Pomellato

Italian jewelers. The Milanese company was founded in 1948 and nearly twenty years later (1967) was transformed into a designer brand through the meeting of minds of Luigi Signori and Pino Rabolini. It takes its name from the dappled (pomellato) pony that was chosen as the brand’s logo. In the 1970s they went from producing classic chains to pendants made of gold and precious stones like The King and The Bear, that were destined to become Pomellato’s mascots. The company has had a shop in Via San Pietro in Milan since 1982, and started opening shops all over the world in the mid-1980s. They started producing silver pieces in 1982 and then watches in 1989. In the 1990s they started using diamonds and high-carat cabochon cut colored stones in impressive settings.
&Quad;2002. Pomellato, a sponsor of WWF Italia, launched the Earth can save Man project in favor of safeguarding the 100 eco-environments most at risk in the world. Queen Rania of Jordan is the patron of the initiative. In the fall of the same year Pomellato launched Stress, a limited edition women’s watch which is one of the brand’s most recent successes. In 1994 Pomellato had already declared “an undertaking to protect our natural heritage,” creating DoDo, a line of coordinating jewelry with the aim of telling a story and communicating universal messages. DoDo creations owe their name to the long-extint bird.
&Quad;2002, July. Pomellato opened their third store in Japan, the second in Tokyo in the Ginza area. The enthusiastic response to the young DoDo brand led the management to test out their first flagship store in Via Filangieri, Naples.
&Quad;2003. At the end of 2002 the company had a turnover of 67.3 million euros, representing an increase of 22.5 percent compared to 2001. The DoDo brand alone registered a 47% increase in sales, and overseas sales rose by 32%. The most successful market was Japan, which provided nearly a 50% rise in income.
&Quad;2003, February. A Sotheby’s exhibition marked the debut of Pomellato USA, which planned to open 60 new concessions and their first flagship store within two years, in addition to distributing their products in Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, Greenwich, Boston, San Francisco, and Aspen.
&Quad;Following the good results of the Naples experiment, Pomellato opened more DoDo stores in Galeries Lafayette in Paris and Bloomingdales, New York.