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The stars and the jewellery dream Valter Franco Ricci
"What is love? I met a young man in love on the street: he had an old hat on, his jacket worn out, water ran through the soles of his shoes and stars through his soul'. Rarely in the history of literature has anyone been able to express so effectively - as in these few beautiful lines by Victor Hugo - the wonderful inner turmoil caused by love.
"What is love? I met a young man in love on the street: he had an old hat, a worn-out jacket, water was running through the soles of his shoes and the stars through his soul".
Rarely in the history of literature has anyone been able to express as effectively - as in these few, beautiful lines by Victor Hugo - the marvellous inner turmoil caused by love.
And it is no coincidence that the great French writer chose, as the term of his metaphor, the stars, a symbol that has always been a symbol of the desire for the Good turned upwards: Dante Alighieri himself structured his Commedia in such a way that all three of his celebrated cantiche ended with the word 'stars'.
The stars have this singular destiny: to represent the inexhaustible inspirational resource for poets throughout the centuries, but also a daydream for all of us, who when we try to draw them or even just think of them, give them an imaginary form, translating into a solid, tangible body what is actually the luminous and sparkling aura that surrounds the star.
Because of this intrinsically allusive and dreamlike nature, Valter Franco Ricci wanted to model the jewels of the 'Sognami' lineprecisely on the stars.
Unlike other collections, which play with the skilful unravelling of unusual volumes, the declared stylistic feature is the eternal simplicity of the symbol, without renouncing the sinuous roundness that distinguishes the Maison's lines.
Here, the unmistakable style Valter Franco Ricci accompanies the jewellery - earrings, necklaces and bracelets - with greater discretion, leaving it to the purity of the metal (silver or Rose Gold) to emphasise the preciousness of the Stella, whose light is also enhanced by the versions with pave or central diamonds ; up to creating the suggestion, with the beautiful rigid necklace in rose gold, of the meeting of a Star with a mottled stone of light reflected on the seashore.
A landscape of enchantment, in which it is not difficult to imagine hearing, in the gentle lapping of the waves, a faint whisper: "Dream me".
