Alessio Boschi

Barbie’s jewels

Do you like pink? Do you want to wear pink jewelry? Are you looking for a pink necklace? Or a bracelet? Or … Here are many ideas ♦

There are many reasons to wear pink jewelry, Barbie’s favorite color. The first is that it is the light version of marsala, announced color of the year, according to Pantone. In addition, it is definitely more suited to this season; the second reason is that its tone, even the one tinged with gray tinge, embellishes any type of skin. And This alone would be enough to convince anyone. But there is another side to act as an incentive and comes from English: think pink!It means thinking positive. And indeed a beautiful bright pink is a burst of energy, a stimulus to good mood. So, although many of the color names have lost their multiplicity of meanings, even in some languages in common phrases characterize specific moods. So, ring, earrings or bracelet have also colored stones, faceted or cabochon, translucent or opaque. Provided that they are pink.

Anello in oro bianco con diamanti e zaffiri rosa
Nigaam, anello in oro bianco con diamanti e zaffiri rosa

And more, pink is a positive color. It takes its name from the fragrant flower of the same name. But perhaps you don’t know that it was born quite recently: the name rose was used for the first time to indicate a shade of color only at the end of the 17th century. In the West (especially Europe and the United States), pink is the color associated with concepts of charm, kindness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity and romance. If the hue is very light, it is associated with chastity and innocence. On the contrary, a bright pink suggests eroticism and seduction.

Petit Joli, anello in oro rosa, calcedonio e diamanti
Petit Joli, anello in oro rosa, calcedonio rosa e diamanti by Pasquale Bruni

The history of pink
One could write a history of the color pink. But, undoubtedly, the maximum popularity reached it in the mid-eighteenth century, when pastel colors became very fashionable in all the courts of Europe. The pink color in particular was highly appreciated by Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764), lover of King Louis XV of France, who often wore clothes that combined blue and pink. Not only that: she had a particular shade of pink created especially for her by the Sevres porcelain factory, apparently with small additions of blue, black and yellow.

Madame de Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour

Pink stones
But let’s talk about jewelry: in addition to pink gold, you have a wide choice of stones that have shades of rose. The most precious, and most expensive, is undoubtedly the diamond. Diamonds with pink shades are buyed for millions of dollars during the auctions. But luckily there are many other stones that also have this color tone in their repertoire: quartz, sapphire, mystic topaz, rhodolite garnet, morganite, kunzite, Malaya garnet, tourmaline, spinel, opal, zircon, pink pearl, moonstone , coral, smithsonite, pezzottaite, rhodochrosite and rhodonite. You only have the problem of choosing one.

Matilde de Bounvilles

Tiffany, anello Sugar Stacks di Paloma Picasso in oro rosa 18 carati con pavé di zaffiri rosa.
Tiffany, anello Sugar Stacks di Paloma Picasso in oro rosa 18 carati con pavé di zaffiri rosa.
Tamara Comolli, braccialetto Mikado Romance in oro rosa con quarzi, e morganite rosa.
Tamara Comolli, braccialetto Mikado Romance in oro rosa con quarzi, e morganite rosa.
Vhernier, orecchini Eclisse in oro bianco con rhodonite, cristallo di rocca, madreperla e diamanti
Vhernier, orecchini Eclisse in oro bianco con rhodonite, cristallo di rocca, madreperla e diamanti
Collezione Millebolle, anello in oro rosa, diamanti grigi, rodolite. Anello oro rosa, diamanti grigi, quarzo rosa
Minù, collezione Millebolle, anello in oro rosa, diamanti grigi, rodolite.
Anello oro rosa, diamanti grigi, quarzo rosa
Anello con diamante rosa di 8,42 carati, fancy rosa intenso, taglio brillante, ma «modificato rettangolare», chiarezza VVS1. AI lati due diamanti baguette
Anello con diamante rosa di 8,42 carati, fancy rosa intenso, taglio brillante, ma «modificato rettangolare», chiarezza VVS1. AI lati due diamanti baguette
Alessio Boschi, collezione Naturalia anello Peony con morganite centrale
Alessio Boschi, collezione Naturalia anello Peony con morganite centrale
Van Cleef & Arpels, orecchini Papillons in oro rosa con zaffiri rosa e diamanti
Van Cleef & Arpels, orecchini Papillons in oro rosa con zaffiri rosa e diamanti
Etho Maria, bracciale La Serpentine in oro rosa con zaffiri rosa e diamanti brown
Etho Maria, bracciale La Serpentine in oro rosa con zaffiri rosa e diamanti brown
Mary Ching, Wing, in oro rosa e zaffiri
Mary Ching, Wing, in oro rosa e zaffiri
Anello Thalessa, in oro rosa 18 carati, tormalina, zaffiri, tormalina bicolore
Daniela Villegas, anello Thalessa, in oro rosa 18 carati, tormalina, zaffiri, tormalina bicolore
Brumani, Baobab collection Rosé, anello con diamanti, quarzo e tormaline brasiliane rosa
Brumani, Baobab collection Rosé, anello con diamanti, quarzo e tormaline brasiliane rosa
Irene Neuwirth, orecchini a forma di rosa in opale inciso, rhodocrosite tagliata a goccia e diamanti.
Irene Neuwirth, orecchini a forma di rosa in opale inciso, rhodocrosite tagliata a goccia e diamanti.
Olive
Larkspur & Hawk, collana con topazi rosa sfaccettati
Yoko London, anello con perla barocca rosa e pavé di diamanti
Yoko London, anello con perla barocca rosa e pavé di diamanti
Chantecler, orecchini Capri in oro rosa con ametista, fosfosiderite, zaffiri rosa e diamanti
Chantecler, orecchini Capri in oro rosa con ametista, fosfosiderite, zaffiri rosa e diamanti
Marie-Hélène de Taillac, orecchini in oro giallo con due tipi di quarzi rosa da 45 carati complessivi e due spinelli rosa più scuro
Marie-Hélène de Taillac, orecchini in oro giallo con due tipi di quarzi rosa da 45 carati complessivi e due spinelli rosa più scuro
Sutra, anello in oro rosa con diamanti e spinelli rosa e viola
Sutra, anello in oro rosa con diamanti e spinelli rosa e viola
Brumani, Baobab collection Rosé, orecchini con diamanti, quarzo e tormaline brasiliane rosa
Brumani, Baobab collection Rosé, orecchini con diamanti, quarzo e tormaline brasiliane rosa

Alessio Boschi and the charm of ancient Persia

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Alessio Boschi is a Renaissance jeweler. That is, he is not satisfied with designing and making simple rings or necklaces, but he has an interdisciplinary attitude: he draws, collects images, is inspired by artists, architects and poets. And above all, he tells. His most famous pieces are not just jewels, but entire stories that Alessio Boschi tells through myths, travels and traditions. For this reason the most extraordinary pieces of him themselves become concentrates of narration, jewels with different semantic levels: the aesthetic one, obviously, the one related to their material value, and the more fascinating one, related to the cultural dimension that inspired the object. A perfect example of this way of interpreting jewelry is the latest creation by Alessio Boschi: a ring is dedicated to Rumi, an Iranian poet of the thirteenth century.

Anello ispirato al poeta persiano Rumi. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Anello ispirato al poeta persiano Rumi. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Fascinated by the traditions of the Persian world, the jeweler was fascinated by the strongly spiritual verses marked by Rumi’s personal and meditative relationship with the divinity. An approach that Boschi still felt very current in the period of the pandemic, which favored introspection and reflection. As always, in his creations the incredible technique in building a jewel starts from a very precise idea: in this case the rotating movement of the ring recalls the dance of the dervishes, a practice that consists in turning on oneself to the sound of music for forget the ego and focus on God. The round shape takes up the dome of the mausoleum of Mevlana, in Konya, in the arid Anatolian steppe, where the poet died. Turquoise are the twisted columns inside the building. And under the dome, which opens, Alessio Boschi has reserved a surprise, his specialty.
Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Orecchini Pink Shirazi in oro rosa, diamanti, zaffiri rosa, perle
Orecchini Pink Shirazi in oro rosa, diamanti, zaffiri rosa, perle
Collana Pink Shirazi in oro rosa, diamanti, zaffiri rosa, perla
Collana Pink Shirazi in oro rosa, diamanti, zaffiri rosa, perla

L'anello è realizzato in oro bianco, raro turchese iraniano, smeraldi
L’anello è realizzato in oro bianco, raro turchese iraniano, smeraldi







Alessio Boschi among seven princesses

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The ancient tale of the seven princesses is revived in the collection of Alessio Boschi ♦ ︎

From the Italian architecture of the Renaissance to the fascinating world of nature, from the classicism of the Roman era to Persian fairy tales: Alessio Boschi is not only a jeweler, but also a creative who would have lived at ease with the sixteenth-century humanists in Florence. One of his new collections, for example, is dedicated to the history of the Seven Princesses.

