling him to combine the activities of sculptor and passionate cook.
In 2004 he and his family permanently moved to their farmstead where, in direct contact with nature, he can develop more easily the reccurent themes in his work.