DISCOVERING VINTAGE JEWELS
Exhibition
GIOIELLERIA PENNISI | Via Manzoni, 29 Milan
20 October 2022 | 03:30 pm – 07 pm
By visiting the Pennisi Jewelery the visitor can immerse yourself in the world of vintage jewelery and objets de vertu, in a period ranging from 1700 to 1940, signed by the most prestigious high jewelery houses such as Cartier, Van Cleef, Lacloche. Visitors will be transported back in time among the jewels of the 1700s from all over Europe mounted in silver and precious and semiprecious stones; 1800 jewels mounted on silver, yellow gold and precious stones belonging to the nobility of the European families; the period of the early 1900s with the Belle Epoque and Liberty with floral shapes; the Art Deco with geometric shapes born during the Universal Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925; the 40s. One of the characteristics that differentiates the possession of a modern jewel from a vintage one is that visitor will be the owner of a piece of history that is unique in the world.
About
Pennisi Jewelry was founded in 1971 by Giovanni Pennisi, a diamantaire with the vocation of the collector and a passion for ancient art. Grandson of jewelers and goldsmiths in Catania, Giovanni continued the tradition of his maternal family in Milan. His son Guido runs the shop, flanked by his sister Marina and his wife Paola. From the very beginning, he specialized in Chinese and Japanese art, antique jewelry and objets de vertu.