Surely those who wear the pendant Serenity Firefly will not be afraid of flying. In fact, this unique jewel seems made for lovers of the flight: and despite the prejudices there are many, even among women. The pendant is made to be hung on a necklace (there are two lengths, 40 or 45 cm) and is dedicated to lovers of clouds and takeoffs: is made of 14k white gold, diamonds and yellow sapphires. But it is also a trinket fun can be locked in any desired position. It is made from Glasmann and Hanson Jewelry, Denver, Colorado. Costs almost € 1,000 (€ 1,256 with the chain), on Etsy. G.N.
The Soul of Capri with Chantecler
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Jewelry with Anima ( the italian word for soul), the one of Chantecler. The new collection of caprese brand is all in its symbols, Bell, Rooster, Logo, Cornetto and Joyful, and in the island-style, simple yet sophisticated. Soft and light shapes, available in yellow gold and white mother of pearl, gilded like sunlight, rose gold and mother of pearl gray, iridescent enough to evoke the sea and the colors of nature. Chevalier rings, delicate pendants, ovals and round links bracelets, necklaces and earrings to match everything. «The island is a wonderful gift of nature, a great source of artistic inspiration: if you’re lucky enough to live in a place filled with the beauty, the soul is transformed», assures Costanza Aprea, daughter of Salvatore, partner of Pietro Capuano, founder of the maison. To tell the Chantecler aesthetics and that atmosphere so special, the brothers Aprea have decided to publish a book edited by Rizzoli (221 pages, 60 €) Capri Jewels, The Love and Creation of Beauty, to celebrate both the craftsmanship and creativity distinguish the history of the maison, both shapes that follow the spirit of the time. Like those of Anima. Here pictures and prices. Monica Battistoni
Giulia Jewels urban style
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When the styles of earlier eras are trendy: the Metropolitan collection by Giulia Jewels, is inspired by an architecture that has become fashionable even though looks to the past. The tubes of scaffolding used in renovated lofts and the neo-Gothic revivalism with pink bricks and burnished iron that characterizes many buildings of industrial archeology, are reflected in the style of these new bracelets, necklaces and earrings designed by Giulia and Graziella, holders of Arezzo brand born in 2012. They are all in bronze with various finishes, made with silver and pink or yellow gold galvanic and brushed by hand to achieve the desired effect: there is the opaque metal sandblasted gold, the shiny silver with some parts darker and one with flashes of pink light. Here are pictures and prices. Monica Battistoni
Swarovski in the spring garden
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Form pastel shades to vibrant colors: the Swarovski Spring / Summer 2015 collection is inspired by nature. In fact, Crystal Garden, this is its name, is a garden where the sun shines with golden metal and crystals cut pear, oval and navette are pistils and petals of flowers, butterflies and dragonflies. The soft spring palette of pink, aqua green and lilac is the element of Clay line, but the season is at its peak with the large Crystal Pearls and bright shades set on plexiglass of the Celeste’s theme, while the sense of summer can be found in Cyan, in openworked metal with bright blue crystals hues. Candy series is a tribute to the organic forms, especially butterflies with other soft tones. Besides, there are about 150 colors available, a range that shines, in part, in Sturdust bracelets: single or double wrap they features respectively 730 and 1460 tiny crystals enclosed in a tulle casing, also available in two-tone or as a necklace. And there are also geometric motifs and more minimalist: from the Crown necklace, a triumph of gold and crystals, to the Click rings with two rows of metal rosé beads and two of white crystals, up to Cubist cuff, in openworked metal and crystals pavé. Matilde de Bounvilles
Pandora Essence makes an encore
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It’s been almost a year since the launch of Essence, the collection of 24 charms of Pandora, which represent some of the values of every woman’s life: joy, hope, love, loyalty, passion, balance, compassion and well-being. To celebrate a “almost birthday,” the Danish company raises the same issues and the same colors, but with a different texture: the surface of the elements to be added to bracelets is now paved. So the delicate color of the charm Love is reproduced with the moonstone rose, the Passion with synthetic ruby. Along with Happiness form true love in the bracelets. Prices: from 55 euro bracelets and charms from 29 euro.
Life in pink by Michael Kors
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A lot of pink, a hint of blue and white and many crystals into Michael Kors custom jewellery for spring summer. The Fashion bracelet of past winter collection becomes even more new with the contrast between polished and matte of synthetic resin and steel mesh in rose gold. The antique pink hue colors also parure of necklace, bracelet and earrings, featuring a round synthetic resin insert set on steel and surrounded by crystals. Similar to those applied in Brilliance collection, with its elegant gold plated steel knot and pavé rhinestones, exactly. For a more sporty but chic accessory the Heritage bracelet with padlock covered in blue or white skin. Here pictures and prices of glitz and glamour line. Giulia Netrese
Together forever with Brosway
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Two circles intertwined into each other, together forever: the Romeo & Juliet new collection by Brosway evokes an unbreakable bond as design and an eternal feeling by the name. So, the company chose one of the most romantic stories of literature to celebrate love and for Valentine’s Day introduces six necklaces in steel or gold, embellished with Swarovski crystals, reflecting pink, blue and purple flashes. Prices: 49 euro for steel necklaces and 59 euro for the version most steel rose gold. Here the pictures. L.A.
