Antonini Milano goes to Amalfi (Italy). But it’s not for tourism. Amalfi is the name of the new collection of the Milanese Maison, which deviates from the usual aesthetic paths dictated by designer Sergio Antonini. For those who don’t know it, Amalfi is a small town overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, which in the early Middle Ages was also a maritime republic, like Genoa, Pisa and Venice. It also gave its name to the Amalfi Tables, a maritime code used throughout the Mediterranean area from the 12th to the 16th century. Since 1997 the Amalfi Coast has been recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
In short, it is a place loved by tourists and full of history and charm. Certainly a name that evokes holidays, the sea, the pleasure of cooking. All these sensations have been translated into a series of jewels dedicated to a young audience, with light, thin necklaces and rings characterized by small pavés of white, champagne or black diamonds. In some models the pavé is limited to a pendant, in others the small diamonds are set inside the metal, with a style that characterizes Antonini production. Gold is polished or satin, white or pink.
Antonini’s novelties at Couture
Antonini presents spring novelties or, more precisely, for the Couture Show in Las Vegas. The Maison has decided to bring new pieces from its collections to the event in the capital of Nevada. These are jewels designed by the creative director Sergio Antonini which follow in the footsteps of two traditional collections of the Milanese Maison. The first concerns the Anniversary 100 line, which is enriched with a pair of sinuous gold earrings that recall the sign of infinity in view of a more than centenary milestone. The same interpretation for the pendant necklace that adds a pavé of diamonds.
Among the new rings, however, they are limited editions and take up another Antonini classic: the concave surface colored with a precious stone pavé. In the specific case they are emeralds, rubies and blue sapphires. Finally, always among the one-of-a-kind pieces, there is the necklace from the Extraordinaire series with a delicious 5.2-carat emerald, mounted as a pendant on a braided burnished gold chain. Final touch: the emerald is attached via a ring set with pavé diamonds.
Antonini in New York announces the green turn
From Milan to New York, passing through Piazza Italia. A journey that Antonini, the historic Milanese brand, undertakes to broaden the horizon of the market. For this reason, the company has signed an agreement with Piazza Italia, a company based in the American city which aims to create networks for the distribution of Italian products in the States. Indeed, the American market is already a market of primary importance for the jewels designed by Sergio Antonini, creative director of the Maison. Piazza Italia is proposed as a platform for companies. For example with events, such as the one scheduled from 14 to 16 March, in which the jewelery brand will also participate.
I strongly believe in this project, which will allow Antonini to have an office and a permanent showcase in New York in the beautiful spaces of Piazza Italia on Madison Avenue and a privileged channel of dialogue with interlocutors who are looking for the best made in Italy.
Diego Nardin, CEO of Antonini Milano
Furthermore, Antonini has decided to take the ethically correct path with the choice of a supplier of diamonds that do not come from war zones and to use packaging with certified recyclable material and coated with natural varnish for its jewels to water.
Journey from South to North or, more precisely, to the center of Italy. After the collections dedicated to Syracuse and Matera, the Milanese brand Antonini goes up the peninsula to stop in Tuscany: the new collection, in fact, is inspired by Lucca. Small city, but with a great artistic heritage, Lucca is located close to the Apennine mountains. And it is precisely the contrast between plowed fields, woods and sky that alludes to the choice of semi-precious stones used: blue topaz, green amethyst and smoky quartz. The stones are set in a white or rose gold setting, polished or satin inversion. In addition, small diamonds are lined up on the metal circle.
The Lucca collection also adds a further elaboration in the Moi et Toi line, with rings that use opposing stones, two or three (moi, toi and the other?). The same idea is chosen for the earrings, also in this case in versions with two or three stones. In the Toi & Moi line, it should be noted that other stones have also been added, such as citrine and amethyst.
Two rings waiting to return to Las Vegas and Vicenzaoro: Antonini anticipates the debut of two new sculpture-rings in July. The two jewels of the Milanese Maison are a limited edition and are inspired by two natural elements: Aria and Vento (Air and Wind), which are also the name chosen for the pair of rings. The design, the strong point of the ultra-centennial Maison (it was born in 1919), seems inspired directly by the rocks and sand that take on sinuous curves in particularly windy locations. Aria, in particular, wants to remember the mark left by the waves on the beach, but also the expanses of tall grass that move pushed by the air currents.