Anello a forma di turbante
Anello a forma di turbante

Between fairy tale and literature, the story of the seven princesses was written by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, who lived between 1140 and 1202 in Ganca, a city in the country that today is Azerbaijan. Ganjavi recounted the life of the legendary Sassanid ruler Bahram Gur (420‒438) who, according to legend, married seven princesses from seven different countries. For each of his wives he built domed palaces, with different colors and decorations and representing different planets. Every day of the week the king visited a different wife. Imagine the rest. Of course, in the era of the #metoo, history can raise the eyebrows of those who censor texts and works of art from the past because they are not in harmony with today’s morality.
Collezione Seven Princess, orecchini trasformabili
Collezione Seven Princess, orecchini trasformabili

But Alessio Boschi’s earrings and rings with carved emeralds, amethysts and lapis lazuli easily overcome any debate linked to current events: like the fable to which they are inspired, jewels release imagination and surprises. Rings that open and reveal a hidden bracelet, earrings that sway like candle flames: the mystery of the Orient interpreted by a jeweler of the West.

Alessio Boschi, orecchini con tormaline
Alessio Boschi, orecchini con tormaline
Collezione Seven Princess, orecchini con zaffiri e citrini
Collezione Seven Princess, orecchini con zaffiri e citrini
Collezione Seven Princess, orecchini con ametiste e perle
Collezione Seven Princess, orecchini con ametiste e perle
Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com







Alessio Boschi, the Imperial Rome at Couture





Alessio Boschi at the Couture Show: one of the great jewelry artists shows the latest creations at the Las Vegas event ♦ ︎

Alessio Boschi’s creative highways lead to two different places: the first is the tradition of classical culture, between architecture and sculpture of Italy, miniatures and the Renaissance.
At the Couture Show, for example, Alessio Boschi does not neglect this creative vein, that inspired by classical art, starting from that of ancient Rome. As evidenced by the large necklace, which is accompanied by a ring and a pair of earrings, under the name of Imperial Acanthus. Acanthus leaves were an ornament that was used in Greek and Roman architecture. In Roman times the composite capital was born from the union of the lower part of the Corinthian capital, with the acanthus leaves, and of the Ionic capital. The acanthus had a strong symbolic value, in connection with the Augustan propaganda of a return to the golden age and to the cult of Apollo. Golden age that is evoked in the necklace with extraordinary Tahiti pearls and precious stones, together with two cameos always decorated with classic figures.

Collana Imperial Acanthus
Collana Imperial Acanthus

It is a style consistent with another exceptional piece by Alessio Boschi, a necklace in pure neoclassical style. A millennial leap that, however, has the same antiquity of the classical era as its subject. In this case, it is a precious and faithful necklace to the nineteenth-century taste: 18 strands of Baby Akoya pearls in a natural color and a large, magnificent, authentic cameo. In fact, the shell with the large head of Zeus refers to Tommaso Saulini, the most famous Roman engraver of the time. His works were a must-have in the nineteenth century, a souvenir of the Eternal City that cannot be renounced for the upper middle class and the international aristocracy who came to Rome for the Grand Tour. In addition, the Italian jeweler, like the refined dandy of then, it was inspired by Canova and Thorvaldsen, disseminating in the mount stylistic elements taken from the Greek and Latin sculptural tradition: a blaze of palms, acanthus leaves, garlands are engraved on the back.

Collier neoclassico, Alessio Boschi
Collier neoclassico, Alessio Boschi

This care for detail, for the finish even in the most hidden parts is precisely the Boschi signature. And, again, on the jewel there is the muted red of rubellite pearls, a shade beloved by Napoleon and also used in Egyptian art. But the real surprise is the pieces that make up the jewel: the hanging pearl fringe comes off and can be used as a brooch. Function already present in the origin (and fortunately maintained) of the cameo that is only inserted in the new structure. A tilting system makes the day and night of the Medici tombs appear, a dip in the Renaissance that recalls the classical age.

La collana con il cameo-spilla staccato
La collana con il cameo-spilla staccato

But the second place of creativity of Alessio Boschi is that of nature, with high jewelry that would like also to Greta Thunberg would also like. For example, with the Melting Arctic ring: a jewel that is a small world, as often happens with Alessio Boschi’s creations. The ring is built on a band in 18 carat white gold studded with white diamonds and micro Paraiba. The dome of the ring is a sculpted white topaz, which looks like a block of melting ice due to global warming. In short, high jewelry with a social message. The dome, however, opens and inside there are three bears, a mother bear with two cubs, surrounded by a series of blue moonstones, representing drops of water and branches of icicles set with sparkling gems.

Alessio Boschi, Artic Ring
Alessio Boschi, Artic Ring

Attention: the puppies are separated from the mother due to layers of loose ice frosted with quartz, floating apart. In short, a jewel and at the same time a theater, with furrows that emphasize the distance between one ice and another underlined by dark blue enamel (the sea that creates fractures in the ice) while white bears are attached to pieces of ice and they are carved in Tagua walnut, a South American tree, also called vegetable ivory.
Furthermore, the ring can stand upright because of its flat bottom sculpted with concentric ripples that imitate the circles created by a drop when it falls on a surface of the water, another reference to the melting ice in the Arctic region due to the climate changes.




Il retro dell'Artic Rinf
Il retro dell’Artic Rinf
Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Il cameo neoclassico sulla collana
Il cameo neoclassico sulla collana
Spilla a cameo con l'effige di Zeus
Spilla a cameo con l’effige di Zeus







The 12 designers of VicenzaOro September





The 12 jewelers which will be in the Design Room at VicenzaOro September. Among the new entries Tomasz Donocik and Yeprem. Stephen Webster is also coming ♦ ︎

Ieg, the company that organizes VicenzaOro, has observed the lesson of Baselworld: communicating and avoiding a precipitous decline. Right, then, that promotes itself well in advance and proves to be alive and well. Indeed, with interesting news. For example, those concerning the Design Room, the space dedicated to fanciful and deserving jewelers’ boutiques. A formula which, among other things, it has been replicated in other exhibitions.

L'area Design Room a VicenzaOro September
L’area Design Room a VicenzaOro September

Here, then, the first novelties of VicenzaOro September, which this year is anticipated from 7 to 11 September. The Design Room, located inside the Icon pavilion, will complement some of the most important international innovations with appearances now consolidated in Vicenzaoro such as Marie Mas, Lydia Courteille and Alessio Boschi. Among these, also Tomasz Donocik, a Polish designer who lives and works in London, already named Jeweler of the year in the United Kingdom: we have written about him other times on gioiellis.com. Stylistically very contemporary, with a language that speaks to a sophisticated and mature public, he works in an artisanal way, exclusively in 18-carat gold, pink or white, use the best precious stones and has succeeded over time to innovate while respecting the harmony of forms.
Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi

Also Yeprem, a Lebanese designer famous for his diamond creations, and the Greek Lefteris Margaritis will also be present in the Design Room. Sicis, Mattia Cielo and Alessa Jewelry are also back. Finally, the presences of Eclats Jewelry, Cedille Paris and Netali Nissim are planned, with its iconic collection of prêt-à-porter talismans.