Devoted Marlù
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The Sacred Heart by Marlù does not distinguish the gender. After all, how could it, since the company founded by sisters Fabbri chose a symbol of Christian devotion, which is love for all mankind, as the subject for their new collection. Which bears the same name and is designed for men and women. A golden steel heart with flame burning (burning feeling of love and charity) decorates rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Fortunately there are no thorns. Here pictures and prices. M.d.B.
Queriot pours a magic Potion
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In Civita, the imaginary city by Queriot where only good things happen, soul is fed with Pozioni, the new silver pendants (bottle shaped, exactly) which represent emotions and positive feelings such as love, peace and empathy. And it nourishes heart with Hope, another new pendant egg-shaped, with an opening on the back to cherish a message or a thought. And because life is also made of substance, here rolls and butter curls as beads and a Milk carton as a rattle that compose the bracelet Petit Dejuner. A warning: they are not eatable. Here images and prices. Matilde de Bounvilles
Raspini animalier
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Zebra and Cocco: also for this spring summer 2015 Giovanni Raspini remains faithful to tradition and launches two animalier themes. With a surprise: if the zoo of the Tuscan silversmith has a very powerful sign, pretty naturalistic and wild, all along, here is represented by engravings on silver and burnishing to evoke the zebra’s coat of with a play of chiaroscuro effects. And the same goes for the crocodile skin, which decorates the ends of two mesh necklaces and bracelets to put together a clasp wich is the main feature of the jewel. Which even so maintains the strong character of the Raspini’s style. Here are pictures and prices.
Lebole, pagne for Africa
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Pagne tendency: the fabric that blowing in the catwalks is also the theme of Africa, the new collection by Lebole Gioielli. Promoted by emerging designers with such a success that cross the borders of their countries, is not only a garment but a symbolic language and social identity typically African. So, it is rooted in the culture of the continent. And that’s why the outlines in lightweight wooden of the asymmetrical earrings, are a mask with the face’s details in fabric, to match with the map of Africa covered with cloth, or the female figure with a long fluttering skirt. The pagne, usually in cotton, is made with the wax-print technique born in Holland in the late nineteenth century. It consists in cover several times some parts of the fabric with wax and impregnate the remainder with various dye products, up to apply colors to the fabric with wooden pads, to get precise motives and shapes, with a religious significance also. In this case, however, the concept expressed is the one of solidarity: Lebole with the collection Africa supports the campaign Con le donne per vincere la fame of the humanitarian association Oxfam Italia. The goal is to give them tangible tools, from education and training, and therefore work, so to free from hunger and poverty many women and their families. G. N.
Zoppini goes for four
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[wzslider]In life it always takes some heart, just enough to convince Zoppini to choose this theme for four collections: Queen, Jaipur, Dreamdust and Chantal. Whether it is steel, silver, gold or blue stone there is no need to wait for the Valentine’s. So here pictures and prices.
An affordable heart
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A heart under 80 euro. It is what Qvc proposes, in different styles and for all tastes. There is a filigree pendant hanging from an irregular chain mesh with an ancient look, the most modern one with a double finish, one side sanded and the other polished, the classic pavé stones, in this case of Diamonique, very similar to diamonds, also in the earrings version. Or, for the more gritty girls, a faceted rose quartz embedded in a bronze cocktail ring setting.
The Stroili Valentine’s Day
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[wzslider]Lunar landscapes or optical but heart-shaped: the Valentine’s Day by Stroili is in two collections New Moon and Vanité reinterpreted just this occasion. Scratched and sandblasted surfaces in pinkish metal, embellished with stones of cubic zirconia and set to follow the contour of the jewel a heart within the heart of New Moon. And it is this kind of shape that soften Vanité collection’s geometries, which keeps the optical effects with alternating hand polished and enamelled parts in silver glitter. Here you have pictures and prices.
Valentine’s Day with Tous
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[wzslider]The bear Tous, as every year, is back for Valentine’s Day with shapes, colors and materials new and precious. In fact, the symbol of the company’s jewelery Barcelona led by Rosa Oriol and her husband Salvador Tous, becomes the O of Love, framed in a heart, and is wearing diamonds and blacks spinels to become a pendant or a bracelet with black and brown leather. Here you have pictures and prices of the idea of affordable luxury for lovers of the brand famous all over the world.