The Vento ring, on the other hand, is more massive, but with an elongated shape that makes it tapered. It recalls those rocks found near deserts, but also in neighboring Sardinia, where the incessant flow of air digs tunnels and crevices in the hard stone. The two rings are in yellow gold. Vento also features black grooves made with a black rhodium bath.
Antonini in yellow and gray
The choice reflects a bit the atmosphere of 2021: a gray present (for some even black) with the hope of a bright yellow future. Pantone, in short, seems to have guessed the colors for 2021. They are, among other things, shades that are simple enough to replicate for those who work in the world of jewelry. Antonini, for example, in view of Valentine’s Day offers pieces from the Anniversary100 collection that are in tune with the shades identified by Pantone (by the way, if you want to know how the colors are chosen, read here).
Rings, pendants and earrings from the Anniversary100 collection, in fact, are made of yellow gold or white gold, with details in gray rhodium. The collection, presented a couple of years ago to celebrate the almost century-old birthday of the Maison, is very extensive and includes many variations. Chains, rings and earrings are offered in simple yellow or white gold, or with pavé and diamonds set at 45 degrees in color F.
The preview of a piece of high jewelery that Antonini will present at Voice (12-14 September), the event that replaces Vicenzaoro with a format adapted to the circumstances. It is likely that the Vicenza mini-fair-summit, in reality, is not prodigal about new collections, given that in the spring the jewelry companies remained stopped due to the lockdown dictated by the covid. In the meantime, however, here is one of the new features that will be presented.
It is a high jewelery ring, which is part of the Extraordinaire line, the top of the range of the Maison of Milan Antonini. The jewel is a unique piece, a ring in which a 7.8-carat blue sapphire shines in the center, mounted on black rhodium and surrounded by small diamonds. The ring joins the other pieces of the Extraordinaire line presented in January, however centered on the use of emeralds. Other unique pieces made with blue sapphires, however, have been presented in past years.
In 1919 Antonini celebrated the century of its history with the Anniversary100 collection. It has been successful, not only for the symbolic aspect of this vast jewelry collection, but also because the design, with shades appropriately designed for the different markets, European, Eastern or American, has been appreciated beyond the history it symbolizes.
After the 100th anniversary, Antonini thought that the celebrations can continue with a sort of extension or, better, a capsule collection that continues the much appreciated theme. Here, then, new jewels in yellow gold or white gold, with subtle waves of diamonds that underline the soft lines of earrings, rings, necklaces and bracelets.
They are completely new jewels compared to those of last year. A version in black rhodium is also added, which underlines the soft sign of infinity. Perhaps also to indicate that the history of this collection can still have a very long life, perhaps for another 100 years.
New unique pieces for Antonini, a Milanese brand that stands out for its rigorous and innovative jewelry design. In short, Antonini’s jewels are included in two lines: those of collections of large proportions and the one-of-a-kind gathered under the name of Extraordinaire. It is this a line of haute couture that every year is enriched with new jewels out of the ordinary. While not giving up the classic lines, with a clean design, these jewels focus on the uniqueness of the stones used.
They are jewels personally designed by the creative mind of the brand, Sergio Antonini, starting from extraordinary precious stones chosen by expert gemologists. For 2020, for example, the Extraordinaire line includes a shiny yellow gold necklace, choker, with a simple square-cut 17-carat emerald in the center. A simple but effective idea. Also with emeralds are a pair of earrings and a ring in satin pink gold and diamonds. Finally, earrings with sapphires arranged in the typical irregular pavé that characterizes Antonini’s jewels.
Antonini presents new pieces, with pearls, of the Extraordinaire haute couture line ♦ ︎
With small steps in haute couture. These are the ones performed by Sergio Antonini, designer of the Milanese brand of the same name, who adds new pieces to the Extraordinaire collection every year. Little at a time. On the one hand there are the variations on the theme of the pavé, with concave rings that host precious stones of different sizes and with an apparently casual disposition. For example, the leaf-shaped pendant with emeralds presented at VicenzaOro September is added to this series.
