Bellagio / Italy
New Wave Bellagio is a jeweller on Salita Serbelloni in Bellagio working in silver and coral as well as gold.
Best for Silver, coral, cameos and gold
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Italian jewellery moves from Palermo gold benches to the porticos of Vicenza, marquetry boxes included. Palermo's Fiorentino Gioielli dal 1890 has been a landmark of Sicilian jewellery since 1890. Stinga Tarsia hand-inlays jewelry boxes and music boxes with 19th-century marquetry techniques. Aldighieri Gioielli handcrafts gold and gemstone jewellery under the porticos of Vicenza by Veneto. What a piece is set in matters more than what it costs, because the setting outlives the fashion.
Bellagio / Italy
New Wave Bellagio is a jeweller on Salita Serbelloni in Bellagio working in silver and coral as well as gold.
Best for Silver, coral, cameos and gold
Biella / Italy
Oreficeria Artiglia in Biella creates handmade artistic jewellery worked in gold and in silver.
Best for Handmade artistic jewelry
Catania / Italy
Mizzica on Via Garibaldi in Catania is a souvenir shop and a workshop, where the owner makes and personalises.
Best for Sicilian jewellery and decorative objects
Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Goldsmith-alchemist of Via San Niccolò — sculptural jewel-architecture in a museum-workshop.
Best for Wearable gothic sculpture.
Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Florence's resin-jewel colorist since 1975 — bold costume jewelry loved by costume designers.
Best for Statement resin jewels.
Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Florence jewelry atelier founded in 1993 by Ornella Aprosio, a former antique-costume restorer, who designs necklaces and earrings from Murano glass micro-beads and Bohemian crystal, made with about thirty artisans at her Via del Moro workshop.
Best for Glass-bead marvels.
Aprosio & Co. was founded in Florence in 1993 by Ornella Aprosio, who was born in Rome and began her career as an assistant editor at Vogue before working as a restorer of antique clothing, including 1920s evening gowns — work that gave her hands-on expertise in fine, complex beadwork. That restoration background shaped the atelier she later opened: jewelry built from Murano glass micro-beads, known in Italian as conteria, sourced from Venice, combined with Bohemian crystal beads from the Czech Republic. Aprosio designs necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and handbags worked into floral and figurative motifs, produced with a workshop of around thirty artisans rather than mass manufacture. The atelier operates from Florence, with new collections previewed each year in Paris alongside the ready-to-wear calendar, positioning the jewelry within a fashion context rather than as purely decorative craft. The beadwork technique — building dimensional, sculptural jewelry entirely from small glass and crystal spheres rather than metal settings — remains the atelier's defining signature and the basis for its inclusion among Florence's recognized artisan workshops.
Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Florence jewelry shop on Via Lambertesca, between the Ponte Vecchio and the Uffizi, operating since 1979; hand-crafts two lines - sea-themed 'Storie di Mare' pieces and Murano-glass 'Disegni di Luce.'
Best for Storie di Mare jewelry and Murano-glass Disegni di Luce in Florence
Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Officine Nora is a shared jewellery studio and shop on Via dei Preti in Florence, established in 2014. Independent makers use its equipped benches and sell their jewellery, with the shop describing its pieces as handmade in Italy. Workshops and private lessons provide another way to engage with the studio, separate from buying a finished piece.
Best for Independent jewellery makers and goldsmith workshops in Florence
Officine Nora is a jewellery coworking studio and shop in Florence, bringing several independent makers into one working space. Margherita de Martino Norante developed the project after jewellery school and established its shared environment in 2014. The studio occupies a former precision-mechanics workshop, connecting its present work with the building's earlier practical use.
Makers can rent equipped benches, while shoppers can choose jewellery from the independent artists working within the project. The shop describes its pieces as handmade in Italy, rather than presenting a single designer's uniform collection. Different makers bring their own approaches, so the material and construction should be considered for the particular piece being bought.
Workshops and private lessons offer a separate reason to visit from buying a finished object. Identify the kind of experience you want before making an enquiry, since learning at a bench differs from browsing the shop. The published address is Via dei Preti in Florence, not a shopfront on Ponte Vecchio simply because jewellery is the subject.
Brera (Via Solferino, 3) / Online
Milan jewellery atelier producing handmade gold pieces with coloured gemstones and custom commissions.
