Paolo Soleri was born in Turin, Italy in 1919. He was awarded his Ph.D. with highest honors in architecture from the Torino Polytechnico in 1946. He came to the United States in 1947 and was in fellowship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona and at Taliesin East in Wisconsin. He returned to Italy in 1950 where he was commissioned to build "Cereamica Artistica Solimene" where he became familier with the processes in the ceramics industry which led to his award winning designs of ceramic and bronze windbells and siltcast architectural structures.

In 1956 he settled in Scottsdale, Arizona with his family and established the Cosanti Foundation, a not-for-profit educational foundation. Soleri is known for architectural and structural integrity, conceptual urban planning, university lectures and the workshops at Arcosanti... an urban laboratory in Arizona.

Every piece in the Cosanti Collection is designed by Paolo Soleri and embellished by skilled artisans in sympathy with his compositional standards.