Canadian, with a degree in Architecture, numerous experiences in the construction and design sectors, Nathalie Jean moved to Milan about thirty years ago and opened a boutique in the city center. Since 1998, her jewelry collections have been presented and sold at Dieci Corso Como in Milan and Seoul, Nilufar gallery in Milan, Donna Karan…
Sharra Pagano, over half a century of one of the historical Italian jewelery brands and still capable of innovating ♦ Fashion & Jewelry. Or, more correctly, Fashion & Bijoux: the Sharra Pagano brand is associated with the roaring years of Italian fashion, when labels such as Armani, Moschino, Versace were imposed. In 1969 Lino Raggio…
In Milan, a designer who follows the popular tradition of ex votos and interprets it in a refined way: Laurent Gandini ♦ The popular tradition, like that of ex-votos (precious objects that are found in Catholic churches for a grace received from some saint) is transformed into jewels: Laurent Gandini is a designer who loves…
Jewels for the mind and the eyes. Those on display for two days at the ESH Gallery in Milan (via Forcella 7, on 14 and 15 July, free admission) are the result of the ideas of the graduates from IED Milan. The exhibition is titled Very very precious and includes nine collections for nine research…
Homi Fashion & Jewels Exhibition, an event dedicated to bijoux, jewels and fashion accessories, is back in September: it will be held from 16 to 19 September in Fieramilano (Rho). In addition to the Italians, French brands and Greek designers are expected. The date is also useful for the presentation of the new collections for…
Misani, a jewelry brand born in 1965 in Milan, uses a bit of everything: gold, pearls, leather, precious stones, amber, jade. The craftsmanship is testified, for example, by the use of hand-crumpled gold on the stones of the Vincoli collection and the historic boules. The jewels present the possible metalworkings: shiny, opaque, hammered gold, which…
A special look at the jewels of the milan designer Netali Nissim ♦ ︎ The Eye of Providence, the evil eye, the divine eye … But how many times the pupils became symbols of something? Nothing strange, therefore, that the eye is also one of the most used icons in jewelry. For those who are…
A giant diamond, but made of paper. In Milan, the capital of design for a week on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, from 7 to 12 June you can also see the large paper diamond sculpture by Daniele Papuli, exhibited in front of the Tiffany & Co. store in Piazza Duomo.…
The positive moment for the jewelry market, in particular for auction sales, is confirmed by the event at the end of May organized by Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, a Milanese company that sold for 1.2 million euro of a 16.44-carat teardrop diamond that sets a new record for the jewelry department in the sector. Thanks…
The Design Week returns to Milan with the Salone del Mobile. And in the program, avant-garde jewels return to the Rossini Gallery, which hosts the Contemporary Jewelery exhibition. From 4 to 25 June in collaboration with the curators Marina Chiocchetta and Sonia Patrizia Catena, the gallery presents a selection of contemporary jewelry, unique and versatile…
The name of a flower for a small Maison that continues to bloom: Agapanthus ♦ There are so many jewelers who are inspired by flowers for their collections. There is only one, instead, who chooses the name of a flower for its own brand. It is Agapanthus, a small jewel brand born in 2003 at the…
The Tiffany Diamond, 128.54 carat fancy yellow, travels the world as a relic symbol of the high jewelery tradition of Tiffany & Co. The stone has also arrived in Italy, in Milan, for the Yellow Is the New Blue event, as a dessert for the presentation of the high jewelery collection, the famous Blue Book.…
Jewelery auction at Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Milan (May 26-27). The catalog presents a selection of fine jewelery, including a 16.44-carat pear-cut diamond, unique in terms of purity and color estimated at 700,000. -1,200,000 euros mounted on a ring and accompanied by other baguette-cut diamonds. Among the lots on sale there are also diamonds enhanced…
Faraone organizes two sales sessions in Milan dedicated to jewels and other luxury items, such as bags and objects for the home. In fact, luxury is also interpreted as a safe haven in difficult times, such as the ones we are going through. And jewels are in all respects part of this category, even more…
Silver rock and rebellious soul of Ell, a small Maison in Milan ♦ ︎ Two brothers, one goal: to chisel silver to make it an original jewel. With a bit of rock music. Lorenzo and Luca Cavolini, who were joined by two other brothers, Camilla and Gian Luca Clivio, gave life to Ell, a small…
Bolaffi jewelry auction on April 13 and 14 in Milan: the first day will take place live, while the second will continue online. The catalog is quite vast: it includes over 500 lots selected by private clients, with jewels signed by international Maison. Among the jewels there is a collection signed by Buccellati as well…
Italian jewels at auction in Milan. This time it is Cambi Casa d’Aste to present a sale focused on Contemporary Jewelery. The beater’s hammer will drop on 195 lots on Thursday 24 March (the auction will take place at the Milan office, in via San Marco 22). The collection proposed in the catalog was created…
The bijoux fair in Milan is back with some new exhibitors. At Homi Fashion & Jewels Exhibition (11 to 14 March at fieramilano in Rho) there will be 376 brands from the world of bijoux and accessories: 37% from abroad, in particular from Greece, Spain, Turkey, France, India. Among the brands there will be Sharra…
As announced in recent months, the Damiani group continues the policy of opening new stores in Italy and abroad. It is now the turn of a new Rocca boutique at Milan’s Linate airport, the city’s second airport, which has recently been renovated. The store has the jewels of the group’s brands (Damiani, Salvini, Calderoni and…
La Dolce Vita: over time, the title of a Federico Fellini film has become the symbol of an era, the Italian postwar period, in which the economic boom was accompanied by a relaxed lifestyle, at least in Rome. This is no longer the case, but the idea that Italy is a place of soft pleasures…
