Skate rings for Agnes B
I designed and made a collection of rings made of resin and recycled skateboard decks, as you can see in the pictures, that are distributed in Agnes B’s shops in Europe, Japan and the USA.
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“Growth and Evolution” exhibition in China
Our jewels have been selected between 450 artist to take part to “Growth and Evolution 2020”, international contemporary jewelry exhibition in China.The exhibition will be traveling around the country. The first event will be at Royal Venus Hotel, in Kunming from February the 14th to the 1st of March 2020. These are the selected pieces.
Our help for reforestation in Haiti
We plant trees with an international organization for reforestation. We have chosen Haiti at the moment for our donations. Healthy forests give so much back to us: they clean our air and water, support health and biodiversity, stabilize our climate, but also represent an opportunity to create better living conditions for local populations. Our saplings are getting ready to be planted, meanwhile here are some interesting facts about forests in Haiti. Planting Season December, June and July are the best Read More
We will be at Joya barcelona 2019
We have been selected to take part to Joya 2019.
Joya is a contemporary jewelry exhibition in Barcelona but it is well known all around the world and is one of the most important within the field of contemporary jewelry.
We are going to Collectiva meeting in Porto
Collectiva Meeting is an international exhibition in Porto, Portugal, an event that brings together national and international artists, by organizing an exhibition/sale event to promote new talents and innovative works in contemporary jewellery.
Our jewels help planting trees
We have chosen also to contribute to reforestation around the world, collaborating with OneTreePlanted, a non-profit organization that plants trees in areas where forests has been damaged and follows their growth.
Our collaboration is simple: for each product that you buy on our website or in shops we donate 1 dollar for reforestation.
Sustainable label, at Maison et Objet Paris 2019
This September we will be at Maison et Objet, in Paris, one of the most important fair for design and lifestyle in Europe and worldwide. in the Sustainable itinerary.
We also have got the Sustainability lable, together with other 115 other companies in all the exhibition.
Autor Fair Bucarest 2019
We have been really happy to take part this year to Autor 2019, Contemporary Jewellery fair in Bucarest, together with really professional jewellery designers from all around the world. Between a lot of of different styles, materials and designs, we have applied with our 3500 collection, made of ancient oak wood and inspired by the trees. On Autor website you can read the collection’s concept and the interview to Simone. We have loved Bucarest and we’ve met new friends and Read More
Jewellery with 3500-year-old wood
This is a story about plains, along the meanders of Po river. A new adventure for us too. Always dealing with wood, in cabinet making, sculpture and artistic restoration, I obviously knew bog oak. It is called a semi-fossil wood: not yet fossil, but on the way to become it.It is well known for pipes making, it is also used for luxury furniture and furnishings.While participating in international fairs, we recently met a company that sells bog oak, at staggering Read More
A sustainable wood supply chain
We cover so many different areas and a lots of them are interesting also for sustainable and circular economy, such as our research for ecological materials, wood and resins. We usually don’t buy commercial wood, on the contrary we often select wild wood essences around the place we live, or thanks to the help of gardeners and farmers around Italy.For exotic essences, we had bought and carefully recycled little wood stocks from craftsmen that were closing their business. Our wood Read More
Love Jewels, contemporary jewellery exhibition
I am happy to be one of the artists chosen for the exhibition organized by Smitten Collective at Multiple, a contemporary jewellery gallery in Hasselt, Belgium.The exhibition’s theme is LOVE in all its expressions. It is open until September the 1st 2018.Spread the love! My “Hearts” collection, handmade resin pendants, see on my e-shop. Photo credits: Smitten Collective
GRAFF + SK8 = MAGIC
A new project, in collaboration with Susan Rich, artist from Venice Beac, California, just awarded at GioielloDentro Award 2018. A jewel made of recycled skateboard wood (from Zeroskateboard) and Susan’s “Venice Graffstone”, street art layers, real “graffiti precious stones”.
Back to green! Ethical fashion in Gran Canaria
Our eco-jewels in the center of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, at Back to green. Between the best shops in town you will find a cozy space for ethical fashion.
An adventure as digital nomads
From the backstage. We are living for some months in Gran Canaria, working as “digital nomads” on the web and e-commerce and promoting our contemporary jewelry in Canary Islands. Here we tell you a bit of our new life.
Forest for Fashion, Perugia 2017
Last week we have take part at Forest for Fashion, in the beautiful town of Perugia. The main event was a catwalk with dresses, accessories and videos made by the students of Istituto Italiano Design.
Cebra gallery’s exhibition, Düsseldorf
We had the pleasure to participate at Cebra gallery’s birhtday in Düsseldorf. The contemporary jewelry gallery was founded thirty years ago by Anemone Tontsch. We had the pleasure to show our wood pendant Inlay and wood bangle Faun.
“Nothing is forever”
“Nothing is forever” communicates best our jewels because we make them thinking about men and women who are unprejudiced, that is to say free of prejudices, about look or life choices.
Men and women that follow their intuition, their taste and that look for harmony with their intimate, true, nature.
Mostra The Brooch a Vicenza Oro
We start the year with a news, the brooch “Inlay”, presented in preview for the collective exhibition The Brooch, curated by Francesca Canapa of GioielloDentro, at Palakiss in Vicenza, from January the 20 to the 25 during VicenzaOro.
