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Ninotchka’s discreet charm

Published on June 14, 2019

Anello di nefrite e ametista. Photo: Charles Thompson

The mysterious, exclusive, surprising jewels of the Maison Ninotchka. From Russia with love ♦ ︎

They are rather mysterious. The founders of the Maison Ninotchka work in Moscow for an audience of passionate collectors. Yevgeny Glagolev and Timur Ibragimov, founders and designers, work for those who do not want a simple jewel, but a small work of art. Unique pieces are able to excite and also to intrigue. Unlike other colleagues in jewelry, they avoid advertising, clamor and pomp. Yet the jewels they make are precious and surprising.

There is little information about them: both love historical jewels, so much so that they have used some pieces of the past to make them up to date in a modern way. They also love enhancing the gems found in the mines of great Russia, such as the Siberian amethysts, the Ural demantoids, the Popigai’s mine diamonds in eastern Siberia, where the largest diamond field on Earth is located: a huge large hole 100 kilometers, created by an asteroid precipitated 35 million years ago. But this is irrelevant to their refined work, which should be appreciated for the next 35 million years.

By the way: the name Ninotchka was chosen in honor of the 1939 film by director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo.

Suite per Maria Antonietta: la collana con rubini simboleggia le gocce di sangue per la decapitazione. A destra, gli orecchini a forma di ghigliottina

Orecchini a forma di edera con smeraldi colombiani, diamante fancy yellow e diamanti

Lumache by Ninotchka. Photo: Charles Thompson

Spilla per bracciale di zaffiri e diamanti. Photo: Charles Thompson

Yevgeny Glagolev e Timur Ibragimov. Photo: Charles Thompson

The Russian rhapsody by Liza Belotserkovskaya

Published on March 19, 2019

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Anello in oro annerito, diamanti e tormalina

The fantasy of the far north in the collections of Liza Belotserkovskaya Jewelery, from Moscow to New York ♦

What happens in the jewelry box of Russia and neighbourhood? The former empire of the czars and the former Soviet Union is a huge continent with many human and material resources. In addition, Russia has a high tradition in the field of jewelry. For example, the art of creating jewelry is represented by Liza Belotserkovskaya Jewellery. The brand, founded in 2010, has offices in Moscow and Vilnius (Lithuania), and shops in the countries of the former USSR, beginning with Moscow, but also in New York.

The activity is twofold: Liza Belotserkovskaya Jewellery presents its collection, but can also work on order of a customer. The jewelry can be made in silver, white gold or black gold with various stones (emerald, garnet, diamond, sapphire, aquamarine, moonstone, opal). The first collection, called Mystery forest, was presented in 2013. The brand is inspired by the charm of the Great North, between Gothic and mystery. The large rings with aquamarines are inspirated at deep lakes, the encrusted with sapphires pendants are a tribute to the stars, the earrings to the mysteries of the elves, the runes to the ancient Celts, and so on. It would certainly also appreciated by Snow White. About fables: Liza Belotserkovskaya is the name of the daughter of the founder of the brand, Marina Belotserkovskaya: she is a source of inspiration, even for the fantasy style, for the designer.

Orecchini in oro annerito con topazi London, tormaline e diamanti

Anello Transformer in oro annerito con tormalina e diamanti

Anello in oro annerito con granato e diamanti

Orecchini chanderlier in oro brunito e granati

Orecchini pendenti in oro brunito e granati

Orecchini pendenti in oro brunito e smeraldi

Fabergé in exhibition

Published on December 12, 2018

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Fabergé style in a large exhibition near Moscow. Here are the preview images ♦ ︎

There are excellent jewelers. There are also great jewelers. A step above there are the jewelers who made history. And then there is Fabergé. Mythical, almost mysterious, with a contested legacy that has come to this day. The museum and exhibition center La Nuova Gerusalemme of Istra (near Moscow) dedicates a great exhibition to this tutelary jeweler: The Fabergé style. Timeless excellence.

