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Giovanni Raspini in Optical version

Published on May 22, 2023

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According to the official definition, what goes by the name of optical is an abstract art form, where the contrast of colors and geometric shapes serve to produce a three-dimensional visual effect. Or it is made up of surfaces that create unexpected perspectives. The optical style has been widely used in fashion, especially half a century ago, with fabrics characterized by geometric shapes with irregular checks or black and white bands. That same concept of white interspersed with black is now the inspiration for the new Optical collection by Giovanni Raspini.

Collana Optical in argento e onice — Optical necklace in silver and onyx

The Tuscan silver specialist was inspired by the fashion of the sixties, but with the use of small spheres in hammered silver, interspersed with the black of shiny black onyx stones. The contrast of colors does not cause deceptive perspectives to the eye, but a comfortable regular geometry. The Optical collection is offered in four necklaces and four bracelets in various sizes and lengths.

Collana lunga Optical — Optical long necklace

Bracciale Optical in argento e onice — Optical bracelet in silver and onyx

Giovanni Raspini’s fireworks

Published on April 22, 2023

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Blue is the color of summer and in the summer it is easy to come across fireworks displays. The Fireworks collection by Giovanni Raspini is made of burnished silver with completely hand-modeled elements. The jewels are tuned to summer, inspired by light and color thanks to the union of burnished silver with mystic quartz with a rainbow effect. It is a particular processing of transparent quartz, to which a thin film is applied which adds colored effects, even with rainbow shades. It is precisely this aspect that led him to choose the name Fireworks.

Anello grande in argento e quarzo mystic

Like a firework, the brightness of silver combines with the iridescent colors of mystic quartz. The collection includes a large necklace, a pendant, two rings, two bracelets, and two earrings. The jewels are made with thin silver stems at the top of which a stone is set, with a style that deliberately recalls the explosion of fireworks in the sky.

Bracciale rigido in argento e quarzi della collezione Fireworks

Giovanni Raspini men’s silver rings and bracelets

Published on March 12, 2023

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Men’s silver rings, men’s silver bracelet, men’s silver necklace: these are some of the hottest searches on Google. And the jewelers confirm: there is great interest in jewelery for men. A brand specializing in silver jewelery such as Giovanni Raspini also interprets this fashion (or necessity?). This is why the Tuscan brand presents two lines of jewelery for men. There are four rings made of molten and burnished silver, with a hammered effect, which mount a black onyx stone of great chromatic depth, but also with turquoise pearls.

The rings are of two types, with flat round or square stones, and of two sizes, large or small, in the form of the classic chevalier ring. But it is said that they should be worn on the little finger. Giovanni Raspini proposes the Dadini line, with elements in molten and burnished silver, alternating with black onyx, with two bracelets and two necklaces with a prevalence of onyx, or with more silver cubes.

Giovanni Raspini’s Boules

Published on December 19, 2022

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The ancients believed that the universe was made up of celestial spheres. In the Ptolemaic system the sky was composed of spherical layers, like a kind of onion: the stars and planets, according to this simple image, were fixed on spheres similar to orbits, of different sizes, located one inside the other, with in the center the Earth. It is not so, as we know, we are just a speck of dust in the cosmos, but the concept of the sphere continues to fascinate humanity for its perfection. It is therefore not strange that jewelers such as Giovanni Raspini put the shape of the sphere at the center for some collections.

As in the case of the Boules line, which includes four choker necklaces with a pendant in the shape of a small empty silver sphere inside. The four decorative motifs of the sphere have a name: Perlage, Intrecci, Margherite and Stelle. The same motifs are also used for the pairs of ear studs.

Giovanni Raspini in the myth of Jackie

Published on November 11, 2022

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Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis, née Bouvier, was the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of President John F. Kennedy. But she Jackie, as she was familiarly called, was also an influencer before social networks existed. She has been a model for fashion and the so-called jet-set, and over time she has become a myth. Perhaps Giovanni Raspini thought of her in the proposal for the Jackie collection. Characteristic of the collection is the use of silver with hollow barrel processing and the insertion of double turned rings, welded by hand with a geometric rhythm. This technique allows you to get large jewelry, but with a light weight, more easily wearable.

Gioielli della collezione Jackie indossati

Like other flagship collections of the Florentine brand, Jackie is also offered in two different versions: versions, one in traditional silver and the other in gilded silver. For each version there is a necklace, three bracelets and two earrings of the same shape, but different sizes.

The Bubbles by Giovanni Raspini

Published on October 19, 2022

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Soap bubbles, financial bubbles, champagne bubbles, shampoo bubbles, water bubbles in which the paste is immersed: how many bubbles is life dotted with? Now there are more bubbles: they are those of the new Bubbles collection by Giovanni Raspini. The Tuscan jewelry company, which has long been launched on the international market, offers a series of jewels designed using the lost wax casting method. It goes without saying that the subject of the jewels are the silver spheres, placed close to each other, in clusters, resulting in rather marked volumes.

