BUCCELLATI – HAUTE COUTURE COLLECTION 2021
Buccellati gets ready for the virtual catwalks of 2021 by presenting new amazing creations that highlight the brand’s savoir-faire and its century-old goldsmithing traditions.
BBuccellati is a renowned high-end jewellery brand, admired for its craftsmanship and the uniqueness of its creations. Distinctive in the use of rare stones with extraordinary colours, mixed with white and yellow gold, all nicely carved like laces. Today, the Buccellati jewels stand out for their design and for the techniques used to create them, such as the hand-engraving technique, dating back to the ancient goldsmith traditions of the Italian “bottega” during the Renaissance times.
The shapes of the collections are all inspired by the historical archive drawings as well as the very first creations of the founder, Mario Buccellati.
Like a pioneer in preserving the most refined techniques, Buccellati’s offering for this year is based on honeycomb
and openwork patterns, still hand-crafted today as in 1919, when the Maison was founded in Milan.
Andrea Buccellati, Creative Director at Buccellati, is imposing his elegant taste and vision to jewels, culminating in the “Polvere di Luna” (Moon powder) set, composed of a super-light necklace with matching cocktail
The “Ortensia” bracelet recalls the colour and gentleness of the hydrangea, it being so imperfectly spherical and so delicately coloured, while the “Honey-heart” bracelet proposes a sun-like motif centring a delicate and light honeycomb motif.
Cocktail rings are among the most sought-after Buccellati jewels. The ones conceived for the Haute Couture 2021 are innovative and impressive. The “Passione” cocktail ring is dominated by a large faceted tourmaline, sparkling with all its beauty contoured by small white pendant earrings. While the flexible bracelet with the same design stands out as a jewel apart, a unique and precious work of art, the result of hours and hours of manual drilling and hand-engraving.
Surely one of the most iconic piece of jewellery from the brand, theBuccellati cuff bracelets enchant with their innovative designs. gold leaves set with diamonds. The “Monte Bianco” ring pushes its round pearl up like a mountaintop featuring a geometric and modern decoration all around the bezel and along the stem.
TLN Qatar editor’s picks are the “Aubade” cocktail earrings which evokes the sweetness of a morning love song: an openwork, refined and elegant background enlightened by rubies, while the “Foglie Imperiali” earrings remind us of those important laurel crowns the kings and queens wore in their institutional paintings. Alas, royalty in the 21st century.