{"id":2061760,"date":"2026-06-18T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2026\/06\/18\/buccellati-ghirlanda-color-the-renaissance-garland-reimagined-in-color\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:54:54","slug":"buccellati-ghirlanda-color-the-renaissance-garland-reimagined-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2026\/06\/18\/buccellati-ghirlanda-color-the-renaissance-garland-reimagined-in-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccellati Ghirlanda Color: The Renaissance garland reimagined in color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A garland is never merely an ornament. In the history of the decorative arts, it symbolizes abundance, the changing of the seasons, and sometimes victory. At Buccellati, it becomes a jeweled structure: a circular, repeating motif, open to light, where the engraved gold is as much a precious metal as it is a crafted material. <\/p>\n\n

With Ghirlanda Color, Buccellati brings color to one of its signature collections. The new pieces\u2014eternity rings, pendants, earrings, and bracelets\u2014combine white gold, engraved yellow gold, brilliant-cut white diamonds, and colored gemstones. This expansion features three color palettes: blue sapphires, pink sapphires, and green tsavorites. The House associates them respectively with wisdom and fidelity, love and good fortune, and vitality. <\/p>\n\n

The design draws its inspiration from Mario Buccellati\u2019s longstanding admiration for the Italian Renaissance, and more specifically for the works of the Della Robbia family. This family of Florentine artists became famous for their glazed terracotta reliefs, whose colorful glazes expanded the traditional palette of white and blue to include a wider range of hues. The Metropolitan Museum of Art notes that the Della Robbia family was renowned for their tin-glazed terracotta sculptures, and that Giovanni della Robbia\u2019s workshop developed a broader color palette than that of earlier generations. <\/p>\n\n

This parallel is not merely anecdotal. In Della Robbia\u2019s work, the garland does not merely frame a scene\u2014it imbues it with an organic rhythm. Flowers, leaves, and fruits become a secondary, almost musical architecture. Buccellati applies this principle on the scale of jewelry. The gemstone is not placed merely as a decorative accent; it brings the design to life, giving the motif a more immediate presence. <\/p>\n\n

The Ghirlanda Color collection remains true to the brand\u2019s signature style, which is rooted in gold engraving. Buccellati notes that the line features bracelets, rings, earrings, and pendants in white and yellow gold, set with sapphires, tsavorites, and diamonds. The tsavorite pieces, for example, are available as bracelets, pendants, earrings, and eternity rings, all featuring the same combination of white gold, yellow gold, and diamonds. <\/p>\n\n

In this evolution, Buccellati does not seek to break with its heritage. Rather, color acts as a shift in light. It shifts the garland from an almost architectural register to a more lively interpretation, closer to the nature from which it originates. Blue lends a sense of gravity, pink softens the lines, and green evokes the motif\u2019s botanical vitality. Nothing here is spectacular. The appeal lies in the tension between the permanence of the design and the variation in the material. <\/p>\n\n

Andrea Buccellati sums up this continuity by describing Ghirlanda Color as a \u201cbridge between the rich legacy of my father and my grandfather and a bold vision for the future.\u201d The phrase is particularly meaningful for what it reveals: at Buccellati, the future does not lie in discarding traditional codes, but in their gradual reinterpretation. A garland, a few gemstones, two engraved gold elements. The rest is all about the craftsmanship. <\/p>\n\n

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