Naples goldsmith atelier founded 1894 by Raffaele Barbarulo, documented via his 1894 marriage record; now run by his great-grandson Cristiano Barbarulo, the fourth-generation jeweller, since 2012.
Best for Neapolitan cufflinks and studs.
Barbarulo Napoli 1894 is a family goldsmith's workshop in Naples specializing in handmade cufflinks and jewelry. Its founding is dated to 1894 via an act of marriage recording founder Raffaele Barbarulo's trade as a goldsmith in the province of Naples that year. The business passed down through the family across four generations; Cristiano Barbarulo, Raffaele's great-grandson, took over running the atelier in 2012 as the last direct descendant still active in the trade, continuing the handcrafted production methods while developing the range further. The workshop is known for bespoke cufflinks and has supplied pieces used in film, including for Michael Caine in Youth and Geoffrey Rush in The Best Offer.
DoDo began in Milan in 1994 and makes charm jewellery with recurring animal and nature references. Charms can be combined into bracelets or necklaces, while collections such as Granelli and Pepita develop sand and pebble forms. The house has its own boutiques and product identity, separate from the jewellery offered by its sister house Pomellato.
Best for Nature-themed charms and jewellery to combine
DoDo is a Milan jewellery house launched in 1994, with small charms at the centre of its design vocabulary. Part of Kering's jewellery group, it offers pieces that can be combined into bracelets and necklaces rather than chosen only as fixed compositions. Animal forms and other nature references give many of the charms a recognisable subject of their own.
The Granelli collection takes its cue from sand, while Pepita draws on the rounded shapes of pebbles by the sea. These are different ways the house uses natural forms, alongside the dodo bird that supplies its name and emblem. A shopper can start with an individual charm or compare the larger pieces that carry these recurring shapes.
DoDo has its own boutiques, including a Naples opening covered by local newspapers in 2023, rather than being merely a label within Pomellato. That relationship does not make the two houses' shops or collections interchangeable when planning a purchase. For this range, the practical starting point is the charm or form you want to build a piece around.
Naples jeweler on Via San Biagio dei Librai, inside the Renaissance Palazzo Marigliano; bought as a shop in 1922 by Maria, widowed after her husband Paolo's earlier goldsmith workshop in the Sanità district closed, and still family-run in gold, silver and coral.
Best for Neapolitan coral and gold.
Salvio Gioielleria's history begins with Paolo, who ran a goldsmithing workshop with more than twenty craftsmen in Naples's Sanità district in the early 20th century — an operation that closed amid wartime disruption. After Paolo's death, his widow Maria, left with three children, bought a shop in 1922 at Via San Biagio dei Librai 41, inside the 16th-century Palazzo Marigliano in the heart of Naples's historic center — the same address the business trades from today. The family has run the shop continuously since that purchase, a stretch the business itself marks as 96 years of operation in its own materials, and describes its continuity as passed 'from generation to generation.' The jewelry mixes gold, silver and coral — coral working has its own long tradition along the Bay of Naples — and the shop also runs a workshop doing restoration of antique and religious objects, engraving, and repairs to gold and silver pieces, plus routine services like watch battery changes.
Roman jewellery house founded 1994 by Francesco Albonetti and Paola Miotti — handcrafted pieces in recycled aluminium, brass and plated silver, now made across a network of artisan partners and 130 own-name stores.
Best for Handmade Italian costume jewellery in recycled materials.
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