Marie-Pierre Flori de Pulcini is a metalsmith and a jewelry designer.

She learned her trade having studied with numerous masters in the United States and Europe.

Originally from Paris France, she moved to the United States in 1977, started her training in the Arts at an early age, at home with her mother who was an artist and a famous ceramist for Limoges in France

MP later studied Music and Painting at Boston University where she majored in Classical Piano Performance.

Upon her arrival in New York City, Marie-Pierre designed costumes and sets for various dance companies around Manhattan and for the Albany Berkshire Ballet where she worked with the choreographer. Bill T. Jones

All the different mediums studied and experiences converged with her talent for design. She learned to translate those qualities through jewelry design and creation.

She has chosen the "lost wax" process to express herself.

"I gradually became fascinated with the medium of metal, a sculpture on a different scale" Wax has this endless versatility, and from the first steps of this process which is carving the design in the wax, to the second stage of creating a metal model and to the last stage of fabricating all the different elements, the results are just so gratifying.

Her work was exhibited at the Aaron Faber Gallery in New York City for a show on modern jewelry called:"jewelry in abstracted and non-objective from."
Her penchant for architecture and a flair for constructivism is strongly represented by some of the industrial shapes, kinetic at time but always full of emotions and femininity.

Marie-Pierre is a certified artist of the city of New York, a member of the JDPN and ACC.

Marie-Pierre's paintings were on exhibits in Manhattan for many years, in 1991 & 1992 she received the Soho International Art Competition award.

Jewelry Award: 2009 Gallery North, Seatauket NY.
First prize Jewelry award, Sanibel, FL, february 2010!