The exhibition will present over 400 pieces, many of which have never been exposed to the public.

To the lucky ones who can visit the exhibition are proposed the works of the Fabergé jewelry house from the collections of Russian and foreign museums: the Fabergé Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany), the State Hermitage Museum (Russia, St. Petersburg) and others.

The exhibition not only includes individual objects, but also tells the story of the development of the Casa Di Fabergé, with rare documents that mark the important phases in the history of the brand.

says the exhibition’s curator, professor, founder of the first private museum in Russia (The National Museum of Russia) and the Fabergé Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany), Alexander Ivanov. There are also crystal utensils, gifts and furnishing products. Furthermore, a comparison of the work of master goldsmiths from various branches of the company in Saint Petersburg and Moscow is presented. And there are the famous imperial easter eggs, the objects from the study of His Imperial Majesty, the accessories of the members of the imperial family.

Spilla con zaffiro di Peter Carl Fabergé

Among the main exhibits there is the imperial Easter egg of Karelian birch (1917), the last Easter egg, produced and given to the imperial family by the Fabergé company; the Easter imperial egg “The constellation of zarevic Aleksej” (1917), intended as a gift to the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna for Easter 1917; the “Farfalla” brooch (1896), donated by Emperor Nicholas II to the actress M. N. Ermolova.
Fabergé style. Timeless excellence
December 15, 2018 – March 24, 2019
“La Nuova Gerusalemme” Museum and Exhibition Center,
Istra (60 km from Moscow), Russia

Uovo di Pasqua del 1904, parte superiore

Imperial Easter Egg, Tsesarevich Constellation

The heart of Bulgari in Moscow

Published on September 11, 2018

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Sotuar Bulgari in oro, grande smeraldo, rubini, diamanti, 1970. Collezione Heritage Bulgari

Bulgari’s historical jewels in a major exhibition organized in the heart of the Kremlin ♦ ︎

The jewels return to the Kremlin. But they are not those of the tsars. For the first time in Russia, the Moscow Museums host a retrospective exhibition featuring Bulgari’s high-end works. The exhibition was curated by Lucia Boscaini, Brand and Heritage Curator of the Maison.

On show (7 September 2018-13 January 2019) there are over 400 unique high-end pieces from the Bulgari Heritage Collection, as well as those from private collections all over the world.

Curiously, one of the main themes of the exhibition is the reflection of the ideas of femininity in the works of Bulgari. Perhaps the women who wore Bulgari are more aware of their gender? Who knows. The theme, the organizers explain, is explored through the collection created by the jewelry house in several decades of the last century, when the destruction of stereotypes about the traditional role of women in society was reflected in jewelry and other arts.
With roots in the nineteenth century, when it was founded by Sotirio Bulgari, since 1920 the Roman maison has created exclusive jewels and watches in the art deco style and started using large round diamonds. In the following decades, the style of jewelry changed with the lifestyle of women. But it is in the fifties and sixties that the great jewels of Bulgari have become an international myth, thanks to the use of large colored stones.

The brand’s history is closely linked to legendary women like Anna Magnani, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Gina Lollobrigida, Monica Vitti and Sophia Loren.

But the myth is also to collections of wristwatches such as those of the Serpenti line, developed by Bulgari since the mid-forties. to the tubogas technique embellished with enamels, stones, opaque and polished gold, using Greek coins, Roman coins and shutters of colossal historical value. the exhibited pieces range from the late nineteenth century until the nineties. Federico Graglia

Collana in oro con perle, diamanti, zaffiri, rubini

Bulgari, bracciale orologio Serpenti in oro, platino, rubini e diamanti

La collana indossata da Elizabeth Taylor, ora esposta alla retrospettiva Bulgari a Mosca, presenta 16 smeraldi colombiani ottagonali a gradini, ciascuno circondato da diamanti, con un pendente con smeraldo 23,44 carati che era stato una spilla