Collezione Bubble indossata — Collezione Bubbles worn

But these are not just round balls. The silver used for the jewels is hammered, in order to create an irregular surface, capable of creating chiaroscuro light effects. The silver, in fact, is partly burnished and contrasts with the surface which retains its natural color. The Bubbles collection consists of a necklace, a pendant, two bracelets (rigid and articulated), two rings and three earrings.

Bracciale e orecchini Bubble indossati — Bracciale e orecchini Bubbles indossati

Giovanni Raspini in the Byzantine version

Published on June 7, 2022

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Byzantium is the oldest name of today’s city of Istanbul, on the banks of the Bosphorus, the largest urban center in Turkey. The city was called Byzantium in the Greco-Roman period, until the refoundation of the city in 330, by the Roman emperor Constantine, with the name of New Rome, but then known as Constantinople. Byzantium was founded by colonists from Megara in 659 BC. and it was named in honor of their king Byzas. The Byzantine link chain model, which has a particular weave, dates back to that historical period.

Now Giovanni Raspini also proposes that type of intertwining with the Byzantine collection, made entirely by hand, with jewels obtained by hammering silver square section links. The collection includes bracelets, necklaces and earrings in natural silver, or in silver dipped in gold: a treatment that, given the volume of the jewels, makes bracelets and necklaces particularly visible. On the other hand, Byzantium was famous for its golds.

Bracciale a maglia bizantina in argento martellato

Collana Maglia Bizantina Martellata 2 — Collana a maglia bizantina in argento martellato

Giovanni Raspini, the simple circles of Silk

Published on May 6, 2022

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Even in jewelry, simplicity is everything. A circle, a smooth surface, a perfect geometric shape: after all, you don’t need much more to get a jewel that is able to face any situation and that resists fashions and the passing of the years. It is no coincidence that the circle has been the most used shape in jewelry for millennia. And it is also the shape adopted by Giovanni Raspini for the Silk collection.

The Silk collection is characterized, in fact, by its clean and essential lines. The Maison’s jewels are made as always in silver, which in this case is polished and makes the surface even smoother. The principle of less is more is applied here all the way. The jewels, which are basically of two types, are offered in different sizes: two necklaces, three bracelets and three hoop earrings. They are all the same, what varies is the size, which can better adapt to the shape and volume of the wearer’s body.

The butterflies of Giovanni Raspini

Published on March 26, 2022

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Giovanni Raspini, collana della collezione Butterfly

Butterflies fly in the spring sky in search of flowers, but they also know how to inspire jewelry collections. But not all jewelry collections inspired by the butterfly turn into objects that simulate the colorful flying insect. Giovanni Raspini, for example, has decided to call Butterfly a jewelry collection where butterflies look so much like spring flower corollas. The wings, in fact, surround spheres of pink mother of pearl. Seen from afar, the butterflies and pink mother-of-pearl are reminiscent of a flowery meadow. Seen closely, however, the classic shape of butterflies can be identified.

The jewels are cast in burnished silver, with the stylized element of the white butterfly contrasting with the pink mother-of-pearl doubled with cabochon-cut quartz. Butterfly jewels also play on the light-dark effect that derives from the three-dimensional nature of the surface. The collection includes three necklaces, two bracelets, two rings and two pairs of earrings.

Orecchini in argento, madreperla, quarzo

Bracciali in argento, madreperla, quarzo

Catena con pendente in argento, madreperla, quarzo

Tuareg jewels by Giovanni Raspini

Published on February 28, 2022

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A tea in the desert with Giovanni Raspini. Or, better, with one of the collections debuting for the spring-summer 2022 season. It is the Tuareg collection, inspired by the exotic atmospheres made up of sand dunes and the folklore of the Berber populations who live in tents on the edge of the Sahara. Clothes, colors and jewels of these tribes inspired Giovanni Raspini in the creation of the Tuareg collection, made of gilded silver. But not only that, because the collection, taking inspiration from the suggestions of the desert, uses a palette of four colors: gold, the turquoise of the sky, the brown-sand of desert rocks and the indigo blue of the clothes.

In the Tuareg collection, gilded silver is combined with turquoise aulite, with the polished village stone (used by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence since the sixteenth century) and with blue agate with inclusions of bronzite. The jewels also include figurative elements such as tassels, scarabs, camels and above all ancient coins, of great visual impact. The collection comes in three necklaces, three bracelets and two pairs of earrings.