Lydia Courteille. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Lydia Courteille. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Tomasz Donocik
Tomasz Donocik

Yeprem, il bracciale Ararad della Y-Conic collection, vincitore dei Couture Awards
Yeprem, il bracciale Ararad della Y-Conic collection, vincitore dei Couture Awards

Orecchini di Marie Mas indossati
Orecchini di Marie Mas indossati

Yuvraj Pahuja co-fondatore di Alessa
Yuvraj Pahuja co-fondatore di Alessa

Mattia Cielo
Mattia Cielo

Netali Nissim
Netali Nissim







The surprising roses of Alessio Boschi

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The Rose de France series by Alessio Boschi: a story of high jewelery full of surprises ♦ ︎

High jewelery: Alessio Boschi’s Rose de France necklace is inspired by the 18th century rose gardens of Marie Antoinette, the queen guillotined during the French Revolution, and rehabilitated with a historical revision, as well as successful films. And since Alessio Boschi more than a designer is an artist who works with gold and precious stones, but draws inspiration from the history of culture, here is the jewel presented at VicenzaOro needs an article in itself. Not only because it is an elaborate creation of goldsmith’s art, but also because it is one of those pieces outside the usual canons of jewelry. As is the custom of Alessio Boschi.

The necklace, among other things, reserves hidden surprises: another characteristic of the Roman jeweler based in Bangkog.

Alessio Boschi, Rose de France necklace
Alessio Boschi, Rose de France necklace

The Rose de France necklace is made of stones in pastel colors, orange enamel prongs that, while fixing the stone to the frame, perform a minor decorative function, but essential as a whole: they represent the pistils. The back shows a high quality craftsmanship: the pieces can move to better adapt to the décolleté. On the metal, the engraved goblets collect petals: here Alessio Boschi has used the technique en tremblant, which allows some parts of the flower to vibrate with the movement of the body wearing the jewel. Just like they were real vegetable petals. The goblets are nothing more than geometric shapes defined by the hand-cut, according to the a-jour technique invented to highlight the light of the stones on the other side, that is the front part.

Not only that, the closure, hidden by a diamond, can be positioned at different heights to modulate the length of the necklace.

Valeria Boschi indossa la collana Rose de France
Valeria Boschi indossa la collana Rose de France

The versatility could not be missing: the pendant part of the necklace can be detached to become a long brooch or a pair of asymmetrical earrings.
The closure is a rose. In short, by now we know, one of the main characteristics of the jewels of Boschi is the jewel in the jewel, with the hidden lever that opens a secret casket, in which a motto is engraved or drawn a miniature, or the mechanical component that makes the object so versatile that it turns into three different jewels with as many uses. And inevitably, despite being aware of all this, Alessio Boschi always manages to surprise. Monica Battistoni





Alessio Boschi, collana Rose de France
Alessio Boschi, collana Rose de France scomponibile

Il set della collana
Il set della collana

Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com
Alessio Boschi. Copyright: gioiellis.com

Maria Antonietta con una delle sue rose
Maria Antonietta con una delle sue rose







In 12 in the Design Room





Here are the 12 creators present in the Design Room at VicenzaOro January 2019 ♦ ︎

VicenzaOro warms the engines and anticipates the names of the 12 creatives who will be in the Design Room in January. The Design Room, introduced a couple of years ago by the previous management of the event, is a space dedicated to niche brands, and of high value. Young designers, but also established names in the jewelry scene, but always with strong creative skills.

So here are the 12 designers of VicenzaOro January: Alessio Boschi, Alessa Jewelry, Anna Maccieri Rossi, Bee Goddess, Cedille, Lydia Courteille, Eclats Jewels, Mattia Cielo, Magerit, Marie Mas, Monica Rich Kosann, Sicis.

L'area Design Room a VicenzaOro September
L’area Design Room a VicenzaOro September

Some, like Alessio Boschi, Alessa or Magerit, have already been present at the Design Room of VicenzaOro, while others are making their debut. For Mattia Cielo, for example, it is a return to VicenzaOro after many seasons of Baselworld, while for the micromosaics of Sicis it is an absolute first.
The characteristics of the designers are also very different: Alessio Boschi or Lydia Courteille are part of the world of high jewelery, even if with creative features that make them unique. Bee Goddess or Anna Maccieri Rossi proposes, instead, an original fine jewelry, Magerit prefers a late baroque sculptural style, Monica Rich Kosann is a brand of fine jewelry of wide consumption, Cedille puts the accent on an ethnic style, and Mattia Cielo on a technological design.




Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi
Anello Flamingo, oro rosa, rodocrosite, zaffiri, rubini, diamanti neri e bianchi, zaffiri orange e rosa
Lydia Courteille, anello Flamingo, oro rosa, rodocrosite, zaffiri, rubini, diamanti neri e bianchi, zaffiri orange e rosa
thumb alessa
Anello di Alessa
Bee Goddess, anello in oro rosa con diamanti bianchi, blu e neri
Bee Goddess, anello in oro rosa con diamanti bianchi, blu e neri
Daniel Calvo, designer di Magerit
Daniel Calvo, designer di Magerit
Bracciale della linea Pavone di Mattia Cielo
Bracciale della linea Pavone di Mattia Cielo

Sicis, anello Arabesque in micromosaico, oro bianco, diamanti e rubino
Sicis, anello Arabesque in micromosaico, oro bianco, diamanti e rubino







VicenzaOro, among the news there is the farewell of Marzotto





The vice president of Ieg, Matteo Marzotto, leaves the company with controversy, while they preparing the edition of VicenzaOro January ♦ ︎

There are already the first changes for the next edition of VicenzaOro January. But at the appointment of the winter edition of the jewelery fair, controversy also shine. That can not leave the insiders indifferent.

A few days ago, in fact, Matteo Marzotto, vice president of IEG, a company born from the union of Fiera Rimini with Fiera Vicenza, has resigned from his position, in a controversy with the octogenarian president of Italian Exhibition Group, the very senior Lorenzo Cagnoni.

Da sinistra, Matteo Marzotto, Lorenzo Cagnoni, Ugo Ravanelli
Da sinistra, Matteo Marzotto, Lorenzo Cagnoni, Ugo Ravanelli, ad di Ieg

It is not a little good-bye, as Marzotto must be credited with having relaunched VicenzaOro, above all at a difficult time for the Italian economy. New ideas, dynamism and personal relationships of Marzotto were the recipe for the new face of the format, which was then successfully exported abroad. All this, however, does not seem to have been enough for the new management of the company. More than a merger between two partners, it is the sense of the farewell of Marzotto, it was a question of an OPA of Rimini on Vicenza. And for Ieg, whose goal is to be listed on the stock exchange, Marzotto’s leave is not a minor goodbye.

The distance had already appeared clear during the last edition of VicenzaOro September, in which Marzotto was not involved.

Matteo Marzotto, presidente di Fiera Vicenza (a sinistra) e Corrado Facco, direttore generale
Matteo Marzotto, ex presidente di Fiera Vicenza (a sinistra) e Corrado Facco, ex direttore generale

In any case, the Veneto entrepreneur did not use half-terms and denounced in a letter the lack of “institutional respect of the minority shareholder, too often ill-tolerated and kept on the sidelines, even on occasions of important decisions, such as that of assignment of the design for the enlargements of the exhibition areas, brought to the board by ad Ravanelli to things widely done and for mere disclosure”.
Marzotto’s letter also underlines what the experts have been saying negatively for some time: the hasty dismissal of the former director of Fiera Vicenza, Corrado Facco, Marzotto’s right-hand man and co-author of the re-launch of VicenzaOro.
“The way we look is practically opposite on everything, except on the goodness of the merger of the two fair companies and their listing on the Stock Exchange”, concluded Marzotto bitterly.