Read also: Antonini again Extraordinaire
On the other hand, there are also pieces with a different style, such as a ring and a necklace with a pendant that recall almost a Victorian era, but updated with a modern design. The two new jewels that are added to the Extraordinaire line are made of black rhodium-plated gold, in which lines of small diamonds are set, and with a large white pearl. Unique pieces, like the others from the Maison’s top line.
The appointment is eagerly awaited, but also with concern from many designers. Those that are present at the Couture Show in Las Vegas. But in the end, even this year the Couture Design Awards were announced after an evening of supense ♦
The awards were distributed, as always, without prejudice and surprises were not lacking. Here is the list of winners:
Best in Bridal
Winner: Jade Trau
First Runner Up: TAP by Todd Pownell
Second Runner Up: Polly Wales
Best in Colored Gemstones Above $20,000
Winner: Adam Foster
First Runner Up: Antonini
Second Runner Up: VRAM
Best in Colored Gemstones Below $20,000
Winner: Noor Fares
First Runner Up: Stephen Webster
Second Runner Up: Alice Cicolini
Best in Diamonds Above $20,000
Winner: Kataoka jewelry and objets d’art
First Runner Up: Gem Platinum
Second Runner Up: Hearts On Fire
Best in Diamonds Below $20,000
Winner: Baentelli
First Runner Up: Swati Dhanak
Second Runner Up: ANDY LIF Jewelry
Best in Gold
Winner: Nikos Koulis
First Runner Up: Bibi van der Velden
Second Runner Up: Isabella Fa
Best in Haute Couture
Winner: Mike Joseph
First Runner Up: Selim Mouzannar
Second Runner Up: Giovanni Ferraris
Best in Innovative
Winner: Silvia Furmanovich
First Runner Up: Federica Rettore
Second Runner Up: Graziela
Best in Men’s
Winner: Jan Leslie
First Runner Up: Shamballa
Second Runner Up: Victor Mayer
Best in Pearls
Winner: Karen Suen
First Runner Up: Assael
Second Runner Up: Moksh
Best in Platinum
Winner: Jorg Heinz
First Runner Up: Schaffrath
Second Runner Up: BQ Jewelry
Best in Silver
Winner: Syna
First Runner Up: Nancy Newberg
Second Runner Up: John Hardy
Best in Debuting at Couture
Winner: Ara Vartanian
First Runner Up: Ananya
Second Runner Up: Lotus Arts de Vivre
Editor Choice
Vendorafa
(originally in the Best in Diamonds Below $20,000)
People’s Choice
Gismondi 1754
(originally entered in Haute Couture category)
Surprisingly, the Cindy Edelstein Award was awarded to industry veteran Michelle Orman, president of Last Word Communication, which manages public relations for Couture and JA New York shows, and a host of other jewelry projects.
As we anticipated on gioiellis.com, the 2019 edition of the awards also inaugurated the playful WTF Award? Assigned to the biggest failure in jewelry design. An honor that went to Stephen Webster.
Antonini’s secular birthday celebrated with the Cento100 collection in gold and diamonds ♦ ︎
To have a hundred years and not to feel them. The recipe for longevity is simple: do not stop, change, but without changing your nature. How you do it? Ask Antonini, Maison of Milan, who has turned off the hundred candles in lightness. But he wanted to emphasize the importance of the finish line with a collection. You guessed it: the collection is called Cento100, written in letters and in number. “It is also a way to localize the collection in the various countries in which we are present”, explains the designer, Sergio Antonini. “The number, in fact, is pronounced differently according to the language. For example, the Americans say Cento-one hundred, the French Cento-cent and so on. ” Antonini, however, also uses to link the collections to Italian locations, such as Syracuse, Matera, Etna. And Cento is, in fact, also the name of a small town in Emilia Romagna, with a famous portico. Also from this point of view, in short, tradition is respected
Cento100 is a ready-to-wear collection in shiny gold and diamonds, with soft and sinuous shaped jewels.
Forms reminiscent of those of Anniversary, one of the most successful collections in the recent history of the brand, designed in 2009 for the birthday number 90. The Cento100 collection is very wide, includes many variations. Chains, rings and earrings are offered in simple yellow or white gold, or with pavé and diamonds set at 45 degrees in color F. A curiosity: the outer back of the shank of the rings has a small flat surface that allows the jewel to remain straight when it is laid, like a flower.
