When Eugene Orlandini was a kid, he had a knack for restoring things. “It used to drive my mom nuts, because I would take things apart to see how they work,” he says. “I found my first color TV in the trash, and I figured out what was wrong, fixed it, and then I had my own TV when I was like 12.”

Eugene, now 55, would feel at home in a workshop fixing everyday items. Instead, he spends his days in an airy Walker’s Point studio surrounded by beautiful plaster sculptures, sconces and columns straight out of a European villa. He doesn’t describe himself as an artist, but the evidence of his craft is all around him. Everything from the old floorboards to the CD-spinning stereo has a light coating of dust from the day’s work.

The fingerprints of Orlandini Studios , a plaster creation and re

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