... shoemaking school.  Those four years working in Italian shoe factories side by side with masters of the trade changed her life. She had found her passion….. Bringing ideas to life and watching products be “born”!

During her 15 year career as a shoe designer and developer, some of her work has summited the highest peaks in the world, strutted down the catwalks of London, Paris and New York and have been chosen as some of Oprah’s “Favorite Things”.

In 2013 Angela gifted herself a leather working class for her birthday. Little did she know where that gift would lead her. While in her first class, she had a déjà-vu moment and was brought back to the shoe factory in Bologna, Italy. She finally found a way to bring the factory environment back into her life! Angela continued to study handbag making and leather working for two years under the guidance of a master French craftswoman. 

Angela strives to uphold the knowledge, techniques and savor faire passed down to her from the masters craftsmen and women who taught her in Italy and in America.

Since debuting her collection in 2016, Angela has had the privilege to present her work in some of the most prestigious fine art festivals in New York, Sausalito, Bellevue, Chicago, Baltimore, Palm Springs and Sedona. In many ways she feels she has followed in the footsteps of her late aunt, Mary Maughelli, whose paintings, and mixed media work was displayed in art galleries in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

With 360 degree involvement in every piece, Angela builds each piece from start to finish. Every creation is designed, all patterns are made and all leathers are hand selected by her. Those same two hands cut, sew, assemble and hand finish each creation.