Earrings with 12 emeralds by Antonini and other Extraordinaire jewels made with the green gem ♦ ︎
One thing is certain: green is an extraordinary color. It is the hue of the leaves, of the woods, of the forests. But also some sea beds, many foods and, last but not least, emeralds. Perhaps this is why Antonini has dedicated some pieces of his Extraordinaire line to this precious stone.
This is the haute couture production of the Milanese Maison. These are unique pieces that every year Sergio Antonini combines with other collections. Sophisticated design and particularly fascinating stones are the ingredients of these jewels.
For example, a pair of earrings with 12 round-cut emeralds, ending with a rhodium-plated white gold pendant covered with diamonds, is the latest Extraordinaire creation.
And that the emerald is one of the stones that most stimulate the designer of the Milanese house is witnessed by the fact that other haute couture jewels use the green gem. Like the ring that has a cushion-cut emerald in the center, surrounded in turn by a surface covered by other small emeralds, a mosaic that seems to have come directly from the forests of the Amazon. Lavinia Andorno
Antonini on the sugar loaf
A few more pieces of Antonini’s Extraordinaire line presented at the Couture Show in Las Vegas ♦ ︎
New unique pieces by Antonini. They are jewels of the Extraordinaire line, which the Milanese Maison has also presented this year at the Couture Show in Las Vegas. The extra pieces at the most important event organized in the USA, high-end jewelry made to measure of the selected stones, are now a classic for the brand of creative director Sergio Antonini. Even if unique pieces, however, the new rings and necklaces do not deviate from what is the stylistic signature, with pavé with stones of irregular size, as in the tested Etna or Matera collections. In addition, however, extraordinaire stones are used, such as the large sugar loaf-cut emerald. Extra pieces also three necklaces with pearls in white or yellow gold, earrings and ring always with emerald set in the center, with oval cut or cushion. Lavinia Andorno
Antonini brings Etna to Las Vegas
Antonini at the Couture in Las Vegas with new pieces from the Etna collection: gold, diamonds, black rhodium silver ♦ ︎
From the Etna of Antonini a new creative pouring. This time the precious magma will slide through the rooms of the Couture in Las Vegas. The Milanese brand driven by the creative hand of Sergio Antonini presents, in fact, new pieces of the Etna collection, already shown at VicenzaOro January. The style and technique of the collection recalls that used for Matera, a line that combines materiality with design. The pavé on the surface of the jewels, more dense or more sparse, seems composed of stones, actually diamonds positioned in a seemingly random manner. The new pieces are made of yellow, satin or polished gold, but also in black rhodium-plated silver, reminiscent of lava stone. Bracelets, earrings, rings also have a particular workmanship in their inner part, not visible, which manages to lighten the volume and, therefore, the weight of the jewel. Giulia Netrese
Moi et Troi rings, composed of three gems mounted on gold: mini collection with a touch of humor ♦ ︎
They passed almost in silence, “hidden” by the other stronger collections, such as Syracuse, Extraordinaire or Etna. But Antonini for 2018 also presented three rings that are worth observing. The rings are called, with subtle humor, Troi et Moi. The word play refers to the exchange between the word Toi (you, in French) and Troi (three, always in the language of Molière). Toi et Moi is a classic setting for rings, which consists in opposition of two ends of the jewel’s stem, which usually end with a gem. In this case, however, the stones are three, hence the calembour. The rings are made of black rhodium gold or yellow or pink gold. The stones used are blue topaz, citrine and smoky quartz. Always for three, of course. Alessia Mongrando
Antonini under the volcano with the Etna collection: gold, rhodium silver and diamonds ♦ ︎
From Matera to Syracuse, from Syracuse to Etna, the volcano that overlooks Catania, in Sicily. Antonini is a historic Maison in Milan that, like many Italians (and others) in the North, loves Mediterranean atmospheres with strong colors. Naturally, given that Antonini is famous for its modern and often surprising design, the South is filtered through the lenses of the style that characterizes the brand’s collections.
