Graduated in sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Roma, Sandra Di Giacinto, has always been fascinated by recycled materials (cardboards, special binding papers and folded coated metallic papers), the different ways in which they can be treated, and assembled into innumerable shapes. The designer is strongly attracted by Japanese art. However, the pleating technique that she uses draws inspiration from ancient Greece.

Her collection of jewels and bags is therefore minimal, light, durable and brightly coloured. Sandra Di Giacinto’s work is characterized by the constant research. Art has been a great source of inspiration. All the jewels and bags are hand-made in Italy, in limited edition, with an innovative use of materials.

The latest collections exhibited at Premiere Classe international show in Paris drew a lot of attention.

Sandra Di Giacinto’s jewellery have been selected by trendy boutiques, multi brands stores all over the world  and also by prestigious museum shops  as Museum of Arts and Design-MAD in New York, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Mudam in Luxembourg, Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  MoMa, and Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.   

Some of her pieces have been chosen by VICENZA FAIR to be shown at the exhibition “Contemporary Italian Jewellery: techniques and materials through art and design”.

The exhibition intended to highlight the co-existence and blending of traditions with current trends whereby a jewel is valuable not only because of the material used, but also due to its design.

Designers and companies representing the excellence of the “Italian way” with no limits put on age, materials, locations or research themes have been invited  to show.

The thread that sinuously links them all together is a tenaciously followed desire to rework tradition in line with shapes of innovation, materials, creation or production techniques. Jewels whose value lies in their design, here a synonym of quality, because as Enzo Mari claimed “the quality of a design depends on the amount, no matter how small, of cultural change that it triggers off”.

The exhibition was inaugurated on January 2008 in Vicenza, in Palazzo Valmarana.

It has been moved to the Sforzesco Castle in Milan during Salone del Mobile and  on July 2008 it was showed in the prestigious  Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) of Berlin in Germany.

The catalogue is edited by Alba Cappellieri and published by Skira-Rizzoli International.

Sandra Di Giacinto collections are registered and protected at OHIM, Trade marks and design registration office of the European Union agency.

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