Gatsby or Sabbia

Sabbia uses diamonds as texture: white, brown and black stones of mixed sizes, set at uneven heights over a rounded surface, the way sand catches light. Pomellato wanted the eye to read grain, not rows. Gatsby keeps the rows and pares them to one. Messika's pavé runs as a single straight stroke on bars, slim bands and hoops in three sizes, a 1920s geometry meant for layering, and its order is as deliberate as Sabbia's disorder.