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He replaced his youthful desire to academically pursue the beauty of thoughts and words from his studies of philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in decades of stormy transitional times with the beauty of manufacturing creation in his Artistic Craft Workshop "Marquetry Design".Since 2012, he is the founder and owner of the "Marquetry Design" artistic craft atelier, in which the traditional manufacturing technique of marquetry is nurtured, with the basic intention of affirming and promoting the almost forgotten and marginalized values of craft work as and the aesthetics of modern living through the production of furniture and interiors using that old art and craft technique.ACHIEVEMNTS AND AWARDS2011 - awarded Honorable Mention (Specialita Items) of the contest Veneer Tech Craftsman's Challenge 2011 Veneer Technologies, Inc.Newport, USA.2012 - Establishment of a craft workshop.2013 - State awarded certificate of the Ministry of Finance and Economy that confirms that products of entrepreneurial craft shop "Marquetry Design"are considered as an art crafts have a special label "product of artistic craftsmanship" 2014 - participation at the Muscat International Exhibition for Arts, Heritage and Creativity 2014, Sultanate of Oman.2015 - at the invitation of the International Society for the study of history of medicine making motives of the Dutch surgeon from the XVI century Andrea Vesalius,2016 - master class in marquetry technique, Kyrgyzstan, ethno village Almaluu, Lake Issyk Kul and Bishkek, at the invitation G. Aitiev Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts.2019 - participation in the First International Festival in Kokand, Fergana Region, Uzbekistan,2020 - Making a marquetry motif with a national theme for the Protocol Service of the Ministry of European Integration.2020/2021/2022 - winner of the 2020/2021/2022 Veneer Tech Craftsman’s Challengein the Specialty Products category.2022 - Listed and presented on the platform of the Homo Faber Michelangelo Foundation,the Foundation for the Protection and Promotion of European Crafts and Applied Arts2023 - Laureate of the award "merited citizen" of the municipality of Temerin for his contribution to the promotion of traditional crafts and arts and crafts activities, as well as to the promotion of the value of the local environment, Vojvodina and the Republic of Serbia.2023 -Participation in the II International Festival of Handicrafts in Kokand, Uzbekistan.2023 - Winner of the International Craft Award 2023, in the Craftperson of the year category, New Delhi, India.