VicenzaOro September
VicenzaOro September

Maybe even to spread a veil on this epilogue not commendable, IEG begins to turn on the lights on the next appointment. Here are the news: Roberto Coin will present the new versions of the Princess Flower collection, Damiani the extensions of the D.Side, Eden and the iconic Belle Epoque collections. In the Icon area there will be Fope, Crivelli, Leo Pizzo, Tamara Comolli, Djula. A confirmation is also that of Alessio Boschi in the Design Room, in which he will also find the Parisian designer-artist Lydia Courteille, the Vicentine Mattia Cielo (for him a return) and Monica Rich Kosann. Confirmation also for Giovanni Raspini, Rue de Milles, Victoria Cruz, Bronzallure, Crieri. Cosimo Muzzano





VicenzaOro January
VicenzaOro January 2017

L'area Design Room a VicenzaOro September
L’area Design Room a VicenzaOro September

Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi

Jessica Kahawaty e Roberto Coin
Jessica Kahawaty e Roberto Coin

Interno di Fiera Vicenza September. Foto di Carolina Nobile
Interno di Fiera Vicenza September. Foto di Carolina Nobile







VicenzaOro, the magnificent eight of the Design Room

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Who will be in the Design Room of VicenzaOro: Alessio Boschi makes his debut, comes Garavelli and … ♦ ︎

In the countdown in view of VicenzaOro September, organized by the Italian Exhibition Group and scheduled in Vicenza from 22 to 26 September 2018, the scope of one of the most awaited sections, The Design Room, is now outlined with greater precision. Introduced a couple of editions ago, the area is reserved for particularly significant signatures of jewelry design. In the September 2018 edition, the area sees some confirmation and several new features. First of all, the number of designers changes: from 12 in the first edition, to January 2017, to the 11th of last January, to 8 September 2018. Among the Design Room aficionados, for this edition there are Qayten, an innovative boutique which always arouses great interest, Alessa Jewelery, a brand born from the love between designers Yuvraj Pahuja and Alessandra Robles, and the Italian-Brazilian Bia Tambelli. An exceptional debut is that of the talented Alessio Boschi, an Italian designer with a world profile, which until now has only been present at Baselworld. Other novelties are represented by the Cedille brand, created by Carmen Aoun in 2015, from the exotic collections of Inspiration Jewels and the simplicity of Syna. And more, the historic Garavelli brand is moved-up to the Design Room. In reality it is a matter of a few meters, because the Piedmontese Maison was previously located in the Icon area of ​​VicenzaOro, inside which is the Design Room area. It is no coincidence that last year Garavelli won a prestigious Design Award at the Couture in Las Vegas.





Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi

Alessa Jewelry, anelli della Amara Collection
Alessa Jewelry, anelli della Amara Collection
Qayten, bracciale Nexus chiuso
Qayten, bracciale Nexus chiuso
Garavelli, bracciale in oro diamanti
Garavelli, bracciale in oro diamanti

Bia Tambelli, orecchini con acquamarine
Bia Tambelli, orecchini con acquamarine







Alessio Boschi poet of Venus





The waves of the sea, Venus, the pearls, the shell of a shell that holds a secret: here are the latest creations by Alessio Boschi ♦ ︎

The Thalassa collection by Alessio Boschi takes the Greek name of the sea. And like the waves of the ocean reserves surprises, mysteries, wonders. Given that it is inspired by the sea, but that of an ancient fantasy, even the high jewelery of this collection offers exciting discoveries. On the other hand, this is the specialty of Alessio Boschi, who has established himself internationally as an interpreter of a sort of humanist goldsmitherie, of a Renaissance jewelry, and more with the typical virtuosity of the Baroque sculptors. In short, it has a complex and elaborate style that can easily be compared to that of the rare gurus of the world jewelry.
In 2017 the Thalassa collection has monopolized the attention with the great shark with the body composed of a gigantic keshi pearl. The following year Alessio Boschi added, next to extraordinary rings inspired by the inhabitants of the waves and brooches in the shape of fish, also a ring, Venus Heart, which is a tribute to both the sea and Venus painted by Botticelli and kept in the Uffizi Florence. The sea and the Renaissance, this time, are combined. Also in this case the irregularly shaped pearls are used to build the shell of a shell that hides a surprise: it opens to make room for a thin chain with small fish that transforms the pendant ring. While the shank of the ring is an irregular pavé reminiscent of a coral reef, the pearls on the shell are surrounded by a pavé of blue sapphires and white diamonds: the waves of the sea and the foam of the waves that is refracted. Do you still think that Alessio Boschi is a simple jeweler? Macché is a poet.





Anello Venus Heart
Anello Venus Heart

La trasformazione in collana con pendente
La trasformazione in collana con pendente
Venus Heart 1
Il segreto di Venus Heart
Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi con Venus Heart
Alessio Boschi con Venus Heart
Alessio Boschi con Venus Heart a Baselworld
Alessio Boschi con Venus Heart a Baselworld
Alessio Boschi, spilla pesce con perla e zaffiri
Alessio Boschi, spilla pesce con perle e zaffiri

Anello con gambo a forma di pesce, spinello rosa e zaffiri
Anello con gambo a forma di pesce, spinello rosa e zaffiri







Alessio Boschi, the Renaissance at the Couture





A Gran Tour at Couture by Alessio Boschi: palaces and wonders of Renaissance Italy are transformed into surprising jewels ♦ ︎
Alessio Boschi, magician, genius, designer, artist: difficult to find a definition for an heir of the Renaissance who tries his hand at jewelery. And the reference to the historical period is not accidental, because Alessio Boschi has for years undertaken a sort of Grand Tour in Italy, including monuments and masterpieces that have made the Peninsula famous.
Some of these exceptional pieces Alessio Boschi brought them to the Couture of Las Vegas, a selective stage, capable of attracting jewelers of the most different traditions. Certainly, however, Alessio Boschi’s jewels stand out from the others. Let’s take two of them as an example.
The necklace inspired by the Doge’s Palace in Venice, where the Doges’ government resided in the ancient Republic, is made of 18-carat white and yellow gold, with brilliant-cut white diamonds, pear and marquise. There are also yellow diamonds, emeralds with the unusual marquise cut, pearls from the South Seas, 12 other natural Colombian emeralds in the shape of a bright green pear. All this to recreate the atmosphere of the Venetian Gothic style of the Palazzo Ducale, built between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, which was the residence of the Doge and seat of the Grand Council. The Doge was the supreme authority of the Republic of Venice and the palace contained the Doge’s apartments, as well as the large assembly hall where political, economic and military issues were discussed.

Collana di Alessio Boschi con elemento staccabile che diventa orecchino
Collana di Alessio Boschi con elemento staccabile che diventa orecchino

Typical of Alessio Boschi it’s also explain to you how the architectural and artistic details have influenced his work. The palace door, for example, was built in 1442 and features intricately carved Istrian marble, spiral columns and windows decorated with the typical four-lobed Venetian motif. The same design that is then found in the necklace. The extraordinary elegance of the composition is framed by a large window covered with a dark honey-gray color: these are the round lead glass produced on the nearby island of Murano for the medieval and Renaissance palaces of the most aristocratic residences in Europe. Several geometric patterns and a few statues adorn the edges of the carved marble door. This door together with the facade of the building were the main inspirations of the necklace and its three pairs of removable earrings adorned with white yellow diamonds and imaginative and exquisite Colombian emeralds arranged with architectural motifs and hanging from a beautiful pink wire of the South Sea Pearl. As you know who knows Alessio Boschi, his goldsmith virtuosity always hides a surprise: in this case, an element of the necklace can be detached to be used as an earring.
Another piece in this ride through the beauties of italian Renaissance is the set dedicated to Siena, a Tuscan city where from the seventeenth century the Pallium runs twice a year, that is an equestrian race with the jockeys that mount the horses bareback, without saddle , around the main square of the city. It is a historical show, with music, flags and Renaissance costumes, as well as a typhoon of the 17 contrade that challenge each other. The ten riders participating in the race must complete three laps in Piazza del Campo in less than 90 seconds. The square is surrounded by historical palaces of the Middle Ages, in red brick.In the upper part of the square there is an exquisite Renaissance fountain (Fonte Gaia) of 1419. And here is the fountain reproduced in the ring by Alessio Boschi, through a square emerald in the pink gold ring and champagne diamond pavé that re-elaborates the architecture of the Siena pizza with the same proportions. Other white diamonds with baguette cut draw the triangles in which the place is divided. Do you think this gem is quite imaginative? Yet there is also an other surprise here: the ring opens revealing a micro race of horses of the different districts, with the symbols that are applied around the ring. The historic palace that overlooks the square is instead symbolized by a cushion-cut yellow beryl.
But that is not all. Dominating the square is the Torre del Mangia, which is named after its nickname of its last greedy custodian (Mangia in Italian means “he eats”). The bell tower was built in the first half of the fourteenth century to exceed the height of the rival Florence and has a clock that is also reproduced on the side of the ring. But this jewel is also matched with earrings that resemble the same architectural motifs. The earrings are decorated with a tower-shaped clip on the back of two elongated bell towers. And here’s the surprise the lower part can open up to make room for a cascade of chains and horses.





