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•Compiled with complete get admission to to Bulgari’s Documents
A jewel is greater than an association of treasured stones – this is a tale. That is the main on which Vincent Meylan, creator of Christie’s: The Jewelry Documents Discovered, Boucheron: The Mystery Documents, Van Cleef & Arpels: Treasures and Legends, and Mellerio: Jewellers to the Queens of Europe, has written his recent guide. Now, with remarkable get admission to to the Bulgari Documents, Meylan publications us on an intimate adventure throughout the lives of the purchasers, each well-known and notorious, who’ve given this pre-eminent Mediterranean jeweler their patronage.
Paris is also the standard house of the jeweller elite, However Bulgari embraces its Roman origins. From their early creations, impressed by way of Byzantine and Islamic structure, to designs just like the Trombino ring and Serpenti bracelets, which can be nonetheless related as of late, Bulgari gracefully navigates the road among up to date and undying.
Their shopper roster displays their status. The Aristocracy and superstar intermingle; the Countess di Frasso shopped at Bulgari along with her Hollywood famous person-beau, Gary Cooper, as did the Infanta Beatriz of Spain and Princess Maria José of Belgium. Richard Burton wooed Elizabeth Taylor with glittering Bulgari jewels, even as the decadent marriage of Tyrone Energy and Linda Christian featured Bulgari marriage ceremony jewelry. However those jewels inform stories of many genres, now not simply romance: from exiled Iranian Shahs to Depend Cini of Monselice, held for ransom by way of the SS and launched in change for Bulgari jewels.
Each tale is retold with Vincent Meylan’s feature verve, adorned with unique photos from the Documents. Chapters are devoted to rich shoppers, but in addition to the stones themselves, tracing the evolution of this iconic Roman corporate via historical past, and the advance in their jewellery from mine, to workshop, to style.
