Granelli or Elsa Peretti Diamonds by the Yard

For Diamonds by the Yard, Elsa Peretti set stones flat in thin gold bezels along a fine chain at Tiffany in 1974, so they seem scattered on the skin and can be worn lightly every day. DoDo began twenty years later with Granelli, dimpled gold grains modelled on the sand of Mauritius and sold one by one, so a bracelet on a cord can fill up over the years. Both made precious jewelry modular: chain bought by the length, gold bought by the grain.