Écrin

Milan & Valenza · Milan, since 1994

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Pomellato's younger sister speaks in grams, not carats: one-gram gold animals on a cotton cord, grains and pebbles of gold to thread one at a time. Its pictures come from the shore of Mauritius, home of the extinct bird it is named for, and it has worked with WWF since it opened in Milan in 1994.

Founded by Pomellato (Pino Rabolini). Ideas from €50. DoDo site

The conversation

Inside the house

  • Pepita bracelet: a circle of smooth, slightly irregular rose-gold beads closed by a white-metal T-bar, on a white ground

    Pepita after Granelli

    Pepita swaps the dimpled grains for gold pebbles worn smooth by the sea, each a little irregular, threaded the same way.