Italian mid-century design gets celebrated constantly in furniture and industrial design, but Italian jewellery from the same period gets talked about far less outside specialist circles. Laurana’s enamelled bangle is a useful corrective: the same postwar confidence in bold form and colour that defined Italian product design shows up here too, just applied to something worn on the wrist instead of sitting on a desk.<\/p>\n
Where the Scandinavian pieces in this collection tend toward restraint and the natural colour of silver itself, this bangle leans into enamel’s saturated colour range, a distinctly Italian design instinct: form matters, but so does colour.<\/p>\n
Why Italian mid-century jewellery deserves more attention than it gets.<\/strong> It sits in an odd gap: not old enough to be conventional antique jewellery, not famous enough as a design category to command the same collector interest as Italian furniture or glass from the same decades.<\/p>\n What to look for.<\/strong> The enamel should be glossy and fully intact with no hairline cracking, since enamelled pieces are always more fragile than plain metalwork.<\/p>\n This piece was part of a small, genuinely personal collection of mid-century and antique jewellery, gathered over years rather than acquired for resale. It has since sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Italian mid-century design gets celebrated constantly in furniture and industrial design, but Italian jewellery from the same period gets talked about far less outside specialist circles. Laurana’s enamelled bangle is a useful corrective: the same postwar confidence in bold form and colour that defined Italian product design shows up here too, just applied to something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[78],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-263","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-jewellery","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n