Collana Palazzo Ducale, particolare
Collana Palazzo Ducale, particolare

Anello Palio, esterno
Anello Palio, esterno
Anello Palio, interno
Anello Palio, interno
Orecchino Palio
Orecchino Palio
Orecchino Palio, con cavalli
Orecchino Palio, con cavalli
Orecchino Palio, chiuso
Orecchino Palio, chiuso

Collana Palazzo Ducale, Alessio Boschi
Collana Palazzo Ducale, Alessio Boschi

Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi







Alessio Boschi, Animal & Fish





The Animal & Fish series by Alessio Boschi: brooches and earrings with pearls, gold and precious stones in a whirling baroque fantasy (and cheerful) ♦ ︎
Who does not know Alessio Boschi does not know the jewelry. Or, better, he has never seen what kind of jewelry can turn into the hands of a sculptor lent to the art of composing with gold, precious stones. And pearls. But not the round ones, too perfect pearls, to put on a necklace. The pearls that Alessio Boschi chooses are extravagant, inharmonious, asymmetrical keshi pearls. Which, precisely, for this, are transformed into volumes around which to compose. For example, Alessio Boschi has chosen a series of lumpy pearls that, like a spell, come to life in the body of animals, like fish or birds.
But, be careful, those who do not know Alessio Boschi do not even know the magic. Because the Italian designer is able to create jewels that surprise at first sight, and continue to surprise once you realize that the jewel hides another jewel in turn. Like for the White Shark brooch presented in 2017: a shark with embedded stones that hides, behind a small door on the lower side, a pair of dangling earrings. Then there is the surprise of the surprise, because the earrings are, in turn, decomposable (we talked about it more widely here https://is.gd/xXKndy).
Also the rest of the Animal & Fish series is not far different. But, compared to the “animalia” series by other designers, those of Alessio Boschi have a further advantage: they are cheerful, they put in a good mood.



Rabbit (perle, diamanti bianchi e brown)
Rabbit (perle, diamanti bianchi e brown)
Rabbit with carrot
Rabbit with carrot
Rabbit with carrot
Rabbit with carrot
Rooster cufflinks and Jabot  (pin)
Rooster cufflinks and Jabot (pin)
Seahorse
Seahorse
The Cat and the Mouse
The Cat and the Mouse
The Chick
The Chick
The Duck
The Duck
Spille della serie Fish
Spille della serie Fish
The Fish
The Fish
The Great Withe Shark
The Great Withe Shark
The Griffin
The Griffin
The Parrot with trunk
The Parrot with trunk
The Parrot
The Parrot
Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi







Baselworld: win or flop?





Baselworld 2018, number of visitors unchanged. Here’s who is happy and who is puzzled among jewelers ♦ ︎
It depends. The final judgment on Baselworld 2018 can be summarized as follows: it depends. Because the Basel Watch and Jewelery Fair (22-26 March 2018) had two faces. One is the one summarized by two numbers: 1300 and 650. The first is the number of exhibitors, already declining, in 2017 (there were 1500 in 2016). The second is the number of exhibitors in 2018, less than half. A massacre. «A selection», he prefers to call it the managing director of Mch, the company that organizes Baselworld. But, in fact, it depends on the points of view. Faced with such a drastic reduction could have been much worse. The final balance of Baselworld 2018, in the words of the organizers is, if not exciting, at least sufficient. The number of visitors, for example, “has remained stable”. Since the fair lasted two days less, this is considered a success. At the moment we do not know the number of buyers present. 4,400 journalists came to Baselworld, 15% less from Europe, but 5% more from Asia. And if many big brands, such as Festina or Dior, this year have defected the Basel fair, Breitling, Rolex, Patek Philippe, Swatch, Chanel and Gucci have already announced that they will also be present next year, from 21 to 26 March 2019 .
And exhibitors? The opinions are different. Again, it depends. Among the opinions collected by gioiellis.com among jewelers, prevails a lack of enthusiasm for the new formula “concentrated”, which for some is “sad” when compared to the atmosphere that was breathed until a couple of years ago. But at the same time, many have confirmed that commercial activity has not been lacking and, therefore, the presence in Basel still has a reason for being. From the comments collected during the fair, we can summarize the mood:
We are equally satisfied: Fope, Pasquale Bruni, Nanis, Alessio Boschi, Tamara Comolli, Picchiotti, Messika, Mattioli, Rivière
Everything is OK, but some perplexities: Casato, Annamaria Cammilli, Leo Pizzo, Yoko London, Giovanni Ferraris, Djoula, Facet, Crivelli
No comment: Coronet, Sutra, Butani




Baselworld 2018
Baselworld 2018

Tra gli stand di Baselworld
Tra i booth di Baselworld
Visitatori a Baselworld
Visitatori a Baselworld
Ingresso alla messe
Ingresso alla messe

Modella di Jacob & co
Modella di Jacob & co







Baselworld 2018, selection and news





Baselworld 2018 starts with the selection. But news jewelry are not lacking ♦ ︎
“The world is changing fast. Faced with this challenge, there are only two alternatives: to grow larger or to concentrate. We have chosen to concentrate”. The words of Sylvie Ritter, managing director of Baselworld, have opened the new edition, the number 101, of the great fair dedicated to luxury watches and jewelery. Indeed, more and more luxury, because if Baselworld 2017 counted 135,000 total visitors, down from 145,000 in 2016, in November the Mch group, which organizes the fair, announced that it would have halved the list of exhibitors and reduced the duration of the event, two day less, in response to the difficult phase recorded by the Swiss watchmaking players (the export of Swiss watches, however, after two years of crisis started to rise again at + 12.6% in the first few months of 2018). Baselworld also reduced the rental fee for the stands by 10%.
The result is that in Basel there are about 700 exhibitors, almost halved compared to 1,300 in 2017, when they had already fallen by 200 compared to 2016, but still the past year attracted 106 thousand buyers and 4,400 journalists (including those of gioiellis.com). And yet, if there are no more brands like Movado or Eberhard in watchmaking, there are always leading names like Rolex, Patek Philippe, the Swatch group with its many brands, some of which, like Omega. There is also the Lvmh group with Maison like Bulgari and Tag Heuer. And there are many top brands of jewelry, from fashion like Swarovski, or haute joaillerie with Graff, de Grisogono or Harry Winston, up to small Maison but with great creativity like Alessio Boschi, and the classic brands of Italian jewelry, Nanis, Giovanni Ferraris , Annamaria Cammilli, Picchiotti, Fope, Leo Pizzo, Casato, just to name a few. In short, Baselworld has lost weight, but still retains a lot of charm: the 101 years brings them well. We will tell the news in the next few days.



Sylvie Ritter
Sylvie Ritter inaugura Baselworld 2018
Booth Swarovski
Booth Swarovski
Ingresso principale allo spazio espositivo di Baselworld
Ingresso principale allo spazio espositivo di Baselworld
Collana Swarovski
Collana Swarovski
Al lavoro nei booth
Al lavoro nei booth

Interno di Baselworld
Interno di Baselworld







Special Alessio Boschi




Art, fantasy and virtuosity of Alessio Boschi: his extraordinary jewels explained by himself ♦ ︎
There are so many jewelers. There are few artists. But the jewelers-artists are even less. And even less. One of these goldsmith sculptors, a visionary who looks at the future through the past, a sophisticated stone conqueror and of the soul of the stones, is Alessio Boschi. Eclectic, but attached to the tradition, imaginative, but without falling into the extravagant, gorgeous, but within the limits of good taste: Alessio Boschi is a unicum that should be safeguarded as the picturesque Bagnoregio, a small village near Orvieto, where he lives when isn’t around the world looking for stones, pearls and inspirations.
Is it perhaps the millenary atmosphere that breathes in Civica di Bagnoregio (if you do not know the little town, you must go to visit it) to push Alessio Boschi on a journey through the sign that art history has scattered around Italy. The 2017 collection, for example, was inspired by the fountains of Rome, which is part of the Historica line.

Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi

Milan
The line with the apse windows of the Duomo of Milan is beautiful, like the very chic bracelet. There is the pavé version and the most accessible only engraved. The closure has tiny diamonds embedded and then molded in the shape of a double blade to keep the closure together. There is also a reduced version of bracelet with three pearl threads. Milan is a jewelery collection that testifies to the link between the French gothic bloom and the Lombardy capital: there is also a yellow and yellow diamonds and pearls.