In this case, the first aspect that you can be seen in front of the Etna collection are the surfaces of the jewels. Often concave, as in the rings, the surfaces are studded with small irregularities, so studied that they seem casual. It is an effect that simulates a stony ground, as in nature. But these little obstacles guard, in reality, tiny diamonds that increase the “sparkle” of the jewel. In some models the diamonds are transformed into a complete pavé on the whole surface. Rings, bracelets, earrings and colliers, reminiscent of the lava stones of Etna, Unesco heritage, are made of gold or black rhodium silver. Lavinia Andorno
Antonini Extraordinaire again
The unique pieces of Extraordinaire, the haute couture line by Antonini ♦ ︎
What is not usual, though precious, is Extraordinaire. The philosophy of Antonini, in fact, has for some time alternated collections such as Syracuse or Etna in unique pieces, which obviously present the same design style, but constitute separate jewels. In VicenzaOro January, for example, Sergio Antonini, creative mind of the Maison in Milan, presented a new sortie of this non-collection. The haute couture line includes jewels in yellow gold or white satin, in which are emeralds of different cuts and sizes, placed on a concave surface. Or rings with a rough diamond in the center surrounded by other smaller whites. It’s Extraordinaire also a necklace adjustable in length with emeralds set in gold this time shiny. The two black laces end with small pyramids made with a pavé of diamonds. Unique pieces, in fact, like small planets that about once a year enter the orbit of the jewelry brand to transit in a fleeting apparition.
Read also: Antonini returns to Syracuse
I pezzi unici di Extraordinaire la linea haute couture di Antonini ♦︎
Quello che non è abituale, seppure prezioso, è Extraordinaire. La filosofia di Antonini, infatti, da tempo alterna collezioni come Siracusa o Etna a pezzi unici, che presentano ovviamente lo stesso stile di design, ma costituiscono gioielli a se stanti. A VicenzaOro January, per esempio, Sergio Antonini, mente creativa della Maison di Milano, ha presentato una nuova sortita di questa non-collezione. La linea di haute couture comprende gioielli in oro giallo o bianco satinato, in cui sono incastonati smeraldi di diversi tagli e dimensioni, posti su una superficie concava. Oppure anelli con al centro un diamante grezzo circondato da altri più piccoli bianchi. Sempre Extraordinaire è una collana regolabile in lunghezza con smeraldi incastonati in oro questa volta lucido. I due lacci neri terminano con piccole piramidi realizzate con un pavé di diamanti. Pezzi unici, appunto, come piccoli pianeti che circa una volta l’anno entrano nell’orbita del brand di gioielli per transitare in una fugace apparizione.
Leggi anche: Antonini torna a Siracusa
Among Antonini’s new products presented at VicenzaOro January there is also a capsule collection of the Siracusa line ♦
Last year the jewels won an International Palladio Award as Best Italian Brand Collection. So why not propose an encore of the Siracusa collection? This is how Antonini, a Milanese Maison active since 1919, among other innovations of VincenzaOro January decided to propose new pieces of the line dedicated to the Sicilian city, as well country of Archimedes and Euclid. And the collection itself, which is a tribute to the birth of geometry, is expanded with a new look. Sergio Antonini, the creative mind of the jewelery brand, proposes a capsule collection with pieces that set about 160 sapphires in the setting of white gold, which recreate the idea of the Mediterranean sea in front of the city. But the collection also includes double rings with white diamonds and pieces in bright yellow gold, rather large, with thin lines of small diamonds set. The same shape of the ring is also used as a pendant to stop laces, always in yellow gold, that make up a necklace. Lavinia Andorno
Two choker for Antonini
Antonini adds two choker to the Atolli and Matera collections. Images and price ♦ ︎
The multi-awarded collections Atolli and Matera of Antonini expand for the summer with an eye to autumn. Two choker arrive, a type of necklace that has come back preeminently in fashion and often “extends” lines of jewels consolidated. As is the case with Atolli, who introduced in the Maison of Milan the use of jett: a black fossil stone, matching gold and diamonds, white or black. The collection Matera, on the other hand, is made up of jewels with a concave surface covered by a pavé of diamonds, white or champagne, recalling in miniature the extraordinary architecture of the Italian city excavated in the tufa. Now two jewels of these collections can also be used together with a lanyard to tie to the neck. Prices: choker Matera 2.800 euros, Choker Atolli 3.950 euros. Lavinia Andorno