Collection Marte·Anello
Marte wedding band ring in silver, straight band, perforated with two rows of large voids
Eight grams and thirty of silver pierced right through: on the finger the skin shows through the voids.
Drawn and built by hand at the bench, in Tosi.
The band is straight: it rises to the same height the whole way round, with no dome and no front, and whichever point is worn above the finger the design is the same. The surface is not engraved, it is pierced: the voids go right through, and on the finger you see the skin through the ring. They are wide voids, roundish but never round, of different sizes, arranged in two overlapping rows separated by a ridge of metal that waves and never keeps the same height. What is left of the silver is a mesh of thick ridges, re-polished on top, while the recesses and the edges inside the voids stay black. The two rims are not cut straight either: they follow the voids and scallop. Inside, on the other hand, the wall is flattened, and against the finger it stays smooth.
Eight grams and thirty of silver at nine hundred and twenty-five thousandths, and all of it is in the mesh. Here the voids are few and wide — not the dense field of small holes of the tall band in the same collection — so there is little metal left, and that little has to be enough to hold the circle on its own. In piercing, the solid metal that remains between one void and the next is both the design and the structure: where a little too much is taken away the ring gives at exactly that point, and what is taken away does not come back. The company offers it both for women and for men. The presentation box is included, and on request the same model is made in gold.
The material
Weights and carats as the workshop declares them.
- Metals
- Silver 925‰
- Finish
- Oxidized in the recesses, polished on the raised work
- Technique
- Made by hand in the company's goldsmith's studio. On request the same model is made in gold.
How it is made
The words of the trade, one by one, explained to those who do not know them.
- Irregular voids
- In geometric piercing the error is measured against the module that repeats; here there is no module, and every void has to be decided as it is opened. The risk shifts: not that a mesh comes out crooked, but that at some point the solid metal is left too thin, and the piece gives at exactly that spot. Whoever does it holds together two things that pull in opposite directions, an outline that has to look random and a thickness that has to carry.
- Oxidizing
- The silver is darkened deliberately, and then re-polished only where the light has to come back. The black stays in the voids and the recesses, the pale on the raised work: it is a design made by subtraction, and whoever does it decides where to stop the cloth.
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 ring is made in the size of the person who will wear it: we settle it together before the work begins. The same design can be made in gold.
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.
Della stessa famiglia
Due modi di cercare quello che somiglia a questo.










