Bakelite… a love! There is no vintage jewelry lover of respect who doesn’t have one piece or more in bakelite. It’s common to find bracelets, brooches and necklaces if you usually hang out at ancient dealers or street markets. It was discovered by an American chemical from Belgium, Dot. Baekeland,at the beginning of the last […]
Happy holidays and wishing you a happy new year. Christmas Tree Pendant By LA RIVOLUZIONE DEI CANARINI Private Collection
Do you like long necklaces? Very, very long necklace? I do, very much, and this time I could have exaggerated. Someone may say I did, but I don’t think so. At the beginning of the last century this kind of ornament was very common, especially the one made with pearls. Do you remember “The Great […]
In the last few days I swipe through Instagram and, like most of us, I have been overwhelmed by the news from Afghanistan. We are all frightened by the idea of being treated as those women are in that country. Anxiety, fear and sadness are in my thoughts and in my heart. It was difficult […]
This time I would like to show you a piece of my family history. This stone was set on a ring my granny used to wear. I was fascinated by its dimensions, colour, and clearness. She always said it would be mine someday. Time has passed and I have forgotten this ring in a drawer. […]
Today I present you this ring with its earrings just perfect for this season. Summer is an explosion of colours, perfumes and tastes. Nature gives us the best of herself with juicy fruits. The sapphire with its cushion cat is a sip of a sweet peachy drink. But the gem that I would like to […]
Sometimes it isn’t the inspiration that guides you in the creation of a piece of jewellery. It isn’t a place, a style, or a culture. Sometimes it is just the gem’s shape that dictates the lines of a piece. Following the lines of these stones, you can intersect them with the others and the earrings […]
The summer is getting closer and we are all checking what we have in our wardrobes. I do the same with jewels. There are accessoires suited for winter and certainly, there are jewels suited for summer. I chose them for materials (silver, corals), colours (light blue, yellow, orange and light green), and subjects like fish, […]
It happens that you have a friend and that this friend is an antique dealer. Last Saturday, we were admiring the new arrivals in his shop. Bracelets, rings and earrings, all beautiful and all from the 60s and 70s. While we were chatting (I love chatting like that), it came up that he has an […]
When I was a kid I used to browse through my mom’s glossy fashion magazines. She used to buy a considerable amount of them and she used to keep the ones with articles about jewels or famous jewellers. Everywhere you could find magazines like that and I, getting through those pages, was fascinated by the […]
