The bespoke jewelery by Milanese designer Fabio Lissi, with ancient (and surprising) techniques ♦ ︎
The words art and craft have the same origin and, very often, an invisible difference. A unique piece, created following its own extravagance, is art or craftsmanship? Seeking a response is useless in the case of Fabio Lissi, jewelery designer who puts creativity, manual skill, workmanship into the workmanship. Not only that: he also uses amazing techniques. For example, in addition to the classic and traditional wax-blown melting system, Lissi found a method already used by ancient Egyptians, which plans to turn sepia bones into metal mold. The inside and limestone shell of the cuttlefish is a rigid but soft material that Lissi models in to the desired shape. In this way he turns into mold: in this way he has created several jewels that are exhibited in his atelier opened in 2014 at via Mascheroni, Milan.
One of the artist’s jewelers specialties is the creation of unique pieces that combine with the spirit and the demands of a buyer. Gold, but also silver or bronze, are forged around precious or precious stones, even generous. The client, he says, has been involved since the sketch and drawing phase, during which, through personal tales, photographs and anecdotes related to the person who will receive the jewel, inspiration arises. “It is not important the preciousness of the materials with which the customer decides to make it. It is important what the jewel represents, that is, the message it brings with it, “summarizes Lissi. His jewels seem to give him reason.
