About
CATERINA GALVANO
HANDCRAFTED WITH LOVE
CATERINA GALVANO PHILOSOPHY/ABOUT
Each of my jewels is handcrafted and wrought in every detail to be a unique piece. My jewels are stories, pieces of life, symbols, words, scents, special moments that blend into gold and stones to become a second skin.
My work is the quest of the essential, intimate and eternal in a way, the soul of things and to find this often my work is to subtract more than to add; it is removing the excess to find the essence, a perfect shape for our body, that goes with it in harmony as part of it.
The feeling that I want to give is one of radiance in every sense: that of beauty, light, emotion, energy. My jewels are often ethereal, featured in organic shapes and delicate forms, made to flow with the body lines and soul. My jewels gently live with you, making you feel beautiful and radiant every day. A beautiful journey where you discover that every detail carries a little world in it and that little gestures are the real nature of the world.
HOW THEY ARE MADE
My jewels are created and handcrafted following the antique goldsmithing techniques in my laboratory in Milan in limited series.
Every jewel is created from a gold or silver bar and evolves to completion in a thread, a leaf, a bracelet, a bezel, through different manufacturing stages and processes. Some pieces are made using the antique “lost wax” technique, where the piece is carved in wax and then melted in metal in a cast.
It is a work of hands and tools and ideas that blend together to create a little world, a jewel. I really enjoy bespoke orders, where creativity can flow free to create a custom-made piece, it is a wonderful conversation, in which taste, personality, desires are explored in order to create a unique jewel with its own special story.