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The future in the mosaics of the Sibyls

Published on November 14, 2022

Anello Odalisque: la superficie superiore può ruotare

Three virtuous women of the ancient Roman mosaic technique and jewelery are the soul of Le Sibille, a Maison that has great success especially abroad

The irresistible charm of the past. But with the impetus of those who see the future: with these premises Le Sibille proposes itself with its bridge between the ancient tradition of mosaic and modern technology that makes it possible to reduce the tesserae in miniature to compose jewels with an ambiguous flavor: they are part of the world of the past or are they proposed as modern accessories? Certainly Le Sibille also have the merit of having brought back to life a technique, that of the Roman minute mosaic, which risked being extinguished: it is used only in the Vatican for the restoration of ancient works of art.

Anello con scarabeo in oro 18 carati, brillanti, micromosaico

The idea is of three Roman women-artists: Camilla Bronzini, Francesca Neri Serneri and Antonella Perugini. Result: the rings, bracelets and collabne (which you see in the images), are made using gold, precious stones and small tesserae that make up classic figures, but also with an eye to the current taste, as in the case of the skull surrounded by rubies. For a jewel, 60 days of processing are required and, of course, with the artisan realization each piece is unique. They are also popular in the East, as demonstrated by the presence of Le Sibille at the recent Hong Kong International Gem and Jewelery Show.

Anello Cherry blossom in oro 18 carati, zaffiri, micro mosaico

Orecchini in oro 18 carati, micro mosaico

Orecchini Shiva, oro 18 carati, zaffiri blu, micro mosaico

Yemen ring in oro e micro mosaico — Yemen ring in oro 18 carati e micro mosaico

The new Sicis flowers

Published on May 24, 2022

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Anello con diamante giallo di 7,78 carati e micro mosaico

New rings, same art. Sicis, a small Italian Maison that has the use of the micro mosaic technique as its hallmark, has prepared new pieces of high jewelry. The occasion to present the new creations was Haute Jewels Geneva, an event dedicated to high-end jewelery to coincide with Watch & Wonders. On that occasion, the creative director of Sicis, Gioia Placuzzi, showed a new version of the Bohemian Dream ring, a jewel in the shape of a large flower, presented with shades that alternate from blue-violet to yellow-orange of the micromosaic and with a cluster of diamonds in the center, like stamens.

Not only. Sicis also presented other extraordinary jewels, such as a decomposable ring that has a large aquamarine in the center, surrounded by blue, green and red micromosaic elements, positioned like petals of a flower. A different compositional idea, but always with a floral inspiration, is instead that of another ring with a spectacular yellow diamond of 7.78 carats in the center. In addition to the micromosaic, in this case, the main stone is accompanied by a series of other brilliant-cut white diamonds. Or, again, the Butterfly Romance necklace, with a butterfly motif in a new passion red version, with the play of color created by the alternation between pink and white gold.

Absolute novelty is the Crazy Moon line: a whirlwind of semicircles of various sizes enriched with diamonds, amethysts, emeralds and sapphires. The seven separable rings of the Tesserae collection are each characterized by a central stone between 7 and 11 carats, which determines their style and personality. The central stone can be isolated from the micromosaic setting, to be recomposed as desired.

Anello Crazy Moon con diamanti, ametiste, smeraldi e zaffiri

Sicis Jewels in Doha with butterflies and ribbons

Published on May 7, 2022

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Collezione Ribbon, collana e anello indossati

The Sicis Jewels micro mosaic appeals to the luxurious world of the sheikhs. This is why the Ravenna Maison specializing in high-end jewelry using the ancient technique of micro mosaic returns to the Gulf after just over a month for the Doha Jewelery & Watches Exhibition, which takes place in Qatar. Sicis has a dedicated section within the Alfardan Jewelery stand and presents some news: multicolored butterflies, one of the favorite subjects in the Sicis Jewels collections.

These are rings that are the fruit of the creative passion of the artistic director Gioia Placuzzi. The jewels have a particularly realistic and detailed decoration, distinguished by a different color of sapphires in combination with white diamonds. Also new is the Ribbon collection, with rings and necklaces in the shape of a bow, with a shape inspired by the dresses of the famous Degas dancers. A different colored stone with an octagonal cut characterizes the design of each piece. The Doha event is also an opportunity to show iconic pieces of the brand, such as the Damisa necklace, which depicts a jaguar covered with micromosaic and sapphire flakes, holding an imperial topaz between its paws. Or the Quetzal set, inspired by the bird of the Amazon rainforest. Finally, collectible watches, such as the Gardenia with multicolored petals or the men’s timepieces from the Memento Mori series.

