Gucci presents the third act of Hortus Deliciarum, the High Jewelry collection designed by Creative Director Alessandro Michele. Composed of unique pieces divided into five themes, this new encounter with the world of jewelry gathers together the passions and obsessions of an imaginary Grand Tour. Starting in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing to the 1970s, this fantastical journey is suspended in time and space as it creates a ‘memory of memories’.
Named Hortus Deliciarum, Latin for ‘Garden of Delights’, Gucci’s High Jewelry collection draws on the symbolic motifs that are dear to Alessandro Michele and Gucci, taken from the extensive and multifarious canon of the House’s iconography.
Made of unique pieces divided into five themes, the new collection is a creative ode to specific historical and architectural eras suspended in time and space. The journey, inspired by the Grand Tour, reveals romantic, maximalist jewels made with mastery. Like a passionate collector, Alessandro Michele writes an allegory that holds within dreams, experiences, stories, and secrets showcased as five chapters of a travel diary in the shape of “souvenirs in the form of a jewel”.
The High Jewelry collection combines Italian craftsmanship with the romantic and poetic narrative of Gucci. Each gemstone has been fastidiously chosen for its quality and uniqueness, speaking to the painstaking attention to detail that Gucci creations are known for.
