Collection Gioielli di Firenze·Orecchini·Florentine style
White and yellow gold earrings with openwork mesh and diamonds, Florentine style
The Renaissance mesh in white gold, the shoulders engraved in yellow gold.
Drawn and built by hand at the bench, in Tosi.
Two golds in a single earring. The center is white gold, pierced with the mesh the Florentines were already cutting in the Renaissance: a regular net that holds the light suspended. The shoulders are yellow gold, engraved with the burin, and carry the diamonds.
Eleven grams thirty-seven, eighteen carat gold. The natural brilliant-cut diamonds come to seventy-seven hundredths of a carat in all, color F and clarity VVS. They measure one centimeter nine by one three.
The material
Weights and carats as the workshop declares them.
- Metals
- White and yellow gold 18kt 750‰
- Style
- Florentine style
- Dimensions
- 1.9 × 1.3 cm
- Technique
- Made by hand: the central part pierced in a mesh, the shoulders engraved with the burin.
The diamonds
Natural. Position, cut, carats, colour and clarity.
How it is made
The words of the trade, one by one, explained to those who do not know them.
- Openwork
- The metal is drilled and then cut out from the inside with a very fine saw, until the solid sheet becomes a drawing of voids. It is a technique that allows no second attempt: what is taken away does not come back.
- Mesh work
- The piercing does not make a single hole: it makes a regular net, and every link has to carry the weight of the others. Getting one cut wrong means weakening the whole net.
- Burin engraving
- The burin is a goldsmith's small chisel pushed by hand. It does not scratch: it lifts a shaving of metal and leaves a clean groove that picks up the light. It is the mark that for five centuries has distinguished the Florentine goldsmithing school.
- Brilliant cut
- Fifty-seven facets calculated so that the light entering from above comes back out the same way. It is the cut that makes a diamond sparkle, and the reason a badly cut diamond stays dull.
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.
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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