The islands could also be completely different, however the spirit is identical.
That’s maybe why Maria Elena Aprea, Chantecler’s inventive director primarily based in Capri, immediately clicked with artist Roberto Longo – generally known as Roberto di Alicudi, a nickname drawn from the Aeolian Island off the coasts of Sicily the place he’s primarily based – and enlisted him to collaborate on a capsule assortment.
The storied jeweler, established in Capri in 1947 by Salvatore Aprea and Pietro Capuano, has teamed up with the artist on a collection of one-of-a-kind items created in keeping with the “pincisanti” method, the thousand-year-old artwork of miniature oil portray on vintage glass, which Longo masters.
The artworks, performed by hand at his atelier in Alicudi, depict legends, myths and tales connecting the 2 islands. Chantecler has carved valuable frames for them, within the form of earrings, brooches and pendants, setting the glass in supplies starting from rose gold to titanium.
A piece in progress as new glass artworks are finalized, the gathering at present includes the Alicudi earrings that includes a mermaid flanked by a star and an outsized brooch displaying the well-known blue lizard, a particular species of the reptile inhibiting Capri’s Faraglioni sea stacks.
The capsule of distinctive items, nicknamed Capricudi, a crasis of Capri and Alicudi, will probably be solely obtainable on the model’s flagship shops.
Earrings from the Chantecler and Roberto di Alicudi capsule assortment.
Courtesy of Chantecler
