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Timeless Blue

By Amber Michelle
A blue carpet flanked by two blue Maseratis, a glowing blue light sculpture and a string of paparazzi cameras flashing like blue lightning led to Timeless Blue, a gala celebrating the opening of the New York flagship store for Milan-based fine jewelry brand Buccellati. The new Upper East Side Madison Avenue Buccellati townhouse was the elegant setting for an evening that focused on art and jewelry.
   The centerpiece of the event was an exhibition of one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces designed by Andrea and Lucrezia Buccellati. The jewelry designs were inspired by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard, Winslow Homer, Mikhail Larionov and Odilon Redon.
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   The fourth floor of the five-story townhouse showcased the exhibit. Each painting, provided by international fine art firm Wildenstein & Co. Inc., was displayed alongside a piece of jewelry that had been created based on the accompanying masterpiece. The five jewels, all crafted by hand, took a year and a half for multiple jewelers to fabricate. From waves to angel wings and spider webs to flowers, each piece of jewelry is intricately detailed with elements from the paintings that inspired the design. The hallway leading up to the exhibition room featured renderings for each piece of jewelry as well as a video of the jewelers fabricating the creations.
   The Buccellati family has created every design for the firm, which was established in 1919. Today, the youngest generation, and first woman designer, Lucrezia Buccellati works alongside her father Andrea, who leads the company’s creative direction. The pair worked together to design the pieces in the exhibition that take the house into the twenty-first century. The openwork of the jewelry and the lightness of the designs bestow a modern feeling to the pieces. This juxtaposes the core of Buccellati’s design aesthetic, which is steeped in the sumptuous traditions of goldsmiths from the Italian Renaissance.
   The evening also supported the Save Venice Foundation,which works to restore art and architecture in the city of canals.

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