Best for Handmade 9k and 18k gold jewellery with coloured gemstones and custom commissions
Milano / Brera
Minimalist gold jewellery — the L'Essenziale bracelet, hand-finished in Milan, and the delicate gold that Brera's art crowd wears.
Best for L'Essenziale bracelet, minimalist gold, hand-finished Milan.
Milan / Online
Private appointments cover new engagement rings as well as redesigning inherited jewellery. Clients can bring an older piece, discuss stones and setting changes, then receive a quote for a custom commission.
Best for Milan jewellery house designing gold rings, necklaces, bracelets
Milan / Online
Milanese jewelry house founded in 1967 by Pino Rabolini, credited with pioneering prêt-à-porter fine jewelry in Italy; owned by the Rabolini family until Kering acquired it in 2013. Its Nudo ring — a bare faceted gemstone in a four-claw gold setting — is its signature design.
Best for Nudo rings and colored-stone everyday luxury.
Pomellato was founded in Milan in 1967 by Pino Rabolini (1936-2018), who came from a family with a background in goldsmithing but wanted to move fine jewelry away from its traditional, occasion-only role. Rather than pieces reserved for formal events, Rabolini designed jewelry meant to be worn as part of daily life — an approach the brand and Italian press later described as prêt-à-porter jewelry, borrowing ready-to-wear language from fashion. Early pieces were reportedly inspired by women from Milan's creative circles who frequented Bar Jamaica, a well-known meeting spot in the city's Brera district. The house built its identity on colored gemstones and soft, wearable gold work rather than the diamond-centric formality of traditional high jewelry. In 2001 Pomellato introduced the Nudo ring, its now-signature design: a large faceted colored stone held by a simple four-prong gold setting with no pavé or additional stonework, letting the color and cut of the gem stand on its own; the line has since extended across rings, earrings and other jewelry in numerous stone and gold-tone combinations. The Rabolini family controlled Pomellato through its holding company RA.MO until 2013, when the French luxury group Kering acquired the house. Pomellato continues to produce from its own atelier in Milan.
Portofino / Italy
Verga 1947 is a fourth-generation Milanese watch and jewellery house that opened its first boutique outside Milan on Portofino's waterfront at Calata Marconi 45, carrying Hublot, Girard-Perregaux, Grand Seiko and Pomellato. The roughly 40-square-metre space also offers Verga's own pre-owned watch selection.
Best for Watches, Jewelry
Modena / Italy
A Modena goldsmith working since 1974, designing bespoke rings from 3-D renderings with GIA- and IGI-certified diamonds. Clients visit the shop on Via Castellaro to choose settings and stones, with free resizing and lifetime cleaning.
Best for Jewelry, Goldsmith, Custom Jewelry
Historic & Traditional Shops, Naples / Online
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.
Via Chiaia, Naples / Online
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.
Historic & Traditional Shops, Naples / Online
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.
Naples / Rome / Online
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.
Ostuni / Italy
Arte D'Oro is a jeweller on Via Miccoli in Ostuni making jewellery set with gems and stones.
Best for Jewellery with gems and stones
Ostuni / Italy
The shop #restoinpuglia on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in Ostuni sells jewellery and amulets inspired by Puglia.
Best for Jewellery and amulets
Palermo / Italy
A landmark of Sicilian jewellery since 1890, Fiorentino has returned to Via Liberta with cases of Marco Bicego, Salvini, Piero Milano and Mattioli alongside its own creations. The Palermo boutique offers bespoke commissions and ships nationally through its online shop.
Best for Landmark of Sicilian jewellery since 1890
Palermo / Italy
Founded by Cavaliere Angelo Bracco in 1934, this Via Mariano Stabile jeweller in Palermo shows diamond solitaires, gold pieces and watches from Vulcain and other houses. Its atelier serves walk-in clients and takes orders through an online catalogue.
Best for Jewelry, watches, diamonds
Pisa / Italy
Bottega Etrusca has sold handcrafted jewelry from its shop on Pisa's Borgo Stretto since 1974, specializing in pearl, coral, and cameo pieces alongside a custom wedding registry service. The jeweler keeps regular shop hours Tuesday through Saturday and also sells its collections through an online store with free in-store pickup.
Best for Jewelry, Handmade, Gifts
Rome / Online
Rome jewelry house founded in 1884 by Greek silversmith Sotirio Bulgari, who opened his first boutique on Via Sistina; the flagship moved to Via dei Condotti in 1905, where it became a fixture of Rome's 'Dolce Vita' era. Known for the Serpenti coil motif and bold cabochon-set high jewelry.