Our Wooden Jewelry goes to University
The 10th of November from 13.00 to 17.00 we are invided at L.UN.A., LiberaUniversità delle Arti, Piazza San Martino 4F , Bologna. L.U.N.A. is a private university: “it is the will to grow creative intelligence in design, fashion design and communication”. Next to the classrom in via Marsala 25/a, Bologna, you can find also L.U.N.A. Lab Store: the place, opened from 2012, hosts a shop, a place for exhibitions and a prototype lab opened to public. At Lab Store you can find design, eco-design and Read More
“Wood and the City” per ART CITY White Night
Siamo lieti di invitarvi a una serata davvero speciale! Durante ART CITY White Night, la notte bianca di Arte Fiera a Bologna, il sotterraneo di Borgo22 si trasforma in una casa d’artista, creata per l’occasione grazie all’allestimento a cura di Annalisa Tre. A metà tra mostra e installazione, dal cuore domestico, per farvi scoprire le mie ultime creazioni. Tante novità, gioielli contemporanei ma anche – neanche a dirlo! – home decor. Borgo 22 è a Bologna, in via Borgo di San Read More
Fashion and design a Dynamo
Lo scorso weekend abbiamo partecipato all’esposizione di design e autoproduzioni a Dynamo, la velostazione di Bologna. Tra i vari eventi, allo scoccare della mezzanotte la sfilata de Le Giraffe, di Valeria Sacenti: anche Ooak, la collezione che abbiamo realizzato in collaborazione con la stilista Meike Everaarts, ha sfilato insieme ai modelli de Le Giraffe. Past weekend we take part to handmade and design exhibition at Dynamo, bike station in Bologna. Between others events, at midnight a fashion show took place, by Le Giraffe, di Valeria Sacenti: Ooak, Read More
“Faun” bangle wins international jewelry award
“Faun” bangle wins international jewelry award “Gioiellodentro Design 20.15”. With “Reskate” pendant it takes part at art jewels exhibition at Abate Zanetti glass school in Murano, Venice. Open until 2nd Ocotber. Il bracciale “Faun” si è aggiudicato uno dei premi del concorso internazionale Gioiellodentro Design 20.15. Insieme al collier “Reskate” è esposto alla mostra presso la scuola del vetro Abate Zanetti, nella splendida cornice di Murano, Venezia. La mostra sarà aperta fino al 2 ottobre.
Made in Bologna – guida al design indipendente
Siamo lieti di annunciare l’uscita in libreria di Made in Bologna, un progetto di Silvia Santachiara, Silvia Gaiani e Alessandro Boselli, edito da Giraldi Editore. Made in Bologna è la prima guida per città che raccoglie i più innovativi designer/makers emiliani e accompagna il lettore in un viaggio alla scoperta di negozi, showroom, laboratori in cui trovare le loro creazioni. Siamo felici di essere una delle cinquantanove realtà raccontate nel libro, parte del fermento creativo e del design indipendente sul territorio bolognese. Read More
“Wooden memories” event photos
Alcune foto della presentazione della linea “Ooak” nell’ambito di Art City White Night Bologna, presso Art Hotel Orologio. Some pictures of “Ooak” collection presentation during Art City White Night Bologna, at Art Hotel Orologio.
Wooden Memories – Art City White Night
Saturday 24th January 2015, 17.00 – 22.00, Bologna – during Art City White Night @Art Hotel Orologio. Exhibition/tableau vivant with our jewels and wood accessories. Like a picture, or better a daguerreotype, faded and ruined by time, ethereal and bohemienne, to create a dandy British atmospheres and to let guests feel curious and be amazed, like a into a daydream. A special occasion to present “Ooak”, a project made in collaboration with Meike Everaarts, Dutch fashion designer and maker. Ooak: “One Of A Kind”, like our unique Read More
“Into the wood” workshop
8 workshop per l’evento veronese sul design “Do you speak Made in Italy?” Insieme a Ferdi Giardini, Giovanni Casellato, Manuela Bedeschi, Sotirios Papadopoulos, Mimmo Demattia e Annalisa Mirizzi di NALJ Jewels, Fabio Capanni con Velux Italia prenderemo parte alla mostra-workshop Do you speak Made in Italy?, dedicata al Fare Design. L’evento si svolgerà i prossimi 24 e 25 settembre nel Loggiato e nella sala Buvette del Palazzo della Gran Guardia di Verona, in occasione delle manifestazioni Marmomacc, Abitare il Tempo e Promenade Verona che coinvolgono la Read More
Moda etica e ecosostenibile
Domani 24 aprile è il Fashion Revolution Day, il 24 aprile dell’anno scorso infatti 1133 persone persero la vita nel crollo di un complesso produttivo a Dhaka, in Bangladesh.
Ne approfittiamo per parlare di moda etica ed ecosostenibile. Ecofashion.
Per un nuovo tempo
Vogliamo scrivere su questo blog anche lanciando stimoli e condividendo idee. L’ispirazione questa volta è arrivata con un pensiero di William Morris, tra i fondatori di Art and Crafts, un movimento che nell’Inghilterra dell’Ottocento si confrontava con l’industrializzazione dirompente. Un movimento artistico e intellettuale che metteva però al centro i saperi artigianali. Leggiamo da Wikipedia alcune riflessioni di Art and Crafts: considera l’artigianato come espressione del lavoro dell’uomo e dei suoi bisogni, ma soprattutto come valore durevole nel tempo e tende a Read More
Wooding time – le foto della serata
Ecco alcune foto dell’evento Wooding time all’Art Hotel Orologio del 14 dicembre.
Hotel Orologio Temporary show
Temporary Show all’Art Hotel Orologio, Bologna dove presenteremo la nuova collezione.
Bracciali, anelli, collane, orecchini e dai nuovi incredibili accessori per uomo, quali papillon, cravatte e pochette, sempre in legno.