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High Jewelry: Alessandro Michele, the prodigy of Gucci, in love with Rome and jewelry

2022-06-21T15:48:03.849Z


INTERVIEW - The creative director of the Italian house is an inveterate collector of old pieces, in particular those set with micromosaics of the Eternal City. A passion that inspires his collection.


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Stepping through the gates of Villa Albani, a neoclassical haven in the heart of Rome, is a journey.

Built in the middle of the 18th century by Cardinal Albani to house his collections of antiquities, this palace also housed the finds of his friends returning from the Grand Tour.

Three centuries later, these long initiatory journeys around Europe, undertaken by young people of high society and of which Rome was the main stage, inspired Alessandro Michele for the third chapter of Hortus Deliciarum, the high jewelry collection Gucci.

The house of the Kering group therefore presented last week to its customers, in this wonderful setting, a hundred pieces, always in a singular style, but with more imposing stones (whose prices range from 50,000 to 2 million euros).

LE FIGARO.

- How does this third chapter differ from the previous ones?

Alessandro MICHELE…

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Source: lefigaro

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