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Leonardo Davighi & Filippo Sanpaolesi

  • CōDICEDS
  • Jewellery maker
  • Rome, Italy
  • Rising Star
Leonardo Davighi & Filippo Sanpaolesi Jewellery maker
Contact
Italian, English, French, German, Spanish
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+39 3393989881
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Motifs from floor to finger

  • • Leonardo and Filippo make rings and cufflinks inspired by ancient art forms
  • • They craft 'stones' either from metal or from synthetic clays
  • • Their rings are fashioned with a mechanism to easily replace the stones

Leonardo Davighi and Filippo Sanpaolesi’s backgrounds could not be more different. One is a former designer who, at 40, turned to archaeology. The other worked as a communication manager for a big company, and became restless in his job. When they met and decided to start a business together, the choice fell on rings. Rings have been Leonardo’s passion for a long time, and Filippo became charmed, too. “I was fascinated by the big, eye-catching rings sold in Turkey, where I often travel to work on archaeological sites,” Leonardo explains. From this, they came up with the idea of creating modern jewellery pieces – rings and cufflinks – characterised by stones that can be replaced thanks to a patented mechanism of their own invention. Thus, the very same ring can assume different forms, according to the mood, occasion and look.

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Works

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C05 Bronze, Marble C05 Red

This is a bronze ring with a replaceable stone. The latter is made with polymer clay and inspired by the polychrome marbles used during the Roman Empire to decorate buildings. The ring can be customised, choosing between burnished bronze or burnished silver for the base, and there are 23 stones available to choose from for this model.

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Ring SMT 1

This is a soft-hammered bronze ring with a stone inspired by the precious mosaics of San Marco’s floors in Venice. The stone is created with polymer clay, using a revised and adapted scagliola-type technique.

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C05 Silver with Omonoia C05 Bronze

This ring of soft-hammered, burnished silver has a stone of engraved bronze. The stone has the inscription of Omonoia, often used on Greek and Roman coins to represent political unity, family bonds and love of spouses.

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Pavimenta Replaceable Stones collection

The Pavimenta collection consists of soft-hammered bronze or burnished silver rings, with replaceable stones made of polymer clay. The stone decors are inspired by the Roman polychrome marbles of the Renaissance, often used for decorating sacred buildings.

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Three bronze rings

Here are three soft-hammered bronze rings with polymer clay stones created with a revised and adapted scagliola technique. The inspiration for the stone decor comes from the precious black and white marble inlays of San Miniato al Monte in Florence, with geometric figures, lions and unicorns, hawks and doves, and the Zodiac of life. From left to right: rings C08 Bronze, C05 Bronze and C03 Bronze with replaceable stones San Miniato C08, C05, and C03 Black.

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