The whole necklace on the neck display: the twenty-two silver corollas close the circle one after the other, each with its own stone at the centre

Collection Fiore d'Inverno·Collana·Floral motif drawn from winter flowers

Fiore d'Inverno necklace in silver with twenty-two corollas, one colored stone per flower

Twenty-two silver corollas, and each one is also the link that holds the others.

€1.100,00 CA126PV

Drawn and built by hand at the bench, in Tosi.

Twenty-two silver corollas one after another, and in the middle of each a single stone. Between one flower and the next there is only a ring: there is no chain beneath, the circle of the neck is made by the corollas. No two are alike — the rim stays wavy and out of true, the folds run out from the center, the cup is shallow. There are seven colors and the circle does not repeat them in the same order: yellow of citrine quartz, purple of amethyst, blue-violet of iolite, blue of topaz, dark red of ruby root, pink of quartz, green of peridot.

Fifty-six grams and sixty of silver 925 over fifty centimeters of circumference: it is a choker, it rests at the base of the neck and does not fall on the chest. All that weight passes through the corollas, because there is nothing else to carry it — each flower takes it from the two lugs soldered to its rim and passes it to the next. The seats of the stones sit at the center of the cup, and they are the one point in the whole piece that had to stay flat. The studio declares neither the carat weight nor the cut of any of the seven gems.

The material

Weights and carats as the workshop declares them.

56,60 gramsSilver 925‰
Metals
Silver 925‰
Style
Floral motif drawn from winter flowers
Finish
Polished
Dimensions
Total length 50 cm
Technique
Made entirely by hand in the company's goldsmith's studio.

The stones

Citrine quartz

One of the seven stones that alternate at the center of the corollas

Color
Giallo
Note
Carat weight and cut not declared

Amethyst

One of the seven stones that alternate at the center of the corollas

Color
Viola
Note
Carat weight and cut not declared

Iolite

One of the seven stones that alternate at the center of the corollas

Color
Blu-violetto
Note
Carat weight and cut not declared

Blue topaz

One of the seven stones that alternate at the center of the corollas

Color
Azzurro
Note
Carat weight and cut not declared

Ruby root

One of the seven stones that alternate at the center of the corollas

Color
Rosso scuro
Note
Carat weight and cut not declared

Rose quartz

One of the seven stones that alternate at the center of the corollas

Color
Rosa
Note
Carat weight and cut not declared

Peridot

One of the seven stones that alternate at the center of the corollas

Color
Verde
Note
Carat weight and cut not declared
The necklace resting against a block of marble: the wavy edge of each corolla and the small rings that hold them together can be read
Foreshortened view: the flowers follow one another in a row and none has the same outline as the one before
Front close-up: pink, light blue, green, purple and dark red, a single stone per corolla
Close shot from the side: the folds start at the centre of the cup and reach the edge, and the bezel occupies the only point left flat
The whole necklace seen from the front: around the circle the seven colours never come back in the same order

How it is made

The words of the trade, one by one, explained to those who do not know them.

Corolla from a single sheet
The corolla is not an assembly of petals: it is a single sheet, hollowed until it becomes a shallow cup and left irregular at the rim, with the folds running out from the center. The wavy rim cannot be corrected twice — stretched silver does not go back — so the first fold is the one that stays. In the middle of the cup is the one point that has to stay flat: it is the seat of the stone, and if the cup has moved there the setting does not sit.
Corolla that acts as a link
Here the flower is not hung from the necklace: the necklace is made of flowers. From each corolla come two lugs soldered to the rim, and it is those that take the rings of the neighboring flowers, so the weight of the whole circle passes through a hollowed, thin sheet. It is the point where the work goes against itself: hollowing the cup thins precisely the rim, and the rim is where the lug has to take hold. If it takes hold on the thin part it is not just any link that gives, it is the circle of the neck that opens — and a sheet already stretched, once opened, does not go back where it was.

I don't look at what others are doing: I would rather create in my own style. That is what makes our jewelry recognizable.

Fabio Gori — Anna Gioielli, Tosi

Made for you

Every piece leaves the bench made to order: sizes and details are agreed before the work begins.

The goldsmith's workshop is also the place where made-to-measure jewellery is created and family pieces are restored: if you have an idea, or something you want brought back to how it was, that is where it starts.

Ask for a made-to-measure piece
Made by
Anna Gioielli

A goldsmith's workshop in Tosi, on the slopes of the Pratomagno: Anna opened it in 1988, her sons Fabio and Francesco carry it on. Piercing, repoussé, chasing and burin engraving — the Florentine school, with the workshop in full view of the shop.

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