He attended the Accademia Albertina, first training under Agostino Bosia, but later he was a pupil and protege of Felice Casorati.
By 1922, he began a long collaboration with the "Lenci" company of Turin producing ceramics.
The next year he was made professor of Scenography for the Scuola Superiore di Architettura of Turin.
In 1927, he participated in the III Biennale di Monza, and at the Exposition d'Artistes Italiens Contemporaines in Geneva, and the Promotrice of Turin.
The group was formed of Jessie Boswell (1881–1956), Nicola Galante (1883–1969), Carlo Levi (1902–1975), Francesco Menzio (1899–1979), and Enrico Paulucci Delle Roncole (1901–1999).