centro cultural tina modotti Fulco di Verdura, Potted Plant, spilla con zaffiri, smeraldi e diamanti, 1965
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… continua a leggere su Wikipedia
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Fulco Santo Estéfano Della Cerda, conde di Verdura. Fue un aristócrata italiano que revolucionó la joyería del siglo XIX con diseños inspirados en su infancia transcurrida en una villa siciliana del siglo XVIII. Amigo de Coco Chanel y de Cole Porter, figura infaltable en las reuniones de la high society de Europa y América por más de cuatro décadas, este año se cumplen 75 años de la apertura de su primera maison.
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opera: Fulco di Verdura, Potted Plant, spilla con zaffiri, smeraldi e diamanti, 1965
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)