Bracciale della linea Milano con perle Akoya bianche
Bracciale della linea Milano con perle Akoya bianche
Bracciale della linea Milano con perle Akoya gialle
Bracciale della linea Milano con perle Akoya gialle
Bracciale della linea Milano con perle Akoya gialle indossato
Bracciale della linea Milano con perle Akoya gialle indossato

Florence
The Florence line instead flies to a higher level. It is made of pink and gilded gold: it resembles the Gothic style and the double windows of the church of Santa Maria del Fiore and the bell tower of Giotto and Florence. The Florence bracelet is made of pink gold, with springs and grooves mounted to form non-metal bifurcated sides, but held by a pair of double-decker bras which follow the shape of the hooked stone at the ends of trilobate motifs. In practice, those wearing the bracelet do not see anything about the metal on which they are mounted. The order of the two bifors is marked by gold-plated punctured columns with grooves with small tiny diamonds: it is seen only by the near, but the effect is extremely bright and precious. Note the tiny golden capitals, micro-pavé and gold-plated diamond lilies. Flower earrings are separable in several pieces, with decorations on the back of diamond pattern in brown diamonds. The Flower Necklace is also separable: the columns are separated.

Firenze, collana Del Fiore
Firenze, collana Del Fiore
Bracciale della linea Firenze
Bracciale della linea Firenze

Venice
Gondola ring, one of a kind ring, represents the lagoon of Venice. It is made of a blue Australian black opal with black nuances. It is a very difficult stone to cut without breaking it, like the lagoon, exactly. The ring also uses emeralds and sapphires on the sides, Paraiba tourmalines and blue and yellow Akoia blue pearls. Within the ring gallery, which depicts the Rialto bridge, there is a gondolier. There are also two versions of earrings combined with the Gondola ring. The first one has a fossilized wooden gondola that looks like onyx, with different clips and butterflys with Venetian motif. The second version has an imperial topaz and the gondolier seems to climb. The galleries of the two rings are completely different: one has Rialto, with the gondolier on the reflection of the waves. In the other, the gondolier is in the foreground with the sunset in yellow diamonds cut as window. Always in Venice, one of the most famous places is the Bridge of Sighs, which inspired a ring. The Bridge of Sighs, for those who did not know it, led to inhospitable Venetian prisons, and the sighs were those who saw the sunshine for the last time. Boschi fully engraved diamonds, cut specially to follow the shape of the bridge. Each single pass is a diamond, and in the middle of nine mystery setting stones there is a natural spinel, purple as the color of Venetian aristocracy. In the gallery there is the Door of the Card, one of the monumental entrances of Palazzo Ducale, which leads to the Grand Council, with the engraving of the Lion of San Marco with Doge Foscari, rosettes with diamonds and masks. Inside the ring is the classic surprise of Alessio Boschi: a Venetian lady with her husband in jail by Alabarda’s armed guards.

Anello Gondola
Anello Gondola
Orecchini Gondola
Orecchini Gondola
Anello Ponte di Rialto indossato
Anello Ponte di Rialto indossato
Anello Ponte di Rialto
Anello Ponte di Rialto
Anello Ponte dei Sospiri
Anello Ponte dei Sospiri
Il Ponte dei Sospiri
Il Ponte dei Sospiri
Pendente Paper Gate Venice
Pendente Paper Gate Venice

Verona
The Romeo and Juliet ring originates from the purchase of a large sapphire with a window, that is, the light goes through the stone. The sapphire was already emerald cut, and in natural yellow, so not heated. “I wanted to create a jewel with a stone so pure and transparent that you could put something visible to the naked eye below,” Boschi’s says. “The sapphire found in Bangkok was the occasion to celebrate the impossible love between Romeo and Juliet, the drama written by Shakespeare. Inside the jewel there is, in fact, a hand-engraved magazine, representing the tomb of young lovers. It houses a small mosaic-shaped pendant, a Roman fabric of the Vatican school, a style other than that of Ravenna of Sicis or the Byzantine style of Istanbul. It is a miniature that evokes the dramatic scene of Juliet while poisoning. That’s why the top of the ring has a rectangular shape: the sapphire window is functional to the design. When the ring opens, thanks to a mechanical movement similar to that of the Fabergé egg, a pendant is raised with engraved Capuleti and Montecchi coats of arms. The pendant also turns into a bracelet, adorned by a small heart pierced by an arrow to remind you that love is stronger than anything else. At the sides of the ring are the engravings that reproduce the famous balcony of the two lovers, adorned with 0.5mm diamonds. A second secret compartment houses a miniature Romeo statue on his knees, with a rose in his hand. On the other hand, Juliet’s tomb, whose hair is not engraved in one piece of gold (anyone can do it). Instead, the hair is made one by one, woven together with gold: the yet another challenge of the Boschi to the impossible. Impossible to imitate, for sure. The ring is the result of two months of processing only for micromosaic. There is also the earring with the inscription “amor vincit omnia”, love wins everything. Like fantasy.

Verona, anello Romeo e Giulietta
Verona, anello Romeo e Giulietta
Verona, gli orecchini
Verona, gli orecchini

Pisa
The ring inspired by the famous leaning tower reproduces the upper part, the one with the skylight. It’s a one-of-a-kind, with purple and pink cut-off princess sapphires, framed by microdiamans, with bows orders that look slightly Byzantine. No matter how you can turn the tower, it will never be straight on your finger but, of course, will always hang on one side. The jewel is made with the technique of mistery setting on one side while on the other there is a side rosette made of purple sapphire buff top (above cabochon, faceted below) surrounded by a micro pavé. Also this ring has a surprise: it opens and inside are the symbols of the ancient Marinara Republic (Pisa was a small state during the Middle Ages) engraved and a small tower as pendant.

Anello Torre di Pisa, con i secrets
Anello Torre di Pisa, con i secrets

Rome
The Colosseum becomes a double jewel, but with the appearance it originally had in the imperial era. The jewel is in white gold, with three orders of columns and as many capitals in Ionian, Doric and Corinthian style. Below you can see the sandblasted relief with the legionaries, their elves and spears, the eagle and the imperial insignia of ancient Rome. In the first gallery of the Coliseum there are princess diamonds, cut by hand. Not only: they are cut to fit the frame curvature. Here is the art of Boschi: Choosing a brilliant cut with light-reflecting faces, square-shaped as in this case, entails considerable material expense. It would have been cheaper to cut a step, even a rectangular shape, so baguette. But it would have given a less beautiful, colder light. Instead, the entrances are cut into baguette steps, specially designed to have different light. In the first ring with the Coliseum there are the smallest black diamonds in the world: 0.7-0.8 carats. Under this dimension, black diamonds can not be cut. For this reason the second and third rings are black enamel. The most difficult thing was to find the way to climb the white part: it’s hard to find 0.6 carats in India (after the crisis, says Boschi, this size does not cut it anymore). Instead, the last step near the arena is 0.5 carats, as well as the stones that engage the stones are microscopic. The bigger up ring has black princess cut diamonds mounted to the contrary, to give the idea of ​​studs. They represent the windows of the Coliseum and each ring-sector is divided by row of black baguette diamonds. So the overall light that is very beautiful is given by the incisions of various cuts of stones.
There is also a second version of the Colosseum: the one that represents it as it is to our day. It is in pink gold, with the same work of recess, but this time with emeralds: a stone hard to work, which is easily cracked. At the center there is the hoax and the horses used in the games of ancient Rome. There is, finally, the blossomed sandbox, and when the ring turns from the hypogeum, the tiger and the lion come out of the chains mounted on the tracks.

Anello Colosseo, seconda versione in oro rosa
Anello Colosseo, seconda versione in oro rosa
Anello Colosseo, prima versione
Anello Colosseo, prima versione
Anello Colosseo
Anello Colosseo
Colosseo, ciondolo interno
Colosseo, ciondolo interno

Nature, animals
Next to the Historica collection, Boschi cultivates other continuous lines such as Naturalia, inspired by plants, flowers and animals, and Thalassa, which celebrates the creatures of the sea. An example to be framed is The Great White Shark, a brooch of the Thalassa line, a unique piece and the most important of the 2017 production: a large (but light) brooch from the shape of a fish. The muzzle, fins and tail are in keshi pearls, while the body recalls the shades of fish that in nature can be of two colors, with the back of a blue tending to gray and the bottom in pale blue. In jewel this effect is made by a combination of light indigo and aquamarine Santa Maria: two varieties similar to the nuances of the ocean.
The stones are mounted in jours (a day), ie without a metal base to receive light from below. And in the true Boschi style, even the shape of the frame is unusual: every single plot resumes the shape of the scales of fish, an artistic virtuosity that does not affect the yield.

