They return five jewels of couple Fulco di Verdura-Salvador Dalí, designed in 1941.
Fulco Santostefano of Cerda, Duke of Verdura is again with Salvador Domenec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, better known as Salvador Dali. The brand Verdura, in fact, decided to repeat the result of work between the Sicilian nobleman jeweler and the Spanish painter in 1941. That year, the imaginative Fulco di Verdura designed with the Messenger of surrealism, jewels that included small painted miniatures. The jewels were part, 75 years ago, of a Dali-Miro exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. And to commemorate the anniversary of the collaboration, Vegetable introduces now Out of This World, a collection inspired by the five original jewels. Between the jeweler and the painter there was immediately entente. They both loved the mythology and, in fact, the five pieces include the brooch Medusa, Apollo and Daphne, but also the San Sebastian and the Fallen Angel. The jewelry also resound themes, symbols and icons that are present in the works of Salvador Dali. For example, two earrings similar to a metaphysical object located in a work of the painter, or the snakes that have the same style as those portrayed in the surrealist paintings. Rudy Serra
