Personal links: Lucrezia Buccellati

At her Milanese family jeweller, Lucrezia Buccellati creates pieces as unique and individual as her clientele

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At jewellery house Buccellati, melodic-sounding names describe signature engraving techniques. With Telato, fine lines are crosshatched to mimic the surface of linen fabrics. A tulle-like finish is achieved with Ornato, a labour-intensive method that requires Buccellati artisans to hand-bore a gold plate to create tiny hexagonal indentations in a honeycomb pattern. The Milanese brand’s Macri designs are sought after for their lustrous silken finish. Here, what resembles many spun threads is in fact a trick of the eye as the collection’s black, yellow, white or rose gold surfaces are chiselled with wispy, parallel Rigato lines.

“I love that there is work and texture to our jewellery,” says Lucrezia Buccellati. A member of the family jeweller’s fourth generation, Buccellati joined the firm in 2014. As co-creative director, she now works alongside her father Andrea. “People don’t come to Buccellati for smooth, shiny jewellery.”

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