Alessio Boschi con gli orecchini Great White Shark
Alessio Boschi con la spilla Great White Shark

The fish surprise
The recess is perfectly smooth to the touch, because the stones are cut again on the edge to eliminate any difference in height. To make the brooch portable, the whole frame or frame is in palladium, the new luxury of jewelery. The metal is forged with a difficult melt, because palladium is a metal that requires high temperatures, rather than platinum. To work on the palladium it takes a particular machine and can only be used in alloy with another metal. A Thai company is the only one in Asia to allow this processing.
The result is a 40% lighter brooch than conventional frames. Boschi Jewelry, as always, hide unexpected details. In this case, the fish’s stomach opens up and reveals a pink gold compartment, where the coral reef creatures are engraved by hand: octopus, clown fish, violin fish. Not only that: with a spring the broom door opens and closes to hold a pair of earrings. The shape of the jewel is round and the brooch is not only worn for one direction but in three dimensions. Pearl and diamond earrings represent the dorsal fin emerging from the sea and are inspired by the famous waves of Japanese artist Hokusai: they have a long removable gold pendant chain with small pearls, and the closure clip is shark-shaped.

Spilla Great White Shark
Spilla Great White Shark
Alessio Boschi con gli orecchini Great White Shark
Alessio Boschi con gli orecchini Great White Shark
Orecchini Great Shark
Orecchini Great Shark

Alessio’s flowers
Boschi usually replicates each model to ten pieces. For the Chinese market he designed a series of Peony rings in the Naturalia line. The novelty is the theme of the lotus, flower from which is extracted a precious essential oil, more expensive than gold. The ring is made with sapphires, pink rose and pseudomy pink pearls, with a deliberately selected tourmaline with inclusions, because it makes the idea of ​​the drops of essence sprung from its pistil: a courageous choice because it emphasizes how the designer privileges creativity , rather than adapt to the rules of the market. “In my opinion inclusions are not necessarily imperfections,” says Boschi at gioiellis.com. “In some cases give vitality and light to the stone and give it uniqueness, for example the Paraiba tourmaline.” Then there are the wisteria collection (wisteria collection) pieces, other Chinese high-purple jade flower and tsavoriti mixed with yellow diamonds for the leaves and the trellis.

Anello Wisteria indossato
Anello Wisteria indossato
Anelli Peony
Anelli Peony

A touch of India
The Palace Flowered is a ring representing the acanthus leaf revisited in the style of Rajastan, with India’s colors on a double-arch frame, like the moghul palaces, with purple sapphires, pink pear-shaped cut, tsavoriti in different shades and drops of emeralds.

Anello The Palace Flowered
Anello The Palace Flowered







Awarded the Alessio Boschi’s Renaissance

Alessio Boschi between the winners of International Design Excellence Award 2017 with a tribute to the Renaissance.
A tribute to the Renaissance in Florence: Alessio Boschi, the great Italian artist jewelry, won the first prize at the International Aesthetic Design Excellence Award 2017 in Hong Kong. The prize (deserved) was awarded for Homage To The Renaissance, and opulent necklace pendant earrings that have as an altarpiece (in the figurative art is a painting on wood or marble, with religious subjects, within an architectural frame). Of course in this case is not a painting to be achieved, but a precious mosaic (we still will talk about it). A prestigious award, if you think that attended 165 designers from 27 countries.
The International Jewellery Design Excellence Award is a biennial event. It was held at the Hong Kong International Jewellery Show (HKTDC). Besides the Italian designer Boschi, the awards went to the Japanese Natsumi Odate, who won the highest honor, Champion of Champions, with his Rhythm necklace, made with 3D technology. The necklace simulates a shape of wild vine leaves. The Russian designers Natalia Tarasova and Tatiana Tarasova and won, instead, the Uniqueness in Design Award with their ring For Form. The design was inspired by the geometry of the vortex. At another Russian designers, Viktor Moiseikin, was awarded the Craftsmanship Award for set of ring and earrings Firebird Feather, which uses the technology Waltzing Brilliance, offering kaleidoscopic effects.

La collanai dedicati al Rinascimento di Alessio Boschi
La collanai dedicati al Rinascimento di Alessio Boschi
Orecchini dedicati al Rinascimento di Alessio Boschi
Orecchini dedicati al Rinascimento di Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi con l’Aesthetic first prize disegnato da Wallace Chan
Alessio Boschi con l’Aesthetic first prize disegnato da Wallace Chan
Anello in argento, carta colorata, e ambra di Natalia Tarasova e Tatiana Tarasova
Anello in argento, carta colorata, e ambra di Natalia Tarasova e Tatiana Tarasova
Finalista: earcuff  Symphony di Kalpana Asar. Oro giallo 18k con diamanti e rubini
Finalista: earcuff Symphony di Kalpana Asar. Oro giallo 18k con diamanti e rubini
La collana Rythm in platino con diamanti, tanzanite, peridoto, e iolite di Natsumi Odate
La collana Rythm in platino con diamanti, tanzanite, peridoto, e iolite di Natsumi Odate
Tra i finalisti, la collana Warm e orecchini di  Xiaolei Feng. Oro, perle, e madreperla
Tra i finalisti, la collana Warm e orecchini di Xiaolei Feng. Oro, perle, e madreperla
Tra i finalisti, la collana Firebird e anello di  Alina Andreeva. Oro bianco 18k con zaffiri e diamanti
Tra i finalisti, la collana Firebird e anello di Alina Andreeva. Oro bianco 18k con zaffiri e diamanti

The Ocean by Alessio Boschi

The latest fantastic, clever, ingenious inventions by Alessio Boschi, jewelry that seems born on the waves of the ocean.
How to define Alessio Boschi? A genius? An heir of the Italian Renaissance? An eclectic artist? Maybe all of these things together. Alessio Boschi is a designer who has mastered the oriental art of gentle processing to complicated sets, brings the humanism of the Italian artistic history, has the sensitivity to the choice and composition of its unique pieces. Alessio Boschi is now a star in the firmament of the jewelry and will be even more. As demonstrated by some of his latest creations inspired by the sea, or rather the Ocean (Boschi lives between Thailand and Italy).
The Coral Reef brooch is also a pendant with an invisible fastening system: can be worn as a center piece in a strand of South Sea pearls. The jewel is a tribute to the coral reefs of tropical seas and seems a spray of water crashing into the shore. But, watch it well: there are also coral, sea fans and an octopus which is clinging around an Australian opal, reminiscent of the deep blue sea. What other designers could conceive and then build something like this? Always dedicated to deep sea is the ​​Orange Anemone ring, with its tentacles encrusted diamonds that frame a beautiful Ethiopian opal cabochon, surrounded by orange sapphires and garnets of Mali. This inhabitant of the seas seems attached to a submarine rock full of micro-algae, made with champagne diamonds, orange and yellow sapphires. Inside the ring, the inner work reveals a micro reef, hand carved in white gold and details of different sea creatures.
It is no less fascinating is the Ocean Foam necklace, inspired by the waves crashing against the shore. A blue and green Paraiba tourmaline remembers the nuances of tropical waters, while the white jadeite, and diamonds represent the foam that develops after the impact of waves on the reef. The movement of the waves, decorated with precious stones pendants to suggest the water drops, framing a beautiful imperial jade green. As explained by Alessio Boschi, a game between the most exquisite and traditional Chinese gem and a less conventional style in a creative challenge that never ends: East meets West. But only Boschi manages to get to this. Giulia Netrese

Ocean Foam ring by Alessio Boschi
Ocean Foam ring by Alessio Boschi

Coral Reef, spilla-ciondolo by Alessio Boschi
Coral Reef, spilla-ciondolo by Alessio Boschi
Collana Ocean Foam, by Alessio Boschi
Collana Ocean Foam, by Alessio Boschi
Anello Orange Sea Anemone, by Alessio Boschi
Anello Orange Sea Anemone, by Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi

The water features by Alessio Boschi

There is all spirit of the Roman Baroque in Alessio Boschi necklace, dedicated to Piazza Navona. We saw it in Basel among Paraiba tourmalines, emeralds and white diamonds that evoke water features, palladium and gold rose that shape mythological figures. The jewel is an architectural and iconographic map, from small details, such as the rectangular plaque hanging from clasp which is like the square commissioned by Pope Innocent X, the area formerly occupied by the Emperor Domitian stadium.

