Of Swiss origin, she lived and studied in Lugano. In 1968 she moved to Milan, where she graduated in set design from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and married Italo Rota in 1976. She worked in the atelier of Alik Cavaliere, collaborated with Pierluigi Nicolin on the XVI Triennale di Milano, and with Gae Aulenti on the Musée d’Orsay project. In 1984 she began working as a set designer with Luca Ronconi. Over the course of 30 years, she collaborated with the director on opera and theatre productions in Italy and internationally, including Paris, Salzburg, Munich, Brussels, Athens, Tokyo, and Spain. She has also collaborated with numerous directors, including Liliana Cavani, Mario Martone, Alexandr Sokurov, and Paolo Sorrentino; in ballet, she worked with choreographer Daniel Ezralow and with © The George Balanchine Trust – George Balanchine. She curated the event “20 Years of Striscia la Notizia” at the Triennale di Milano and entered the Guinness World Records with the largest wall of screens in the world. Since 1991, she has been dedicated to teaching. She is Advisor Leader for the undergraduate program in Set Design at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano. She has been a professor at the Academy of Architecture of the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio and at IUAV University of Venice. Since June 2024, she has been a corresponding non-resident member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.