Pianegonda jewels from the Clipea collection: silver, ruthenium, zircons and a shape that recalls the scales of a reptile ♦ ︎
The clipeus in Latin was the word that indicated a large round and hollow shield. With time, then, the term is passed to indicate a portrait in a round space. What does this have to do with the name of the Pianegonda collection called Clipea? Nothing, perhaps. Although the rounded forms of silver jewelry, or silver blackened by a process of galvanic and ruthenium, sometimes enriched by a pavé of gray cubic zirconia, may have a link with the original meaning of the Latin word.
But the jewels of the Clipea collection are perhaps closer to the shield of a crocodile, that is, to its skin-armor.
Silver, in fact, is often combined as in plaques reminiscent of an animal’s scales. Even the shape of the individual pieces has an effect similar to that which covers reptiles. These jewels of Pianegonda, brand of the Bros Manifatture group, are addressed to an audience that loves a refined design, but offer very moderate prices: a ring with cubic zirconia costs 144 euros, without cubicles 124 euros, while for the silver necklace and galvanic ruthenium rises to 748 euros. Alessia Mongrando
