Laura Fiume was born in Urbino, Central Italy in 1953. Her education took place in Milan at the Liceo Artistico and at the Polytechnic School of Design. In 1976 she moved to Canzo, near Como where she learned serigraphy, ceramics, and painting from the well known artist, Salvatore Fiume, her Father. Starting from 1983 Laura Fiume's ceramic production was oriented first to the creation of numbered objects and later also to that of objects for home daily use. Her ceramic works were first exhibited at the Work's II Gallery in Southampton, N.Y., an art gallery with which Laura collaborated until 1988 by exhibiting many of her paintings. Between 1990 and 1992 her pictorial and graphic production was almost totally absorbed by Japanese galleries. The 1990 exhibition at the Artesanterasmo Gallery of Milan on the theme of "Mirrors" was the only one where she exhibited her paintings with her Father. Her collaboration with that Gallery has been steady since 1988. In 1992, following a suggestion from well known architect Pepe Tanzi, laura collaborated to the launch of the Pozzi & Verga new collection of tables and chairs by including images of such pieces of furniture in her own paintings. In 1995 she was chosen as designer of the year by Meyer Mayor, the distinguished Swiss company specialising in kitchen and table linen production. Between 1992 and 2000 she had her own show-room in Milan where her collections of ceramics and her creations for leading companies like Ricchetti (tiles), Fedecheti (home fabrics), Edilkamin (fireplaces and stoves), Kaigai (textiles for clothings and bathroom towels), Rosenthal (china), and Proserpio Arredamenti (furnishings and frabrics) were on display. In 2000 Laura designed a collection of coffe cups called "The Jungle Collection" for Cellini Deutschland Gmbh and in 1999 she increased her show-room space by creating "Atelier Produzioni d'Arte" where prints, ceramics, and sculptures from European and American artists were presented. In 2000 Laura began her collaboration with Raika of Japan designing their fashion collections which have been on dispaly since 2002 in the "Show-Rroom Laura Fiume" at the Mitsokushi Department Store in Tokyo. In April 2003, as part of the events that took place during the 'Salone del Mobile' of Milan, Laura held a large exhibition at the Spazio Extè entitled "Other Rooms: a Tribute to Philippe Starck". On that occasion Laura enjoyed the collaboration of Alessi, Driade, and Flos who kindly lent her, for display in the exhibition, the pieces from their Philippe Starck production represented in her paintings. In June 2003 Laura held a one-artist exhibition at the Svetog Krsevana Gallery in Sibenik, Kroatia as part of the International Children's Festival of that town. In 2005 she gave her contribution to the restyling of the l'Arenella Hotel on the Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, by providing a number of enlarged images of her works which have become the characterizing element of the visual impact of the hotel's interiors and in the summer of the same year she held a retrospective at the Vartai Gallery in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2005 she also presented an installation within the project "Ten Arm-chairs for Ten Artists", an initiative by Molteni & C., a leading company in the furniture field, where Laura was asked to decorate a Molteni arm-chair from the "Reversi" collection and to carry out a number of paintings using the same fabrics covering their couches and arm-chairs. In 2006 there were as many as three exhibitions of Laura's. The first one, called visual amplifications was held in Fiesole, near Florence, in the museum within the building of the St. Alexander Basilica. The second one, entitled Private Stories, took place in Sansepolcro, Tuscany and was split in two parts: one at the Piero della Francesca city museum, the other at the Galleria la Loggia. The third exhibition, entitled, Trame d'Interni (plots in interiors) was hosted in Milan by the Artesanterasmo Gallery where Laura presented her new paintings on fabrics provided by well known fabric producer Enzo degli Angiuoni. On April 2007 she decorated the cow "Fish Cow" for the "Cow Parade" event in Milan. In 2006 Laura also dedicated herself to a partial restoration of the former Spinning Mill in Canzo, where her studio is located and where part of her works are exhibited. The idea of opening to the public that 19th century building, where Father and daughter worked for fifty and thirty years respectively, came after the success of the first opening on request of Fai (the national trust for italy) for their traditional spring day in March 2006. Now the "Filanda" can be visited by appointment. Laura Fiume has also illustrated two books for children published by Edizioni San Paolo with whom she also collaborated with her drawings for their G-Baby magazine. Laura Fiume has exhibited her paintings in Italy, France, the United States, and Japan. Her work is documented in a number of monographs and in many magazines specializing in culture, fashion and furniture. Since her Father's death, in 1997, Laura has been collaborating with her brother Luciano, her husband Paolo Ruocco and the Artesanterasmo Gallery of Milan to the organization of Salvatore Fiume's retrospectives and to the authentication of his works.