A Jewelry Line Inspired by a Design Family's Heirlooms

Ilaria Icardi's debut collection of gold pendants and signet rings draws on her father's most treasured creations Two gold chain necklaces from Ilaria Icardi's first collection, strung with three of the line's pendants: a gold plaquette, a diopside stone in a gold setting and a gold astronaut figurine Feb.

10, 2021.For more than three decades, the Italian designer Ilaria Icardi resisted following in the footsteps of her father, Umberto Icardi, by becoming a jeweler Icardi's debut collection is a concise and deeply personal offering inspired by her own miscellanea, including the jewelry her father made for himself, pieces from the Emmeti archives and trinkets she's collected on her travels to Japan, India and North and South America At the heart of the collection is a reproduction of her father's beloved gold chain necklace, which she inherited.

The eclectic designs are united by a weighty, retro feel - Icardi sees the '70s as the heyday of her father's career - as well as by brilliant yellow 18-karat gold Some keepsakes were harder to reproduce than others including the uniquely shaped uncut mineral-green diopside pendant encased in a heavy gold setting that her father gave to her mother as an engagement present in 1969. . Source