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Milan & Valenza · Milan, since 1919

Buccellati

Gold worked by hand until it looks like cloth: rigato lines with the sheen of silk, tulle pierced into a honeycomb of lace, threads twisted into tiny rings. Since Mario Buccellati opened in Milan in 1919, the same chisel and saw techniques have passed through four generations of the family.

Founded by Mario Buccellati. Buccellati site

Opera

Opera

2015
Macri

Macri
Hawaii

Hawaii
Tulle

Tulle

The conversation

Buccellati answering

  • Alhambra

    Opera after Alhambra, Van Cleef & Arpels

    Opera cuts the house's own four-petalled rosette free and wears it alone, the way the clover is worn.

Answered by other houses

  • Extremely Piaget open cuff in rose gold, chased with fine vertical lines and scattered with small diamonds, on a transparent ground.

    Extremely Piaget, Piaget after Macri

    Extremely Piaget takes up gold engraved until it reads as cloth, chasing its cuffs like silk or bark.

  • Bee de Chaumet medium pendant in rose gold: an open circle of hexagonal honeycomb cells, some set with diamonds, on a fine chain, on a transparent ground.

    Bee de Chaumet, Chaumet after Tulle

    Chaumet builds a whole line on the hexagonal cell, the honeycomb set side by side into bands, hoops and pavé.

  • Precious Lace Mini-Frou-Frou ring in rose gold: a scalloped lace flower of pear-cut and round diamonds, on a white ground.

    Precious Lace, Chopard after Tulle

    Chopard also turns gold into lace, scalloped and set with diamonds into ruffles and waves.

Inside the house

  • Opera

    Opera after Tulle

    Opera Tulle lays the house's rosette over the honeycomb openwork Mario Buccellati developed in the 1920s.

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