It's never too late to realize your dreams, and I can say that because it's what I'm experiencing now.
As a boy I dreamed of becoming an architect, but the circumstances of life led me to work for about 40 years as a computer scientist in a large multinational company and to move 10 years ago with my wife from Naples to Milan, where we still live.

In all these years I have never had the time to cultivate my passions and the travels I did were almost all of work.
Now that the retirement is approaching I have rediscovered the beauty of having time, the time to go back to drawing, to think, to create, to deepen the history of art, architecture, and to travel for pleasure.

The idea of ​​jewelry was actually born of my wife who one day told me she would like a jewel that would remind her of her Naples. So I thought I would create it for her. And here began this journey, a journey that led me to open my shop on Etsy and tell you my story.

The jewels that I design usually come from a trip I've made. When I come back I draw what struck me most by putting together history, art and architecture, then I make the 3D model taking care of it in the smallest details, I realize the first prototype and finally my goldsmith friends make the jewel.

I create jewels that tell beautiful moments of life.
The value they have is given by what they represent and this is something absolutely unique and personal. The same city can arouse in each of us a thousand different memories. And memories are part of us, of our past but also of our present. What we are today. They tell our story, they are full of emotions, sensations.
It makes me happy to think that every jewel I create will give something unique. For you maybe it will represent the country where you were born, or the city where you spent your honeymoon. For someone else it will be the memory of an unforgettable trip with the classmates, or a place that would like to see a day, or where he met his love. There are so many reasons that can link us to a place, and there are places that speak for themselves, for the history that has crossed them.
I love history and architecture and for this reason in every jewel I try to put them together, I create a link between all the elements that I decide to insert. For example, in the ring of Rome, in addition to the monuments, I inserted a reference to the ancient Romans because it is above all for them that we owe the grandeur of this city.

All of my time today is dedicated to this project and for the first time in my life I enjoy the satisfaction of creating something of my own, which allows me to express my creativity and through which I can give emotions to others.
Giovanni