Gioielleria
Classic jewels
Classic, that is, timeless, which defies the passage of time and maintains its charm unaltered; it is declined through the most varied forms to give life to necklaces, brooches, bracelets, earrings and rings.
It is the jewel that sees the use of diamonds in the first place, but also of gems such as emeralds, sapphires, rubies, mounted in gold on light wefts that create motifs inspired by nature, flowering branches, scrolls, bows, ramages of leaves and corollas.
The specialty of the company Gaito remains the "invisible joints" with the calibrated use of gold in such quantities as to ensure the precious stones a perfect seal and enhance the light and the cut of the diamonds, in the different frames and in the sinuous trend of the pavé that enhance surfaces entirely covered with diamonds. Jewels whose names evoke the glories of a bygone era, sometimes inextricably linked to the character for which they were created, such as the Principessa di Piemonte earrings or the Collier Doris, which alternates curved and opposing lines, white gold segments, which at regular distances they enhance the purity of a solitaire.
Fancy jewels
The definition "fantasy jewel", historically refers to the 40s, a time of international economic crisis, in which the masters of jewelry in Europe and overseas dedicated themselves to imaginative works and original creations, approaching new materials, alloys and non-noble metals , semiprecious stones, resins, enamels, bakelite and plastic materials, open to European and American modernism and the role of fashion in women's accessories.
In Gaito's jewels all this translates into freer inventiveness, which leaves room for lightened forms, forays into the plant world, with a predominance of brooches. Linked in particular to the cocktail dress, but not only, the brooches become an indispensable ornament at all hours of the day, as it appears in the infinite variations of the "bow" model, which already introduced amethysts in the drawings of the 40s, garnets, topazes and semiprecious stones in the buds, in the pavé of the flowered corollas, in the knots and feathers that envelop the bouquets.
Romantic jewels
Delicate ornaments are played on the fineness of the gold lines of the lowest title, "old cut" diamonds, semiprecious stones, such as turquoise, opals, tourmalines, amethysts. With their soft or brighter colors, and a minute workmanship that focuses on the details of the links of a chain or on the pink shade of gold, pendants, earrings, rings give shape to jewels with a retro flavor, of romantic inspiration, in which the themes, symbols, techniques used are a thing of the past and at the same time seem to be made on purpose to enhance the freshness of youth.
Treasures from the sea
Pliny the Elder in the ninth book of Naturalis Historia writes: "pearls occupy the first place and the most eminent place among all things of value: they reach us through so many seas, through lands so distant and boundless and only so ardent".
Known for more than two thousand years as an emblem of splendor and purity, these "creatures" generated by the sea have always been enveloped in an aura of seduction that has spanned millennia and reaches today intact.
Today the pearl is grown in the seas of the East and involves the use of sophisticated technologies. The pearls of Gaito jewelry, from the most classic choker, a timeless accessory of bon ton, to the frames that exploit the bizarre and extravagant shapes formerly present in nature, return from time to time the magic of a jewel that symbolizes femininity.
Also coral, another living treasure of the sea, from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, with its variety of colors, from pink angel skin, to bright red, up to black, is the source of inspiration for the creation of new marine jewels with notes that highlight the material, unique, increasingly rare and precious.
Original creations in silver
Alongside the traditional types of jewels that constitute as many milestones in the secular history of the company, today Maria Gaito develops her creativity with a more contemporary and design-related approach. Free space, therefore, for geometric or abstract shapes, stylized lines, hand-worked silver juxtaposed with semi-precious and semi-precious stones.
The ornamental repertoire has no constraints, it sweeps freely in the various artistic fields and the result is unique pieces, with a highly personalized character. They are jewels that meet the taste of young women looking for a jewel that can express a mood, a personality trait, with an unrepeatable touch of style that makes it wearable in everyday life and at the same time original and refined.