Africa or Berbère

Berbère, the line that made Gaia Repossi's name after she took over her family's house in 2007, nods to Berber jewelry in its title and to modern art in its parallel rows of gold, fused into a single ring that reads as a stack. Marco Bicego's Africa is defined by technique instead: beads of yellow gold scored by hand with a burin, kept slightly irregular, and strung in graduated rows that glow rather than shine.