Realizzazione di un gioiello della collezione Farfalle

Collana e anello Ribbon indossati — Collana e anello Ribbon con topazio indossati

Anello con tormalina rosa e micro mosaico

Gioia Placuzzi. Copyright: gioiellis.com

The enchanted fate of Sicis

Published on July 4, 2021

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Gioia Placuzzi, creative director of Sicis Jewels, followed an enchanted destiny. The queen of the micro mosaic, after graduating in economics from Bocconi University in Milan and specializing in marketing at the Cass Business School in London, followed her passion until she graduated as a Graduate Gemologist at the Gemological Institute of America in London. The art of gems was then put into practice with the jewelry division of the family business, the Italian Sicis, specializing in mosaics.

But Incantate Destiny is also the name of the new high jewelery necklace. It is a special piece in white gold, with diamonds for 14.33 carats, tanzanites for 3.91 carats and rubellites for 4.23 carats. But the even more special aspect, in addition to the richness of the materials used, lies in the meticulous and patient work of composition through thousands of micro mosaic tiles, set to form the jewel’s pavé. No wonder that 300 hours of work were required to make this necklace. It is the destiny of Sicis expert craftsmen.

La collana in oro bianco, con diamanti per 14.33 carati, tanzaniti per 3,91 carati e rubelliti per 4,23 carati

Sicis’s game of fantasy

Published on November 9, 2020

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The exuberant imagination of Gioia Placuzzi, Sicis art director, has resulted in a new series of jewels. It is a series of seven rings of high jewelery, with the name of Tesserae collection, which do not bother to break the traditional schemes to navigate in absolute freedom. As always, alongside gold and precious and semi-precious stones, the jewels are also made with the use of the micro mosaic technique, the Sicis specialty.

Anello con zaffiro giallo di 11,70 carati

By creating these pieces we imagined important jewels to wear on special occasions, which can also be worn with ease, in our normal day, vibrant and extremely versatile.
Gioia Placuzzi, Sicis art director

The Secret Garden ring, for example, uses a 7.66-carat Fancy Yellow diamond. A rare gem, surrounded by a delicate flower frame in diamonds, white and yellow, and micromosaic: tiny tiles that can only be used by the very expert hands of the Maison’s artisans. Furthermore, the ring can be broken down into two jewels, with or without micromosaic. Another eclectic piece is Life, the name of a ring with a large 9.31-carat peridot. Around the stone there are small hemispheres elaborated in emerald green and purple amethyst micromosaic, all surrounded by diamonds and pink sapphires. Joyful, on the other hand, is a ring that sports a yellow sapphire of 11.70 carats from which, like rays, micromosaic elements, micro tesserae in shades of yellow, blue topaz and diamonds.

The Infinity ring has a 9.25-carat emerald-cut tanzanite in the center, which enhances the facets of its color between blue and purple and is surrounded by stylized butterfly wings. Concentric designs made with fine micromosaic miniatures, an intricate three-dimensionality of shapes and colors. These rings can also be disassembled, for a multipurpose use: the central element with the stone can be worn alone or completed with a micromosaic dress.

Anello Secret Garden con diamante fancy yellow di 7,66 carati

Bozzetto dell'anello Joyful — Bozzetto dell’anello Joyful

The Sicis alphabet

Published on April 14, 2020

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A, B, C, etc.: how many things can be said with a simple letter like those in the Alphabet collection by Sicis? The letter can refer to an initial of a word, a name, a month, or maybe a password that you forget too often. Collections based on the letters of the alphabet serve this purpose too. But of course, the first interesting aspect is that of the possibility of being worn.

The Alphabet collection by Sicis transforms letters into amulets. The letters are made with the micromosaic technique, combined with dense decorations of diamonds, rubies and other precious stones. The idea belongs to the art director, Gioia Placuzzi, who with her collaborators started from the history and culture of the alphabet, to develop a free interpretation, a fascinating project, where the letters become figurative signs, chromatic seductions, poetic metaphors , verbal games. The letters are combined with leather laces, which add an unconventional look to the jewel.

The extraordinary Sicis necklace dedicated to Calipso

Published on February 19, 2020

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Collana Calipso con 165 perle Akoya e diamanti

Calipso, nymph daughter of Atlas, who in the Odyssey welcomes the shipwrecked Odysseus on the island of Ogigia and, in love with him, holds him for seven years, until he receives the order from Zeus to let him leave. A woman undoubtedly fascinating also in the eyes of the Sicis designers, who dedicated some high jewelery pieces to Calipso.

