Carolina Bucci

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Carolina Bucci
Born
Carolina Bucci

October 1976 (age 46–47)
Florence, Italy
NationalityItalian
Education Fashion Institute of Technology
OccupationJewelry designer
Known forFlorentine Finish (Frosted Gold) and Woven gold jewelry
LabelCarolina Bucci
Website http://www.carolinabucci.com

Carolina Bucci (born October 1976) is an Italian fine jewelry designer. Born in Florence, Italy, she lives between London and New York City and is the first female to lead her family's jewelry company.

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Early life

Carolina Bucci was born in October 1976, [1] in Florence, Italy.

Career

Bucci is the 4th generation in her family line of fine jewelers, which began when her great-grandfather, Ferdinando Bucci, opened a workshop in Florence, Italy, specializing in the sale and repair of gentlemen's pocket watches. [2] He eventually began to make bespoke gold chains to accessorize his clients' timepieces, and from there he moved into the production of fine jewelry. His son, Fosco, took over the business in 1920, by which point they had gained success across Italy, and moved the showroom to Piazza Santo Stefano, next to Florence's Ponte Vecchio. [3] [2] After the Second World War, her father grew the business internationally, particularly in the US and Japan, whilst continuing to anchor the manufacture of the jewelry in the family's Florentine workshops. [2]

Design

Following her graduation from FIT where she studied fine arts and jewelry design, Bucci returned to Florence where she launched her first collections: Lucky (a reinvention of the friendship bracelets she made as a child), Woven, a reinvention of centuries-old Florentine textile looms to weave gold and silk threads. She also specializes in the Florentine Finish, her signature gold hammering technique which can be seen throughout her collections, and which she introduced to Audemars Piguet during their collaborations on the Frosted Gold Royal Oak watches. [4] [2] Bucci credits her Lucky bracelet's appearance in Sex and the City with launching her career as a designer more broadly. [2]

A selection of her designs are in the permanent jewelry collection of the Palazzo Pitti museum in Florence. [5] [6]

2018 also saw the launch of the FORTE beads collection, which debuted in Las Vegas at the Couture Jewelry Show. [3] [7] [8]

In 2019 Bucci released a series of hand blown glasses, made in collaboration with the Murano glass maker Laguna B, as well as hand carved Carrara marble spheres and the application of her Florentine Finish to homeware pieces. [9] Since then, she has collaborated with fellow Florentine brands Pineider and Loretta Caponi.

Audemars Piguet

In 2016 she announced a collaboration with Audemars Piguet, to redesign their Royal Oak watch with her Florentine finish to celebrate the watch's 40th anniversary. [10] [11] [2] For her second collaboration with Audemars Piguet in 2018, Bucci once again applied her signature Florentine Finish to the Limited Edition Royal Oak, this time in 18k yellow gold, alongside a silver toned mirror dial, in place of the traditional Tapisserie. [12] From there, in 2020 she created the K.I.S.S (Keep It Super Simple) collection inspired by a fascination with the inner workings of a watch, sold through selected AP Houses and Boutiques worldwide until December 2021 and a part of Carolina Bucci’s core collection. For her third and most recent collaboration in 2022, Bucci designed a limited edition Black Ceramic Selfwinding Royal Oak with a multi-colored mirror effect dial paying tribute to the iconic Tapisserie design.

Retail

In 2007 she established her London flagship store and in 2018 relocated it to 22 Motcomb Street. [13] [14] Her first flagship in her hometown of Florence opened July 2023, steps away from the historic Ponte Vecchio. Carolina Bucci jewelry is available as well on their online store carolinabucci.com, and at exclusive retail partners Fourtané, Club21, Net-A-Porter, and Matches Fashion.

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  5. ↑ "Laprendo Presents the Carolina Bucci Collection". Luxury Insider. 17 September 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
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