At Palladio Awards, win prizes the creatives Nikos Koulis, Faraone Mennella and Antonini.
Call them the Oscar of jewelry. Definition easy to understand, but inappropriate. If only because Italy has a tradition in the jewelry that has nothing to envy to that of other countries. In addition, between Palladio and the prizes reserved to the big of cinema there is a big distance, even as history and culture. That said, here are the winners of 2017 (the fifth) of Palladio awards, assigned in Vicenza to the jewelry world. Which then, as commented in the stands VicenzaOro a designer who prefers to remain anonymous, is fair to put together in competition giants as Cartier and Boucheron, which have large capital to invest with small Italian companies, it is another matter.
The winners of this fifth edition, divided by category, are :
The best italian jewelery designer: Faraone Mennella.
The best international jewelery designers: Nikos Koulis.
The best italian jewelery brand collection: Antonini Milan to Syracuse collection.
The best international jewelery brand collection: Boucheron for Animaux de collection collection.
The best jewelery flagship store: Nirav Modi for the New York store.
The best jewelery communication campaign: the campaign for Cartier Diamonds.
Jewellery corporate social responsibility award: chopard for the commitment to the project with eco-age.
The best jewelery communication: new media at Nervous System
The lifetime achievement award: Franco Cologni, president Cologni Foundation for arts and crafts.
In the night that has proclamed the winners, and simultaneously kicked off in VicenzaOro January, there were the president of the Italian Exhibition Group, Lorenzo Cagnoni, the vice president Matteo Marzotto, and the general manager, Corrado Facco. The jury was composed by Franco Cologni, President of Jury and Chairman Cologni Foundation for arts and crafts (curiously the same that received the lifetime achievement award), Clare Phillips, curator of the Sculpture Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Alba Cappellieri, a professor of Jewellery Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Silvana Annichiarico, director of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.
