Vanitas and the Codognato: Tango Alpha
There are so many jewelry lines out there, but there are only a few which are legends of grandeur that last throughout the generations. While planning my summer trip to the art events in Europe, I was informed from one of our insiders at Connaissance des Arts Magazine of the small Codognata family-owned jewelry business in Venice. This operation makes some of the most over-the-top Vanitas pieces out there. Jean Cocteau, Miucca Prada, Nureyev, and a select group of others have all acquired custom items from the Codognato family. In brief summation these jewels remind the wealthy folk of their own feeble mortality while still maintaining hedonistic materialism through exclusive designs. Why not? I'd love to have a skull ring with diamond eyes and teeth to help me take on the face of death. Beautify the morbid and life seems even more luxurious! Never mind the “innovative” pseudo-punk skull and cross bones that we see in the NYC club scene, go to Venice and get the real bling from one of the true originators.
In Love & Memories
-TANGO ALPHA
+Gioielleria Attilio Codognato, 1295 San Marco, Venice +39 041 522 5042
+Vanitas-Inspired Artwork: Angelo Filomeno: Galerie Lelong: New York/Zurich
posted by Dr. Boris at 1:24 PM
2 Comments:
This stuff makes the Pope's ring look like it came from the bottom of a McD's Happy Meal Box.
Bow to the Codognato!
Art and science, in all of their manifold expressions, are the recognized symbols of etherialization. In a positive symbiosis these functions re-enforce each other and flow forth in a great variety of activities; for life is in the living, and even the highest by-products of life are only incentives for more intense modes of living, not substitutes for it. Accordingly, all the sacrifices that have helped bring us into existence come to nothing if life is not its own reward. Neither augmented power nor unlimited material wealth can atone for a day that lacks a glimpse of beauty, a flash of joy, a quickening and sharing of fellowship
Now go out and get yourself some fuckin Bling!!!!!!!!!
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