Gucci presents the third act of Hortus Deliciarum, the High Jewelry collection designed by Creative Director Alessandro Michele.
Composed of unique pieces divided into five themes, this new encounter with the world of jewelry gathers together the passions and obsessions of an imaginary Grand Tour. Starting in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing to the 1970s, this fantastical journey is suspended in time and space as it creates a ‘memory of memories’.
The resulting jewelry collection embodies an ethical, aesthetic value by bringing together different cultures and restoring the splendor of rarities existing side by side. The pieces are products of experience and a kind of travel that distills, bringing together the past and the present while provoking clashes and encounters to build a multi-faceted future. This creative tension brings forth a High Jewelry collection whose value is intrinsic both within the imaginative process and to the material from which the evocative power of its story has developed.
Some memorizing highlights of the collection include the micro-mosaics of ancient Italian landscape brought to life as cameos embedded in sparkling peridot, yellow beryl, red and pink spinel, blue topaz, fire opal, pink tourmaline and colorful diamonds. As well as a tribute to the mystery of the pearl through the mythologies of Aphrodite and Cleopatra, featuring white, cream and black pearls combined with imperial topaz to create sautoirs paired with earrings and brooches; while the psychedelic colors of necklaces in white gold chains, diamonds holding real talismans in hexagonal emerald, pear-shaped green tourmaline, and aquamarine set in a green enamel frame enclosing baguette-cut diamonds highlight the the pop culture of 1970s.