Orecchini grandi della collezione Tuareg

Giovanni Raspini’s anemones

Published on November 19, 2021

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the Greek word ἀνεμώνη (anemōnē) means “daughter of the wind”. And in the book Ovid’s Metamorphoses it is said that the plant was created by the goddess Aphrodite when she sprinkled nectar on the blood of her deceased lover Adonis. Furthermore, Anemone can also refer to Nea’man, the Phoenician name of Adonis, and also to the ancient Syrian myth of the god of vegetation, depicted with the tusks of a boar. In short, the anemone transformed by Giovanni Raspini into a collection of silver jewelry is inspired by this flowering plant, which is part of the Ranunculaceae family native to the temperate and subtropical regions of all continents except Australia and New Zealand.

The new collection of the Tuscan brand is called Anemone mini and is made of silver with burnished finishes and natural freshwater pearls. In jewels, the petals use silver, while the center of the flower is represented by the pearl. The collection includes rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets. And it never fades.

The snakes by Giovanni Raspini

Published on October 10, 2021

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The snake, in addition to being a reptile, is also one of the darlings of jewelers. Bracelets, rings and necklaces in the shape of the sinuous animal have been adopted by large and small brands. Giovanni Raspini also proposes for the next season Serpenti (snakes), a silver collection inspired by the limbless animal, which over the centuries has been taken as a symbol of a dark side, or of a sensual temptation, as evidenced by the story of the Bible. But all this takes a back seat in the snake-inspired jewelry collections, which use the scales and the elongated shape of the reptile for the different types of ornaments.

In addition, in the Serpenti collection by Giovanni Raspini, details are added such as the small invisible joints of the necklace, which allow the jewel to adapt better to the shape of the body and therefore offer better wearability. Each piece is offered in two versions, a more figurative one, where the snake’s shapes are more evident, and a more minimal one, where the reptile skin is the protagonist.

Silver crocodile with Giovanni Raspini

Published on July 20, 2021

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The word crocodile comes from the ancient Greek krokódilos, which means lizard. But now it also means a silver collection signed by Giovanni Raspini. The scaly skin of reptiles, in fact, has a geometry that has always been an object of inspiration in the fields of fashion, design and jewelry. The new line of jewelry called Crocodile takes inspiration from the previous Moon Crocodile collection, and like the one that preceded it, it develops the texture of the reptile skin on a modular silver crescent element.

The type of metalwork chosen by the Florentine Maison also aims to favor wearability and lightness, despite the thick volumes. As for the Petra collection, the Crocodile line presents a version in natural silver (with a bangle and three third circle with a more spherical shape) next to pieces made of gilded silver, declined in the same models.

Bali collection by Giovanni Raspini

Published on July 1, 2021

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Collana Bali in argento dorato, diaspro color sabbia e turchese, a cui si aggiungono minute riproduzioni di antiche monete mediterranee

Giovanni Raspini on holiday in Bali. And, for the occasion, the Tuscan king of silver reduces the weight of the metal for a flash collection, the first promoted in the middle of summer. The Bali collection indicates a path of research and experimentation, which focuses on the design of volumes and color combinations. There is silver, but it is in thin discs that alternate with stones, in natural or golden color. The collection has an almost ethnic flavor, deliberately naive, and plays with the colors and irregularities of the stones used for bracelets and necklaces.

The collection features three twin sets: each is declined in a necklace, a bracelet and a pair of cascading earrings, with the combination of hammered metal discs and colored stones. Bali Red is in gilded silver, sand-colored jasper and red madrepora. Bali Blu uses silver in its natural color, along with turquoise and green jasper.

Finally, there is simply Bali, the flagship jewel of the collection, made of gilded silver, sand and turquoise jasper, to which are added minute reproductions of ancient Mediterranean coins, also in gilded silver.

Orecchini Bali in argento dorato, diaspro color sabbia e turchese

Orecchini Bali Blue — Orecchini Bali Blu con argento naturale, turchese e diaspro verde

Bracciale Bali in argento dorato, diaspro color sabbia e turchese, a cui si aggiungono minute riproduzioni di antiche monete mediterranee

Bracciale Bali Red, in argento dorato, diaspro color sabbia e madrepora rossa

Collana Bali Red, in argento dorato, diaspro color sabbia e madrepora rossa

Collana Bali Blucon argento naturale, turchese e diaspro verde — Collana Bali Blu con argento naturale, turchese e diaspro verde

The first Petra by Giovanni Raspini

Published on June 5, 2021

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Petra, one by Giovanni Raspini new collections, focuses on volume and the sense of matter. As always, silver is the basis of the collections of the Tuscan Maison. But on some occasions, such as in the Petra line, alongside the natural metal jewelry, there is also a version in gold-plated silver. The texture of the worked metal, with wrinkles and small folds, suggest a studied minimalism. But the name of the collection, Petra (poetic variant of the Italian word stone), alludes to the choice of creating an apparent roughness of the surfaces of the jewels.

