The new collection of Cora Sheibani is called Eyes and it is a pleasure to watch it ♦ ︎
When she was four, Cora Sheibani lets you know that she was painting in a garage with Jean-Michel Basquiat. On his website he also reports a flattering judgment of the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass: «When Cora Sheibani decided to design jewelry, she did not opt for pounds of gold, volumes, complications, golden baroque with the addition of more or less precious or poor stones diamond surfaces to pursue the unattainable mythology of luxury “. Art and design: the bread that Cora has eaten since birth. She is the daughter of the Zurich art dealer Bruno Bischofberger and his wife Christina (known to all as Yoyo). The house, in addition to Basquiat, was frequented by artists of all kinds, starting with Andy Warhol. When she turned eight, just to understand, she chose for her bedroom a colorful chair of the Memphis Group, the postmodern design collective of Milan founded in 1981 by Sottsass, who was a friend of the family.
All this creative air that she breathed during her growth, Cora transferred it to her work as a jewelry designer. After studying art history in Florence and New York, she moved to London in 2001 and moved to London where married Kaveh Sheibani, a financier. She meet customers by appointment only. His latest collection is called Eyes and summarizes well the spirit of his extreme design, no frills but at the same time rich. The jewels have a rather large size, they are in gold with central stones like tanzanite, garnet, spessartite, pink rubellite, brown zircons. The jewels, in fact, resemble large eyes, but also primitive masks. Prices: from 5,000 to 40,000 pounds for bespoke ones. Giulia Netrese