Mixing and matching
Three years ago Fabio Salini collaborated with the furniture-designing Campana brothers to create jewellery that united gold and diamonds with bamboo and straw – just one example of the jeweller’s penchant for unexpected combinations. Since then he has expanded his repertoire with new designs of his own that include a blue stingray-leather collar with a 21-carat blue sapphire, and a carbon-fibre necklace with delicate white pearls.
“Every piece I create is a balance of different materials, proportions, and colours,” says Salini, who offers his one-of-a-kind pieces through his boutique in Rome. He’s particularly passionate about coral. “I love coral in all its shades of red, and especially the primitive branches,” he says of a series that includes the earrings of branch coral, kunzites, diamonds, and gold shown here.