Best for Serpenti jewels and Roman high jewelry.
Jewelry houses borrow from antiquity; Bulgari behaves like its heir. Founded in Rome in 1884, the house works as if the classical world were not a museum but a supplier — coins set into gold, cabochons cut bold and domed where Paris whispers in facets, colored stones combined with an appetite the Romans would have recognized as their own. The result reads instantly: this is jewelry from the city of emperors, made by a house that never saw a reason for restraint to be the only form of taste.
The Serpenti is the thesis worn on the wrist: a snake of gold and enamel coiling as if excavated from a villa and improved by modern hinges — antiquity, engineered. It slithers through the house's history from watches to high jewelry, the emblem of a maison that treats glamour as a Roman birthright. Via Condotti, at the foot of the Spanish Steps, is the ancestral address: the boutique where the dolce vita bought its jewels and the twentieth century's most photographed women stopped between films.
Everything is handcrafted in Rome from precious stones and metals, and the Roman-ness is not a marketing note but a working method — the boldness of scale, the saturation of color, the conviction that a jewel should be seen across a piazza. Paris made jewelry an etiquette. Rome, through Bulgari, kept it an appetite.
Art, Antiques & Galleries, Rome / Online
Rome vintage-jewelry house that grew out of an 1894 cafe near Piazza di Spagna; Pietro Eleuteri turned it into an antiques shop in 1963, and his son Carlo built it into Italy's leading dealer in antique and vintage jewelry, headquartered on Via Condotti.
Best for Collector estate jewels.
Eleuteri's Rome address at Via Condotti 79 has a history that predates jewelry: in 1894 an elegant cafe opened at nearby Via del Gambero 7. The shift to jewelry came in 1963, when Pietro Eleuteri, a collector with a passion for ancient art, opened an antiques shop on the site. His son Carlo went on to specialize in vintage and antique jewelry, building what is now widely regarded as Italy's foremost destination for the category. Eleuteri has since expanded with boutiques in Milan, Venice, Cortina, Porto Cervo, St. Moritz and New York, and has lent pieces to institutional exhibitions including the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.
Via Frattina, Rome / Online
Austrian crystal at democratic prices since 1895 — Wattens-cut brilliance in jewelry, figurines and fashion collaborations.
Best for Crystal sparkle gifts.
Torre del Greco
APA, a historic Torre del Greco coral and cameo house, carves cameos from selected shells by hand and keeps a museum room at its historic seat with antique coral jewelry, cameos and Neoclassical bronze statues. The company is based on Via Cavallo in Torre del Greco, with a second address in Positano.
Best for Coral and shell cameo jewelry
Torre del Greco
Aucella has made coral jewelry and hand-carved cameos in Torre del Greco since 1892, working in red, white and pink coral alongside shell and agate cameos, pearls, turquoise and other hardstones. The firm is referenced with Assocoral and carries its own 925byAucella and Amami Pearls lines.
Best for Coral jewelry and hand-carved cameos
Torre del Greco / Italy
I Gioielli del Mare Elvido on Corso Vittorio Emanuele in Torre del Greco sells coral necklaces and cameos, with earrings too.
Best for Coral necklaces and cameos
Torre del Greco
Enzo Liverino 1894 has made coral and shell cameo jewelry in Torre del Greco since 1894, produced across five generations of the Liverino family. The company is based on Via Montedoro and references the CIBJO Coral Book and sustainable-coral standards.
Best for Coral and shell cameo jewelry
Torre del Greco / Online
Five generations of the Liverino family working the red gold of the Bay of Naples since 1894 — an atelier of coral and semi-precious sculpture with a museum of a thousand pieces gathered by Cavaliere Basilio Liverino.
Best for Coral sculpture and jewellery from the Torre del Greco tradition.
Torre del Greco / Italy
Palomba Salvatore is a jeweller on Via Sedivola in Torre del Greco working with coral and semi-precious stones.
Best for Coral and semi-precious stones
Murano, Venice
CAM Vetri d'Arte makes vases, lighting, glassware, jewelry, mirrors and sculptures using the ancient glassblowing technique from a 1900s palazzo at Piazzale Colonna in Murano. Its gallery houses a museum dedicated to glass master Pino Signoretto (1944-2017), and pieces carry a CAM certificate of originality.
