Pintaldi, Angela Carruba (1960)
Pitalidi,1960
Angela Carruba(1960) is Jewelry designer. With an artist’s soul, she can transform natural elements into precious wearable sculptures. She uses stones that recall her homeland of Sicily, and the southern countries where she has lived, Morocco, India, Mexico, and the Italian island of Pantelleria: her materials are as diverse as river pebbles and rock crystals, rough aquamarines and nuggets of gold, sea coral, amber and obsidian.
Jewelry unique, because it keeps the original form of the materials used.
When Palermo became too small for her she moved to Milan and Paris. An opportune meeting with Hélène de Rothschild and the American journalist Polly Mellen introduced her to a sophisticated international circle. She produces her pieces in limited numbers, true to the craftsmanly and artistic aspect of her work, which are sold in a few exclusive outlets around the world: her Milan showroom, Bergdorf Goodman in New York, and some Parisian art galleries. She has chosen not to communicate her work through advertising, but through books entrusted to famous photographers, where she herself models and acts as a spokeswoman for her jewelry. The Mexican photographer Leo Matiz dedicated a book to her where Angela, thanks to her extraordinary resemblance, brings Frida Kahlo back to life.
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