The bright masterpiece by Alessio Boschi

Amazing and magnificent: we were lucky enough to take a close look at Alessio Boschi‘s creations. They are so full of unusual details as to arouse to the wow effect invariably. It’s because  there is a long preparation of the draft behind, it’s because for his skill to take traditional techniques loan or new technologies and apply them, like a true virtuoso of goldsmith, in the processing of jewelry, or it’s because the artistic streak expresses itself in a very personal design. No coincidence Alessio Boschi has been listed as the most creative of Baselworld 2016. See, for example, this necklace inspired by the Cedar of Naturalia collection, where every element, from bark to leaves, to cones with closed and open bars, alone could represent a world unto itself. The thin needles, namely the leaves which in nature are individual or grouped in various arrangements on the same branch, are raw emerald crystals, slightly polished to preserved the color hue, and cut at the end to give a tip shape.

A simple task? The exact opposite. In fact, the stones come from Afghanistan mines, and therefore are very difficult to find especially in large quantities with the same characteristics, in this case are 280 gems of 100 carats. There is, then, the working: these thin crystals are fitted with a glue, a vitrified resin under the Uv lights heat, on tiny silver cylinders plated with a green film of the same color of emeralds, made especially for this necklace, and set over a spring to allow the gem to swing with your body movements. A similar en trembling set is for yellow and brown diamonds, with a hole in the bottom and strewn here and there among the green to represent the new small pine cones just blossomed. That original and precious handiwork in itself projected the necklace in fine jewelery, but Boschi’s imagination and skill are limitless.

So, even the trunk, namely the structure of the necklace, is not any piece of gold. Realized according to the production technique of Japanese samurai swords, Makumé Gane, it cost six months of work to get the most similar to the veins real model. 19 well plates in yellow gold, white, 18-carat pink, silver and palladium, whose wet by acid molecules are inserted between various metal layers and form microcompressi tunnels to draw streaks with different shades, while micro yellow diamonds, brown and white give a sense of relief bark. And yet other small yellow and brown diamonds, set upside en tremblant pinecone with woody bars opened like the petals of a flower, that reproduce the real world shades with a sheen similar to that one given to diamonds with a rose cut.

Finally, two pine cones that immediately catches the attention not only for their size. These are two rare spessartites, the mandarin garne in the most beautiful variety, one named Fanta orange, chosen for its hue that enhances the green emerald without being predominant. The scales are hand engraved to highlight the three-dimensionality of conifer and maintain the transparency of stones of over 70 carats overall, which have a Led inside, installed with the advice of the Bangkok’s University of Technology. But these are blinking lights because the necklace, the result of 14 months of work, throbs like the nature which represents. Just look at it worn by Valeria Boschi, Alessio’s sister, to perceive it. Monica Battistoni