The remarkable volume of the jewels, almost oversized, to underline a strong character of the collection. But the inside of the circles of bracelets and earrings is empty, and this allows you to wear these voluminous jewels without feeling their weight. The silver version collection includes a pendant, a ring, an earring and a bangle, while the gilded silver version is limited to an earring and a rigid bracelet.

Sicily by Giovanni Raspini

Published on May 1, 2021

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Tuscan silver goes to Sicily. It is the silver of Giovanni Raspini, who chooses the Italian island as the source of inspiration for his new collection: Sicily. With a novelty by the standards of the Florentine brand: burnished silver and worked as always with a sculptural style, in the Sicily collection is also accompanied by small freshwater pearls. Pearls and silver alternate on bracelets and necklaces for a contrast that enriches the jewels and adds a baroque tone. It is no coincidence that Sicily boasts a rich heritage of architecture and art from this artistic style.

Not only that: in homage to the Mediterranean Sea, which surrounds the coasts of the island, alongside the pearls there are also silver castings in the shape of shells, sea urchins, starfish and small luminous spheres. A style that, in addition to paying homage to Sicily, recalls the upcoming summer atmospheres. Giovanni Raspini’s Sicily collection offers two necklaces, three bracelets and four earrings.

Bracciale in argento e perle della collezione Sicily

Giovanni Raspini on the Silver Thread

Published on March 25, 2021

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One of Giovanni Raspini‘s new collections for spring 2021 is called Fili (threads) and is made, like others, with the lost-wax casting technique. As it is known, it is an ancient technique used for sculptures that was even introduced in the Bronze Age. According to archaeological findings, the lost wax technique was used as early as 3500 BC. by the Sardinian populations and has known a considerable diffusion especially in the art of Sardinia (Italy) and then in Greek and Roman art and in monumental sculpture.

The Fili collection uses the lost-wax casting technique to sculpt the volumes of the silver jewels, with an accentuated burnishing to accentuate the design. The jewels, in fact, are designed as if a silver thread were wrapped around it. In this way the movement is enhanced and the repetition of the stylistic concept achieves an interesting chiaroscuro effect. The collection features two necklaces, two bracelets, two rings and two hoop earrings.

Giovanni Raspini, silver scales

Published on February 23, 2021

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A silver jewelry collection inspired by a fox’s skull. It is a rather unusual idea. But it must be added that Giovanni Raspini’s Skin collection for spring-summer 2021 is, in reality, the continuation of an artistic creation by the Florentine jeweler: the Skull of Fox necklace, one of the pieces that were part of the Jewels from a Wunderkammer. In the exhibition, Raspini’s creativity was expressed in unique pieces in which gilded silver was used together with hydrothermal quartz in various colors and, in the case of the necklace, together with a fox skull that had belonged to a Florentine painter.

The Skin collection takes up the motif of juxtaposed scales, used for the jewel that appeared in the exhibition, and adapted to the design of two necklaces, two bracelets, two rings and two earrings. The jewels are made with blackened silver, the slightly irregular contours add a hint of naturalist realism in the reproduction of the scales inspired by the animal world.

Giovanni Raspini, Autumn Flat

Published on November 18, 2020

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Flat, without corner. But with curves. A new collection of silver jewelry by Giovanni Raspini, a Tuscan brand specializing in white metal processing, is called Flat in homage to simplicity. Not everyone is looking for elaborate silver workings, or a design that is too elaborate. Sometimes it is better to opt for the more immediate route which, in this case, seems to have been largely achieved.

The jewels of the Flat collection represent the essentiality of circular shapes, together with the strength of the effect generated by the hand-hammered metal, which gives silver a particular brightness. The silver jewelry line offers a necklace, five bracelets, three earrings and two rings. In a bracelet and a ring, there is a special spiral shape that multiplies the movement of the jewel. They are simple jewels, which can be combined with any type of dress and worn on virtually any occasion.

Giovanni Raspini Ad Astra

Published on October 23, 2020

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An ancient Latin motto says: per aspera ad astra. That is, through the asperity until to the stars. It is a good saying that needs to be repeated, especially in this difficult period. In short, the stars are an ideal destination, until they truly will become a tourist resort like many others. But, for now, you have to be content with looking at them from afar, or wearing them.

In this last case we are dealing with virtual stars, symbols, such as those of the Ad Astra collection by Giovanni Raspini, a Florentine jeweler and silversmith. The crescent moon is the star of this collection. In this is case it’s made of partly burnished silver. The collection takes shape from the stylistic synthesis between small silver spheres and natural freshwater pearls, in a classic and at the same time contemporary mix. The Ad Astra collection includes a pendant, a bracelet, a double necklace, three types of earrings and a ring. In addition to a good dose of fascination for the stars in the sky.

Bracciale in argento e perle di acqua dolce