Roman holiday: Bulgari’s Barocko collection

A close look at the Green Dream necklace

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“Bonjourno! You are here!” sings Bulgari’s creative director Lucia Silvestri. The gregarious Silvestri is not in fact talking to me, but rather to a magnificent amethyst that has just arrived from the workshops where it has been recut to meet Bulgari’s (read her) standards. “This was a stone with a beautiful colour, [but needed] re-cutting in our style, with our master cut... It’s here, it’s here, I could scream, it’s finally here.” Silvestri exclaims, “I could feel the life inside this stone”. This sort of meticulous examination and deeply held passion for coloured stones is at the heart of why Bulgari sits at the pinnacle of high jewellery design. However, we’re not here - or rather on video link from London - to discuss this new edition to the Bulgari safes, but instead the Barocko collection which made its debut in Rome this July.

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