cctm collettivo culturale tuttomondo Fulco di Verdura (Italia)
Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, duca di Verdura (Palermo, 1898 – Londra, 1978), è stato un artista italiano, coetaneo e cugino di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
È ritenuto un’icona di stile del XX secolo. Conobbe e frequentò personaggi come Coco Chanel e Salvador Dalí.
Fulco di Verdura emigrò dalla Sicilia, risiedendo a Parigi, dove lavorò alla Maison Chanel e più avanti a New York, sulla Fifth Avenue, dove fondò il suo marchio di gioielli, seguito da esponenti del mondo dello spettacolo e del jet set internazionale … continua a leggere su Wikipedia
opera: Fulco di Verdura, Potted Plant, spilla con zaffiri, smeraldi e diamanti, 1965
Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Duke of Verdura (20 March 1898 – 15 August 1978) was an influential Italian jeweller. His career began with an introduction to designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel by composer Cole Porter.
He opened his own jewelry salon, which he called Verdura, in 1939.
He was the last to bear the now-defunct Sicilian title of Duke of Verdura, and his cousin was a prominent Sicilian prince, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author of the famous novel The Leopard. A biography of Fulco di Verdura was published by Thames & Hudson, authored by Patricia Corbett … keep on reading Wikipedia
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A protégé of Coco Chanel, Verdura had a list of devotees included Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, the Duchess of Windsor, Greta Garbo, Gloria Vanderbilt and Cole Porter.
The Verdura renaissance began in 1965 when Ward Landrigan, then Sotheby’s jewelry expert, discovered the brooch hidden in Sotheby’s vault. The bejeweled potted plant piqued Landrigan’s interest.
Soon, he would sell it back to Verdura, the first of hundreds of Verdura designs to pass through Landrigan’s hands before he bought Verdura’s name in 1985, seven years after the designer’s death. Included were nearly 10,000 sketches by the Italian nobleman.
In 2015, the twinkling, iconic Potted Plant appeared for private sale in Manhattan—and Landrigan bought it back. “It holds memories, history and meaning that money can’t buy,” he says. He won’t ever sell it again, but it can be viewed by appointment at Verdura’s Fifth Avenue salon.
(Carol Brodie)
