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immagine: Elsa Peretti per Tiffany, Spilla Amapola (papavero), oro e seta rossa – Amapola (poppy) Brooch for Tiffany in red silk and gold.
Elsa Peretti (Firenze, 1° maggio 1940 – Sant Martí Vell, 18 marzo 2021) è stata una designer e filantropa italiana.
Disegnò diversi gioielli per Tiffany & Co., inclusi nella collezione del XX secolo del British Museum, del Museum of Fine Arts di Boston e nel Museum of Fine Arts di Houston.
Nel 1974 la Peretti, modella di Halston, Helmut Newton e Francesco Scavullo, giunse a Tiffany con i suoi moderni pezzi di gioielleria. Il libro di John Lorning, Tiffany Style – 170 Years of Design, ha dedicato 18 pagine di immagini ai suoi gioielli. È stata in gran parte responsabile del restauro del villaggio di Sant Martí Vell in Catalogna.
Attraverso le sue fondazioni, ha sostenuto un’ampia varietà di cause culturali, sociali e artistiche … continua a leggere su Wikipedia
Elsa Peretti (1 May 1940 – 18 March 2021), was an Italian jewelry designer and philanthropist as well as a fashion model.
Her jewelry and design pieces for Tiffany & Co. are included in the 20th century collection of the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 1974 Peretti, the “Halstonette” fashion model arrived at Tiffany’s with her modern jewelry. Her broadly popular work, including pieces like Bean, Bone Cuff and Open Heart, became as much as 10% of Tiffany’s business and John Loring’s Tiffany Style – 170 Years of Design devotes 18 pages of images to her jewelry and tableware design.
Vogue described her as “arguably the most successful woman ever to work in the jewelry field.” As a philanthropist, Peretti supported a wide variety of causes, and also privately undertook the restoration of the historic village of Sant Martí Vell in Catalonia, Spain … keep on reading Wikipedia
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