Nardi
Country | |
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City | Venice |
Era | c.1920s |
Description
Specialties
1920s
- Giulio Nardi founded Nardi in the Piazza San Marco.
- Techniques inspired 18th-century Venetian goldsmiths.
1931
- Began to make brooches inspired by the Venetian Moretto.
- Alberto Nardi took over from Giulio Nardi.
Famous for
- Blackamoor brooches.
- Inspired by Othello – the Moor of Venice a symbol of purity and love.
- Carved from
- Ebony
- Sardonyx
- Chalcedony
- Many celebrity clients.