AMADO-GRAVAGNO

We are Fernando Amado and Paulina Gravagno, a husband-wife team of dollmakers living and working  on Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

Here, at the very gates of argentinian Patagonia, between the Pampa, the sea and the mountains, we unleash our creativity.

Inspired by music, movies, photographers, illustrators, our favourite characters come alive: warriors or fairies, tender little gnomes or historic ladies, realistic or cartoonish, from our soul or by request, we are always looking not only for a pleasant  aesthetic and to express ourselves, also  the fully functionality of our dolls as toys and objects of art at one time.

After many years of working with epoxy clay and mixed media, we evolved to other materials. We chose porcelain for its nobility, versatility and resistance, and we start to looking for new horizons for our work. Since 2012, we are exclusively dedicated to make ball jointed dolls and , more recently, we include 1:12 scale figures.

Our porcelain dolls are made from our original dolls sculpted on epoxy clay or  sculptor's wax . Sometimes we sculpt the originals directly on the raw porcelain to make the master pieces. We make our own plaster molds from those originals.

Painting, hairstyling and costume are made by our selves based on our own designs or on request of the buyer. From those earlier dolls and figures in epoxy clay we still preserve the use of acrylics, lacquers, found objects and mixed media details to finishing and embellish our porcelain bjd dolls.

Every doll takes a large amount of dedicated hours of careful craftsmanship to be completed, therefore, there isn't two alike.

Each one is an unique piece of art.

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