The three blue baguette symbolize the three fountains, but also the three lilies of the Pamphili’s arms, the Pope’s family. On the right, after a succession of concave emeralds Zambia, Mozambique Paraiba tourmalines, white diamonds, here are the Tritons of the Moro’s Fountain, the one who is taming a dolphin and those with shell horns from which flows water. All figures are in palladium 950, and rose gold plated to bring out the plasticity of modeling, such as the mermaid and the god Neptune, the namesake fountain, represented on the left side. But it is in everything that revolves around the imposing Paraiba tourmaline 80.5 carat and cut into pillow, where the spirit of Woods coincides perfectly with the definition of the Baroque given by the historian Bruno Zevi: a free spirit and a creative attitude. Plus the overwhelming imagination of an artist jeweler like Boschi.

In fact, the composition revolves around the characteristics of transparency, the stone and the choice to build a narration even on the back of the gem: held by four figures who personify the four rivers of the homonymous fountain in the center of the square. Between the Nile, Ganges, Danube and Rio de la Plata, the frame is engraved on the green background water of tourmaline with the shape of the obelisk, that in reality dominates the sculptural complex surrounded by lilies and a palm, elements of the Pamphili arms. In the same collection, inspired by the fountains, there is a ring with an extraordinary beryl  as color and sheen and the Paraiba tourmalines degrade to represent the water foam. Two sculptural compositions, to see the wow effect look at them on Valeria Boschi. Monica Battistoni

Alessio Boschi, omaggio a Piazza Navona. Collana in palladio, oro rosa Alladium, oro rosa 18 carati, diamanti bianchi, perle naturali, 131 smeraldi, 282 tormaline Paraiba, tormalina centrale da 80, 2 carati
Alessio Boschi, omaggio a Piazza Navona. Collana in palladio, oro rosa Alladium, oro rosa 18 carati, diamanti bianchi, perle naturali, 131 smeraldi, 282 tormaline Paraiba, tormalina centrale da 80, 2 carati
La collana indossata da Valeria Boschi
La collana indossata da Valeria Boschi
Vista da vicino
Vista da vicino
Il retro della collana, con l'obelisco e i gigli
Il retro della collana, con l’obelisco e i gigli
L'anello dedicato alla fontana del Moro con i Tritoni. In palladio e oro rosa, con diamanti bianchi, tormaline Paraiba e un berillo di 55 carati centrale
L’anello dedicato alla fontana del Moro con i Tritoni. In palladio e oro rosa, con diamanti bianchi, tormaline Paraiba e un berillo di 55 carati centrale
L'anello indossato
L’anello indossato

The bright masterpiece by Alessio Boschi

Amazing and magnificent: we were lucky enough to take a close look at Alessio Boschi‘s creations. They are so full of unusual details as to arouse to the wow effect invariably. It’s because  there is a long preparation of the draft behind, it’s because for his skill to take traditional techniques loan or new technologies and apply them, like a true virtuoso of goldsmith, in the processing of jewelry, or it’s because the artistic streak expresses itself in a very personal design. No coincidence Alessio Boschi has been listed as the most creative of Baselworld 2016. See, for example, this necklace inspired by the Cedar of Naturalia collection, where every element, from bark to leaves, to cones with closed and open bars, alone could represent a world unto itself. The thin needles, namely the leaves which in nature are individual or grouped in various arrangements on the same branch, are raw emerald crystals, slightly polished to preserved the color hue, and cut at the end to give a tip shape.

A simple task? The exact opposite. In fact, the stones come from Afghanistan mines, and therefore are very difficult to find especially in large quantities with the same characteristics, in this case are 280 gems of 100 carats. There is, then, the working: these thin crystals are fitted with a glue, a vitrified resin under the Uv lights heat, on tiny silver cylinders plated with a green film of the same color of emeralds, made especially for this necklace, and set over a spring to allow the gem to swing with your body movements. A similar en trembling set is for yellow and brown diamonds, with a hole in the bottom and strewn here and there among the green to represent the new small pine cones just blossomed. That original and precious handiwork in itself projected the necklace in fine jewelery, but Boschi’s imagination and skill are limitless.

Alessio Boschi, collezione Naturalia: Cedar necklace con diamanti bianchi, marroni e gialli, smeraldi naturali del Panjshir per 100 carati e due spessartiti di 72.65 carati complessivi.
Alessio Boschi, collezione Naturalia: Cedar necklace con diamanti bianchi, marroni e gialli, smeraldi naturali del Panjshir per 100 carati e due spessartiti di 72.65 carati complessivi.

So, even the trunk, namely the structure of the necklace, is not any piece of gold. Realized according to the production technique of Japanese samurai swords, Makumé Gane, it cost six months of work to get the most similar to the veins real model. 19 well plates in yellow gold, white, 18-carat pink, silver and palladium, whose wet by acid molecules are inserted between various metal layers and form microcompressi tunnels to draw streaks with different shades, while micro yellow diamonds, brown and white give a sense of relief bark. And yet other small yellow and brown diamonds, set upside en tremblant pinecone with woody bars opened like the petals of a flower, that reproduce the real world shades with a sheen similar to that one given to diamonds with a rose cut.

Finally, two pine cones that immediately catches the attention not only for their size. These are two rare spessartites, the mandarin garne in the most beautiful variety, one named Fanta orange, chosen for its hue that enhances the green emerald without being predominant. The scales are hand engraved to highlight the three-dimensionality of conifer and maintain the transparency of stones of over 70 carats overall, which have a Led inside, installed with the advice of the Bangkok’s University of Technology. But these are blinking lights because the necklace, the result of 14 months of work, throbs like the nature which represents. Just look at it worn by Valeria Boschi, Alessio’s sister, to perceive it. Monica Battistoni

Valeria Boschi indossa Cedar necklace
Valeria Boschi indossa Cedar necklace
Cedar necklace, particolare
Cedar necklace, particolare
Alessio Boschi
Alessio Boschi

Alessio Boschi, triumph in Hong Kong

Alessio Boschi king of the Asian autumn Auctions. The designer (https://gioiellis.com/il-virtuosismo-di-alessio-boschi), was the star of the auction Jewellery and Jadeite Autumn Auction 2015 by Tiancheng, auction company based in Hong Kong. A pair of earrings that are convertible as pendants or ring, icy lavender and green jadeite, diamond, signed by Italian designer who is based in Bangkok, were sold for 3.33 million US dollars, the maximum price for whole sale. Note that auction were sold 87% of jewelery, for a total of 31.4 million dollars. And more: a ring whit Sri Lanka spinel cobalt that changing color and diamonds has attracted more than 20 offers and sold for $ 230000. Spinel appears blue in daylight, but turns purple with artificial light. He had been mistaken for a sapphire blue, and was kept in a private vault for more than 50 years, until it was seen by the specialists of Tiancheng and properly identified and evaluated. Federico Graglia

Anello con diamanti e rubini a forma di libellula
Anello con diamanti e rubini a forma di libellula

Lo spinello cobato (fotomontaggio): cambia colore se esposto alla luce artificiale
Lo spinello cobato (fotomontaggio): cambia colore se esposto alla luce artificiale
Versione pendente dei due gioielli
Versione pendente dei due gioielli
Anelli di giadeite icy lavanda e verde
Anelli di giadeite icy lavanda e verde
Orecchini trasformabili in pendente o anelli di Alessio Boschi. Venduti per 3,3 milioni di dollari
Orecchini trasformabili in pendente o anelli di Alessio Boschi. Venduti per 3,3 milioni di dollari
Un altro pendente di Alessio Boschi: Tulip
Un altro pendente di Alessio Boschi con giadeite: Tulip
Pendenti di giadeite verde e lavanda firmati Alessio Boschi
Pendenti di giadeite verde e lavanda firmati Alessio Boschi
Anello con zaffiro e diamanti
Anello con zaffiro e diamanti