Arte Facta Est
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[wzslider]Wide curves on geometric setting: the collection Art Facta (brand of Milan) for next season is inspired by art deco. Use the brass and vitreous marbled paste, black, gray and blue, in rigorous colors as its rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces shapes. But even in powder pink and white variants, the jewelry designed by Ilaria Quotta remains a classic one. Sophisticated and discreet despite its size.and discreet despite its size. Matilde de Bounvilles
Hip Hip Ayala
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Do you like Indian style? Hip collection by Ayala Bar, the Israeli designer specialized in a technique similar to that of the mosaic, is inspired by the Inca’s art, the ancient people of Mexico. Result: a myriad of beads and tiles decorated by small designs repeated, in contrasting colors. And then metal flowers, chains, feathers, bicolor tassels and cones covered with fabric or metal mesh hung from elaborate necklaces or soft bracelets. Here you have pictures and prices. Giulia Netrese
Mattioli counts to One
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The rings are the protagonists of a adv campaign by Armando Testa: Licia Mattioli, soul of the brand, proposes the collection One in a new version. Portraits by photographer Michele Gastl, magician of the still life, the Mattioli jewels seem even more cut for a woman determined, self-confident. The collection, in addition to the rings, also consists of earrings, all pieces joined by an iconic shape: the oval. The jewels are composed of small pebbles polished, pink gold, but also of an original black gold, set with stones, which emerge as a bubbling of molten metal. Are used, jasper, brown diamonds, pink sapphires, prehnite, lilac jade, amethyst. In short, jewelry with a strong personality, just like the women to whom they are intended. Giulia Netrese
Two extra for Ferragamo
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Launched at the very beginning of this year, the collection of Ferragamo Galuchat closes the 2014 with two new jewelry: rings and necklaces are added to bracelet and earrings. They are always in yellow and pink gold and with leather inserts fish breed, ie shagreen, from the name of the artisan French in the eighteenth century he developed this method of processing using the dogfish shark skin or of race. Colorless diamonds, brown diamonds and amethysts add a precious touch to an object made of precious materials. In the earrings then there is also the symbol of the famous Ferragamo hook, studded with diamonds. Here are pictures and prices. Giulia Netrese
Mattioli ruggisce in stile art decò
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[wzslider]C’è la tigre, c’è il rinoceronte, c’è l’elefante, c’è il rinoceronte, ma non è uno zoo: la collezione Urban Animals di Mattioli fa parte del filone della gioielleria che si ispira al mondo naturale per esercizi di stile a base di oro e pietre preziose. I quattro animali selvaggi sono trasportati nella giungla urbana e diventano gruppi di anelli, bracciali, collana e orecchini. Lo stile? Un tribalismo che si coniuga a echi di art decò. Natura e cultura, insomma, con linee curve e angoli spezzati. Per gli animalisti più incerti, ogni pezzo è numerato e riporta inciso il nome della specie. Il muso di ogni animale accoglie dettagli in moonstone, kogolong, ossidiana e brillanti. Ma non c’è solo il fascino della foresta. Mattioli si ispira alla storia dell’arte italiana con due pezzi unici ispirati alle stagioni dell’Arcimboldo, pittore rinascimentale che dipingeva volti formati da frutti, ortaggi e libri. A Baselworld sono stati presentati Estate e Autunno, al prossimo VicenzaOro sarà la volta dell’Inverno: anelli composti da pietre preziose, testimonianza di un’eredità culturale che si trasferisce dalle pinacoteche alla gioielleria. Ecco immagini e prezzi. M.d.B.
There is a tiger, a bull, an elephant, and a rhino, but it is not a zoo: the Urban Animals collection by Mattioli, belongs to jewelry which is inspired by wild world, to do style’s exercises based on gold and precious stones. The four animals are transported in the urban jungle and become rings, bracelets, necklace and earrings. The style? A tribalism combined with art deco echoes. Nature and culture with curved lines and broken angles. Each piece is numbered and engraved with the name of the species, whose muzzle unveils many details in moonstone, Kogolong, obsidian and diamonds. But there is not only the charm of the forest. Mattioli looks at the the Italian history of art with two unique pieces inspired by the Arcimboldo’s portraits, a Renaissance painter famous for his composite heads made up of fruits, vegetables and books. At Baselworld were showed Summer and Autumn, at the next fair, the new edition of VicenzaOro, will be Winter’s turn: one of a kind rings, made up of precious stones, proof that of a cultural heritage that moves from art galleries to jewelry.
