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Elsa Peretti (1940-2021) was a renowned jewelry designer for Tiffany & Co. and a fashion model who worked with Halston. She also supported various philanthropic causes and restored a village in Spain.
After the bead is slowly cooled, it is removed from the rod, resulting in a hole for eventual stringing as jewelry. Wedding cake beads known as Fiorato (decorated with glass overlays featuring roses, swirls and dots) and Venetian foil beads (with fusion of color, gold and silver foil) are two of the kinds of beads made using the lamp-work method.
Millefiori beads. Glass beads (a.k.a. Murano beads) were made by the Venetians beginning in the 1200s. The beads were used as rosary beads and jewelry. They were also popular in Africa. Christopher Columbus noted that the people of the New World (Native Americans) were "delighted" with the beads as gifts, and beads became popular with American ...
The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words "mille" (thousand) and "fiori" (flowers). [1] Apsley Pellatt in his book Curiosities of Glass Making was the first to use the term "millefiori", which appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1849; prior to that, the beads were called mosaic beads.
In 2001, Mennella and Scognamiglio launched a fine jewelry line called Faraone Mennella by R.F.M.A.S. Group. [4]After being prominently featured in the television show, Sex and the City, a profile of Faraone Mennella was featured as the cover story of WWD, which got the attention of retailers such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. [5]
Fortunato Pio Castellani (1794–1865) is regarded as the forefather of the family. In 1814, Fortunato opened his own workshop in Rome. The progenitor specialized in the creation of jewels emulating the ones that then came to light from the necropolis of Etruria, that were found in the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum or that could be observed in the Campana collection.