Elisabetta Bovina and Carlo Pastore trained at Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Faenza and founded ELICA Studio in 1990. They have not set themselves any disciplinary boundaries: in fact, they have created projects, objects and actions in the fields of ceramics, jewellery, textiles, fashion and costume, graphics, set design and performance, and have written and spoken as militant critics of design and applied arts.
Noted nationally and internationally for their eclecticism always high quality, have managed to participate and be invited to exhibitions, commercial and cultural, of great importance, such as the Salone del Mobile in Milan, "Maison et Objet" in Paris, and the official exhibition of the Committee Italy 150°, held in Turin in 2011 and dedicated to the excellence of the artistic crafts in Italy today. Their artifacts are both self-produced and designed for other brands. In 2022 they are honored with the MAM, Master of Art and Craft Award by Cologni Foundation for Art Crafts.
They choose to use porcelain because the whiteness of this noble material is like the whiteness of notebook paper: so many pages on which to write new stories again and again.