Mattioli rugit dans le style déco
Il est un tigre, un taureau, un éléphant et un rhinocéros, mais ce ne est pas un zoo: la collection Urban Animals par Mattioli, appartient à bijoux qui est inspiré par monde sauvage, pour exercices de style basé sur l’or et les pierres précieuses. Les quatre animaux sont transportés dans la jungle urbaine et deviennent bagues, bracelets, collier et boucles d’oreilles. Le style? Un combiné avec le tribalisme échos art déco. Nature et culture avec des lignes courbes et les angles brisés. Chaque pièce est numérotée et gravée avec le nom de l’espèce, dont le museau dévoile beaucoup de détails dans la pierre de lune, Kogolong, obsidienne et de diamants. Mais il ne est pas seulement le charme de la forêt. Mattioli regarde à l’histoire de l’art italien avec deux pièces uniques inspirés par les portraits du Arcimboldo, un peintre de la Renaissance célèbre pour ses têtes composé de fruits, de légumes et de livres. À Baselworld ont montré té et automne, lors de la prochaine foire, la nouvelle édition de VicenzaOro, sera le tour de hiver: bagues, composé de pierres précieuses, la preuve d’un patrimoine culturel qui se déplace de pinacothèque à la joaillerie.
Es ist ein Tiger, ein Stier, ein Elefant und ein Nashorn, aber es ist kein Zoo: das Urban Animals Sammlung von Mattioli, gehört zu Schmuck wich durch wilde Welt inspiriert, um Übungen Stil zu tun, basierend auf Gold und Edelsteinen. Die vier Tiere werden im Großstadtdschungel und transportiert werden Ringe, Armbänder, Halskette und Ohrringe. Der Stil? Ein Stammes mit Art-Deco-Echos kombiniert. Natur und Kultur mit geschwungenen Linien und gebrochen Winkeln. Jedes Stück ist nummeriert und mit dem Namen der Art, dessen Schnauze enthüllt viele Details in Mondstein, Kogolong, Obsidian und Diamanten eingraviert. Aber es ist nicht nur der Charme des Waldes. Mattioli schaut auf den italienischen Kunstgeschichte mit zwei Einzelstücke, inspiriert von der Arcimboldo Porträts, ein Renaissance-Maler berühmt für seine Verbundköpfe bestehend aus Obst, Gemüse und Bücher. Auf der Baselworld wurden, zeigten Sommer und Herbst, bei der nächsten Messe, die Neuauflage des VicenzaOro, wird wiederum von Winter sein: Ringe, bestehend aus Edelsteinen, der Beweis, dass ein kulturelles Erbe, das aus Pinakothek, um Schmuck geht.
Существует тигр, бык, слон, и носорог, но это не зоопарк: коллекция Urban Animals Mattioli, принадлежит ювелирной который вдохновлен дикий мир, делать упражнения стиль, основанный на золоте и драгоценных камней. Четыре животные перевозятся в городских джунглях и стать кольца, браслеты, колье и серьги. Стиль? Трайбализм в сочетании с арт-деко эхо. Природа и культура с изогнутыми линиями и сломанные углы. Каждая часть пронумерована и с выгравированным именем вида, которого морда представляет много деталей в лунный камень, Kogolong, обсидиан и бриллианты. Но есть не только очарование леса. Mattioli смотрит на итальянском истории искусства с двумя уникальными произведениями, вдохновленных портретов Arcimboldo, в живописец эпохи Возрождения известен своими композитных головок из фруктов, овощей и книг. В выставке Baselworld были продемонстрированы летом и осенью, на следующей выставке, новая редакция VicenzaOro, будет поворот зимы: Кольца из драгоценных камней, доказательство того, что культурного наследия, что движется из художественных галерей ювелирных изделий.
Hay un tigre, un toro, un elefante y un rinoceronte, pero no es un parque zoológico: la colección Urban Animales por Mattioli, pertenece a la joyería, que se inspira en el mundo salvaje, para hacer ejercicios de estilo basado en oro y piedras preciosas . Los cuatro animales son transportados en la jungla urbana y se convierten en anillos, pulseras, collar y pendientes. El estilo? Un tribalismo combinado con ecos del art déco. Naturaleza y cultura con líneas curvas y ángulos rotos en edición limitada. Cada pieza está numerada y grabada con el nombre de la especie, cuya boca da a conocer muchos detalles en piedra de luna, Kogolong, obsidiana y diamantes. Pero no sólo existe el encanto de la selva. Mattioli mira a la historia de arte italiana con dos piezas únicas inspiradas en los retratos de la Arcimboldo, un pintor renacentista famoso por sus cabezas compuestas de frutas, verduras y libros. En Baselworld mostró Verano y Otoño, en la próxima feria, la nueva edición de VicenzaOro, será el turno de Invierno: anillos hechos de piedras preciosas, la prueba de un patrimonio cultural que se mueve de las galerías de arte a la joyería.