Best for Murano blown glass objects and sculpture
Murano, Venice
Ferro Toso makes murrine and Murano glass jewelry, including pendants, necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets, from its workshop at Fondamenta Serenella in Murano. The company also runs hands-on murrina-making workshops for visitors under its own motto, dalla tradizione all'innovazione.
Best for Murano murrine glass jewelry
Verona / Italy
Migupottery in Verona sets out vases and bowls to look through, with jewellery among them.
Best for Vases, bowls and cups
Vico Equense / Italy
Dama Gioielli on Via Santa Sofia in Vico Equense shows its own jewellery and the work behind it.
Best for Jewellery made in the workshop
Vicenza / Italy
Aldighieri Gioielli has handcrafted gold and gemstone jewellery from its historic workshop under the porticos of Vicenza for more than 35 years, with master craftsman Paolo Aldighieri named a Master Craftsman by the Veneto Region in 2022. The atelier offers custom design, gem cutting, and repair services alongside its in-progress online shop.
Best for Gold and gemstone jewellery handcrafted under the porticos of Vicenza by Veneto
Taormina / Italy
Aute Taormina sells Sicilian ceramics and jewelry from its shop in Taormina's Piazza San Domenico, open daily from 10am to 7pm, featuring hand-painted Moor's Head sculptures, sea urchin ceramics, and pieces by artists like Stefania Boemi. The shop also ships its ceramics internationally through its online store, with insured shipping on every order.
Best for Ceramics and jewelry boutique
Alghero/Porto Cervo/Castelsardo
Bottega del Corallo works coral from Sardinia and abroad into jewelry, alongside pieces set with amethyst, tanzanite, and emerald. The shop operates from three Sardinian locations - Porto Cervo, Alghero, and Castelsardo - and also carries kilim rugs and Pattada knives.
Best for Sardinian coral jewelry
Padua / Italy
A family goldsmith working under the arcades of Via Umberto I since 1935, Burgo sets diamonds, coral, cameos and pearls in its in-house Padua workshop. Alongside new commissions it handles repairs, gemmological analysis and watch servicing for a clientele that has trusted three generations of the family.
Best for Jeweler, goldsmith, fine jewelry
Orosei
Chelos Gioielli has worked in Sardinian filigree for more than fifty years from Via Nazionale in Orosei, hand-making gold and silver jewelry using this ancient goldworking technique. The business is registered as Chelos S.a.s.
Best for Handmade sardinian filigree jewelry
Sciacca / Sicily / Online
Sciacca's master corallari — jewelry from the unique sub-fossil coral of their own sea, hand-worked as for centuries.
Best for Sciacca coral bracelets and necklaces.
Sant'Angelo, Serrara Fontana
Corallium Gioielli, founded in Sant'Angelo in 2013 by Lello Raiola, sets coral, pearls, and cameos in sterling silver and 18-karat gold using techniques Raiola learned from craftsmen in Torre del Greco. Each piece is made individually rather than cast in series, following the workshop's stated approach of one-off designs.
Best for Coral and cameo jewelry
Capoliveri, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Anna and Andrea opened this Via Roma workshop in Capoliveri in 2010, casting jewelry by the lost-wax method around natural gemstones and minerals. Andrea, a trained gemmologist, sources and cuts the stones himself, so each piece is made and sold on the island.
Best for Handmade gemstone and mineral jewelry
Valenza / Piedmont / Online
Italian high-jewelry maison founded in 1924 by goldsmith Enrico Grassi Damiani in Valenza, Piedmont, a town with a long goldsmithing tradition. Later led by his son Damiano, it grew into a group with boutiques across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.
Best for Diamond classics from Valenza's gold district.
Damiani is an Italian high-jewelry maison founded in 1924 by goldsmith Enrico Grassi Damiani in Valenza, a Piedmontese town whose goldsmithing tradition dates back generations. Enrico built a reputation among Italian aristocratic and prominent families for exacting craftsmanship. His son, Damiano, later took over the business, pushing its design language toward newer trends and broadening its reach internationally. Over a century, Damiani expanded from a single artisan workshop into a group with boutiques across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, while production has stayed rooted in Valenza. Today it remains under the stewardship of later generations of the Damiani family.
