In between summer and winter (at least in the name) Summer Snow, the new collection by Alice Cicolini, is however the pretty bright imaginable. There is the vermeil metal, silver 18-carat gold-plated, shapede in intricate lines that look like vines, and instead of the leaves, there are transparent daisies with a double corolla in rose quartz and cloudy rose quartz, green amethyst and rock crystal. Pastel colors taken from Monet’s paintings, are livened up by bright pistils in topaz, tourmalines, sapphires, morganites and chalcedony briolette cut, the inspiration of the disc like a pleated corolla came out from the basis of the Indian temples pillars, and the overall design with cascading flowers along the body is the same of Japanese kimonos. In short, there is a geographical mix and match in these jewelry whose name evokes the flurry of pollen of Moscow poplars during this season, while the stones were handcarved by Jaipur based artisans in India, the same people who for years collaborated with the British designer. Since, in 2007, she saw a jewelry box belonged to a Maharani (name for the wife of Maharaja) and decided to start creating jewelry. Here the pictures of the collection. Matilde de Bounvilles
