For once the news is not a new collection, but the place that houses them. In particular, the new Repossi flagship store in Paris, in the classic town square for jewelers, Place Vendome. We signaled the boutique for a reason: it is a kind of spaceship that is very different from to the traditional jewelers with velvets and soft leather armchairs. The Repossi store was designed by the Dutch firm of Oma architecture. There are mirrors, metal, aluminum foam, resin, reflective strips, Led lights. “Architecture and jewelry are not so far apart as you might imagine: they are distant relatives, which operate at different resolutions,” they explained the authors of the project. The environment is on three floors. Jewels are kept in glass cases that seem to mini glass skyscrapers. “I discovered the desire to make a clean sweep (in Latin means eliminating all), rethink the existing on a sphere with a much broader intellectual and educational approach that appealed to me,” said Gaia Repossi to Wallpaper. Repossi is a company founded in Turin in 1920, but now active in France: one year is in part owned by the giant LVMH, which has bought an minority stake. The opening of the store, probably, is the first result of the operation. Federico Graglia