Vicenza / Italy
Daniela Vettori has hand-forged artistic gold and silver jewellery from her Piazza dei Signori workshop in Vicenza since 1981, later joined by daughter Margherita Galla's symbolic Magal line. The bottega sells finished pieces online and welcomes visitors to watch pendants and rings take shape at the bench.
Best for Bottega sells finished pieces online and welcomes visitors to watch pendants
Dorgali
Francesco Serra's Esseffe Laboratorio Orafo in Dorgali works gold (750) and silver (925) using sbalzo, cesello, and filigrana techniques, including openwork filigrana a giorno and microcast filigrana a microfusione. Pieces incorporate ruby, emerald, turquoise, and coral, among them the traditional Sardinian fede sarda ring.
Best for Sardinian silver filigree jewelry
Campo Ligure (GE)
This Campo Ligure workshop makes 925 silver filigree jewellery entirely by hand, transforming raw silver into earrings, bracelets, necklaces, tiaras and buckles to order. Campo Ligure has been a recognised centre of Ligurian filigree since the 18th century.
Best for Hand-worked silver filigree jewellery
Siracusa / Italy
Fish House Art has exhibited and sold fish-shaped sculpture, ceramics, and jewelry from established and emerging artists at its Siracusa gallery since 2002. The gallery's workshop also creates and restores fish-themed pieces on site, with a dedicated "how to buy" guide for collectors.
Best for Art & Ceramics, Fish-Themed Art, Gallery
Perugia / Italy
Forghieri Gioielleria is a historic jewellery, watch, and silverware shop that has traded in the heart of Perugia since 1926, curating Buccellati and Fabergé pieces alongside vintage and handcrafted objects. The Corso Vannucci store sells in person and through its companion online shop.
Best for Jewelry & silverware, Watches, Fine Jewellery, Silverware
Ponte Vecchio
A goldsmith's shop on the Ponte Vecchio since 1903, now run by the fourth generation of the Piccini family under Elisa Tozzi Piccini. Its ateliers produce fine and one-of-a-kind jewellery across collections such as Bloom, Intreccio and Dot, alongside a watch business.
Best for Bloom, Intreccio and Dot jewellery collections
Padua
Founded in Padua in 1950, Ghiraldin Gioielli makes jewellery by hand and sells gold, gemstones, watches, and silverware from its shop on Via Eremitani. Pieces can be bought in store or shipped across Italy through its online shop.
Best for Jewelry, watches, silverware, diamonds
Sardegna
Gioia Sarda sells handcrafted Sardinian jewelry, silver filigree and coral pieces made by hand, with a shop on Via Principe di Piemonte in Sassari. The business lists Matteo Silanus among its team and its registered headquarters in Madrid.
Best for Sardinian silver filigree jewelry
Forio
Gioielleria Bottiglieri has worked as goldsmiths and jewelers on Ischia since 1962, with the current owners representing the third generation of a family trained in the goldsmithing workshops of Torre del Greco. The Forio shop sells rings, bracelets, and watches alongside made-to-order pieces in gold and silver.
Best for Gold jewelry and watches since 1962
Valenza
Il Lingotto Gioielleria makes jewelry in 18-karat gold set with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds and aquamarine from its shop on Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi in Valenza. Founded by Giannina Migliora and Francesco Giacobbe, it is now run by Marco Giacobbe.
Best for Valenza gold and gemstone jewelry
Alghero
La Corallina works Corallium rubrum, the red coral associated with Alghero, from its workshop at Via Roma 79-81. Alongside coral pieces, it also offers Sardinian filigree (filigrana sarda) and cameo work.
Best for Red coral jewelry and filigree
Tremiti Islands / Online
Lo Scrigno hand-makes silver and natural-stone jewelry on the Tremiti Islands, pairing sterling silver with turquoise, coral, and other stones in pieces like its Girocollo necklace. The small studio sells its collections through its own online shop with shipping across Italy.
Best for Jewelry, Silver, Handmade
Sardegna
M.G. di Moi Giancarlo has worked as a goldsmith since 1975 in Barisardo, Sardinia, hand-making Sardinian filigree jewelry in 18-karat gold and 925 silver. The workshop's pieces include traditional rings, kokko amulets, buttons and rosaries.
Best for Sardinian gold and silver filigree
Trissino / Veneto / Online
Gold jewelry house founded in Trissino, Veneto: Giuseppe Bicego opened a chain-making workshop there in 1958, and his son Marco launched his own eponymous line in 2000. All pieces are still handcrafted at the Trissino atelier by more than 60 goldsmiths.
