Giampiero Bodino Showcases Jewels in Painterly Style at Spencer House

PORTRAITS OF LADIES: For the first photography exhibition showcasing his one-of-a-kind jewels, Giampiero Bodino wanted to highlight Italy — but steer away from the obvious. “I didn’t want the Tower of Pisa, St. Mark’s Square or the Coliseum. What I did want was another angle on Italy, different landscapes, colors and surfaces,” said the bearded Italian jeweler, who looked every inch the Victorian gentleman as he pointed to a series of Guido Taroni photographs on display at London’s Spencer House. The show, Beauty Is my Favourite Colour, is filled with painterly portraits of 15 ageless Italian beauties — most of them old friends of Bodino’s — wearing his big, dramatic jewelry: Long earrings made from sparkling fish and bubbles, necklaces with multiple colored crucifixes and collars shining with gemstones as big and bright as gumdrops. There’s Martina Mondadori Sartogo in velvet against a patterned Lorenzo Mongiardino; Bianca di Savoia Aosta Arrivabene and two of her daughters against the milky blue skies and pale lagoon of Venice; Maria Mantero swathed in russet fabric inside a Calabrian canyon, and the former Giorgio Armani model Antonia Dell’Atte looking ethereal alongside a frozen waterfall in Bormio in the Italian Alps. Other locations include Carrara, with a model standing

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