Parentesi

A bracket-shaped gold link, repeated and locked into necklaces and bracelets like the joints between Roman paving stones.

Introduced: 1982 — V&A: designed 1982.
Designer: Gianni Bulgari
Idea: The chain as the piece, the knot and the link
School: Rome
Materials: yellow gold, white gold, steel, diamond

The story

Gianni Bulgari was doodling square, round and double brackets during a design meeting when he saw that the sign could become a modular link, and the Parentesi line followed in 1982. Its interlocking elements are often read as the travertine joints of ancient Roman pavements. It was the house's first modular jewellery, made in gold alone or with steel, diamonds and stones.

Lineage

Answered by · 2017
Tiffany HardWear, Tiffany & Co. (2017)
HardWear takes up the single link repeated into a necklace and gives it the weight of industrial gauge chain.