Best for Hand-coiled gold jewelry.
Marco Bicego's roots trace to 1958, when Giuseppe Bicego opened a small workshop specializing in gold chains in Trissino, a town in Italy's Vicenza province with a long goldsmithing tradition. Marco, his son, spent childhood summers in his father's atelier watching the craftsmen work and later apprenticed there himself. In 2000 he launched his own eponymous collection, reworking his father's classic chain techniques into a more organic, sculptural style. The brand's signature Marrakech collection grew directly out of that workshop: Marco has said the coiled, twisted-strand bracelets were inspired by an imperfectly finished chain he noticed on his father's factory floor, which he refined into a deliberate design, with fine 18-karat gold strands hand-wound around a core to form soft, dune-like curves. The Trissino headquarters, where the company remains based, now employs more than 60 goldsmiths who hand-finish every piece; the company states that all Marco Bicego jewelry is made in that atelier rather than outsourced. The combination of a father's traditional chain-making workshop and a son's reinterpretation of it into a contemporary aesthetic is central to how the brand describes its own history, distinguishing it from larger industrial gold-jewelry manufacturers also based in the Veneto region's goldsmithing districts.
Sardegna
Gioielli Marrocu, registered as F. Marrocu & Figli SNC, hand-weaves fine gold and silver threads into filigree rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings in 18kt gold and 925 silver, sometimes set with Sardinian red coral or emerald. The family workshop produces traditional Sardinian patterns including Su Coccu, Fede Sarda, nido d'ape and Corbula.
Best for Sardinian gold and silver filigree jewelry
Tuscany–Paris / Online
An Italian designer who launched his eponymous label in 2021 between Paris and his native Tuscany, producing genderless collections made with local artisans; a 2022 LVMH Prize semi-finalist and 2024 finalist, he also designed a jewellery collaboration with Japan's TASAKI.
Best for Sculptural jewelry
Niccolò Pasqualetti launched his own eponymous label in 2021, splitting his work between Paris and his native Tuscany, where his collections are produced with local artisans. His design language is built around androgynous, genderless clothing that draws on the geometry of natural forms, combining relaxed, fluid silhouettes with sculptural jewelry pieces that blur conventional lines between menswear and womenswear -- a reinterpretation of Italian tailoring traditions rather than a rejection of them. In the same year he founded the label, Pasqualetti received the Franca Sozzani Award. He went on to become a semi-finalist for the LVMH Prize in 2022 and returned as a finalist in 2024, one of the industry's most closely watched showcases for emerging designers. He has also received the Camera Moda Fashion Trust award in both 2023 and 2024. Beyond his own ready-to-wear collections, Pasqualetti has extended his sculptural approach into a dedicated jewellery collaboration with the Japanese jeweller TASAKI, marketed under the joint TASAKI NICCOLÒ PASQUALETTI name. He has also appeared as a guest designer at Pitti Uomo.
Via Grazie 28
Oltre l'Oro is a goldsmith and jeweller on Via Grazie in central Brescia, designing and repairing pieces in its own workshop. It sells contemporary and classic jewellery alongside made-to-order commissions.
Best for Handmade and bespoke jewellery
Scanno
Orafi Rotolo has made gold and silver jewelry in the Scanno tradition since 1884, under master goldsmith Francesco Rotolo. In 2012 the workshop patented Il Gioiello del Tombolo, a design pairing tombolo lace-work by Federica with goldsmithing.
Best for Scanno filigree goldsmithing
Duomo
Paolo Penko works in the Renaissance goldsmith tradition, forging pieces by hand from rings and pendants to bas-reliefs and reissued Florentine florins. Several designs draw on the city's monuments, such as the Baptistery and Santa Maria Novella, and the family runs two boutiques near the Duomo.
Best for Hand-forged Renaissance-style jewellery
Sorrento / Italy
Stinga Tarsia is a third-generation Sorrento inlay workshop where brothers Roberto and Franco hand-craft jewelry boxes, music boxes, and frames using nineteenth-century marquetry techniques. The family sells from their showroom on Via Luigi de Maio and ships worldwide through their online shop.
Best for Hand-inlaid jewelry boxes and music boxes using 19th-century marquetry techniques
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