Jewels and stones extracted from distant mines are a classic combination. But many forget that Italy has a loved and valued stone in the world: the marble. So why not use this stone to make jewelery? It could be only a designer born in Carrara, Valeria Eva Rossi, thinking about it. Grew up in the foothills of the Apuan Alps, where are the quarries of marble used by Michelangelo and Bernini, she graduated in Architecture in Florence. He lived several years in France, but the nostalgia of white rocks brought her back to Italy with one of his creatures: Pietraquadra stone jewels. Jewels made to measure for the marble, also made with the help of unusual materials, such as passementerie, “while the metal becomes the extension of the stone itself, in a balancing act always perfect,” he says. “I wanted a color choice that had a strong evocative and communicative power, and so I only chose marbles Whites and Blacks: the combination of the two tones evokes the double essence of things and the dualism inherent in man. As in Eastern philosophy Yin and Yang, in Western culture, black and white represent the duality of all things”. Expert craftsmen with different specialties are working the raw material, that goes well with the silver and the fabric of the oldest trimmings factory in Europe, which is based in Turin.
