Diego Uchitel, Eric Schmitt & John Wigmore

Argentinean-born photographer Diego Uchitel moved from Buenos Aires to the United States after high school to attend the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. He soon transitioned to photography and honed his talent for working with light to develop his distinctive style: images that are ethereal, emotive, and painterly. The beauty of the human form has long been a source of inspiration and his latest work reveals abstract, sensual shapes that seem to move as light reflects and refracts off the skin. Uchitel joined RALPH PUCCI in 2007.

Eric Schmitt was born in 1955. In 1997 he left Paris to live and work at the edge of the Fontainbleau forest. In his workshop, pieces are created, designed and shaped and then entrusted to the best craftsmen in France. His creations are produced and signed in limited edition, a modern execution of the French decorative arts tradition. He joined RALPH PUCCI in 2006.

John Wigmore is a lighting designer and artist who cites natural materials, Minimalism, and the Light and Space movement of Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s as influences for his first light sculptures in 1993. He has continued to work with established architects and interior designers to build atmospheric light installations globally. His latest work is in ceramic, inspired by the clarity and restraint of Mexican Modernist Luis Barragan’s architecture, the sensitivity of Japanese tea bowls and Californian ceramic artists, which he captured in clay, Japanese paper shades and light. They are all hand-built, not slip-cast, rolled out individual slabs of clay that Wigmore pieces together almost architecturally. He lives and works in Los Angeles, where his lighting is made. He rejoined RALPH PUCCI in 2014.