As always the jewels of Sicis, Maison based in Ravenna, combine gold and precious stones with a delicate micro mosaic work. The Calipso necklace, furthermore, use 165 special and precious Akoya Light Blue pearls woven in a gold weave, alongside brilliant cut diamonds that intertwine and embrace elements decorated with micromosaic. Hundreds of tiny tiles line up and create designs in shades of sapphire blue and white, sinuous play of color and imperceptible reflections. The necklace, in particular, is a piece of high jewelery and of great value, not only for the difficult processing of the piece, but also for the quantity of Akoya pearls used. Surely Calipso would have liked it too.

Orecchini in oro bianco, diamanti, perle Akoya, micro mosaico

Gli elementi di vetro colorato da cui si ricava il micro mosaico

Sicis flowers and feathers in Singapore

Published on October 11, 2019

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Orecchini in oro bianco, micro mosaico, diamanti

Flowers and colored feathers composed of gold and precious stones with micro mosaics presented by Sicis in Singapore ♦ ︎

Sicis micro mosaics get to JeweLuxe Singapore (from October 16th). The event dedicated to the design of jewelery and watches also hosts the novelties of the Italian company from Ravenna, which has renewed the technique of micro mosaic: each jewel is composed of gold, precious stones and thousands of microscopic crystal pieces specially created and glued one to one. A job that often requires hundreds of hours of application.

The design of each model was created to improve the incredible complexity of this process brought to new splendor by Sicis jewels through a demanding path of study and research. Each object is unrepeatable, since the micro-splinters are forged and segmented with a completely manual process and subsequently laid one by one by skilled micro-mosaic artists. In Singapore, Sicis offers new pieces of floral lines, but also colored feathers, presented in recent months, in a game of diamonds and gold, cabochon rubies. They are jewels, but also small works of art that make better when they are seen live.

Anello in micro mosaico con ametiste e diamanti

Anello in micro mosaico con rubino cabochon

Sicis Jewels, the micro mosaics show

Published on January 17, 2019

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The micro mosaics of Sicis Jewels: small Venetian glass tesserae, together with gold and precious stones ♦ ︎

At VicenzaOro January there is also Sicis Jewels, a Ravenna company specialized in micromosaic technique. The tiny Venetian glass tesserae that make up figures and a kind of pavé, according to an ancient type of workmanship, decided to participate in the jewelery fair to present the latest collections.

The micro mosaic tiles are used by Sicis Jewels along with precious stones and gold.

In addition to unique pieces of fine jewelry, the Maison offers entire collections, always handmade with endless combinations of colors and shades. The Venetian glass yarns are cut into thousands of pieces that are laid one by one. In particular at Vicenza Oro are bracelets, earrings, necklaces and rings. The micro mosaics in these jewels serve to color stars, flowers, moon, animals, along with stones like tourmaline or sapphires. Lavinia Andorno

A leopard by Sicis

Published on February 26, 2017

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A leopard becomes necklace: it has been created by Sicis with the micro mosaic technique, diamonds and sapphires.
Animals at Sicis home. The company from Ravenna is specializes in the mosaics and micro mosaics, periodically creates unique pieces: jewelry that require months of work and provide an idea of what it can offer this ancient technique, reinterpreted in an original way for jewelry. The latest addition to precious little zoo is Damisa, leopard of Tanzania. The cat turned into a necklace, has a cloak with the features stains made micro mosaic of diamonds and sapphires. The leg supports a special stone: an imperial topaz yellow color, like the eye of the leopard. The tail becomes a round neck, this completely covered with diamonds and yellow and orange sapphires. Giulia Netrese

Sicis on the fly

Published on September 18, 2016

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Two butterflies with garnet, agate and diamonds are flying from Sicis atelier.
About Sicis we talked about many times: it is a unique brand in the jewelry world. Not only for the design of its proposals, but also for the technique with which he made the jewels: the ancient, complex, virtuous art of micro mosaic. Many tiny tesserae that form shapes and unusual forms. As in the case of these two pieces: the butterflies that hover in the air. They are made of 18 carat white gold, and wings are decorated with diamonds and micro mosaic in shades of green or purple. Every detail must be closely observed, as the recessed antennas diamond. The two butterflies are connected to wires that terminate with small diamonds. They are available in two versions: with threads in red violet garnet and amethyst or agate. The frame of butterflies is in 18 carat white gold.

Collana Butterfly con diamanti e granati