Bulgari B.Zero1 ring Four bands 18kt white gold original

Greek silversmith Sotirios Voulgaris arrived in Rome in 1881 and set up his own shop there in 1884, calling it Bulgari, an Italianization of his last name (in the brand's logo, it's styled BVLGARI, using the classical Latin alphabet in a nod to ancient Roman culture). In 1905, he opened the company’s flagship boutique on Rome’s Via dei Condotti. Since then, Bulgari has looked to Rome as a source of reference for its fanciful and decidedly romantic designs for necklaces, bracelets, earrings and other accessories.

Although the iconic jewelry house found success with its silverwork and Art Deco designs, popular through the 1920s, Bulgari’s signature style — bold, often using yellow gold embellished with big colorful gemstones — began to emerge when Sotirios’s sons inherited the business, in 1932.

The brand truly hit its stride in the dolce vita era of the 1950s and ’60s, when the founder’s grandsons Paolo, Gianni and Nicola Bulgari decisively departed from demure traditional styles to develop the house’s exuberant multi-gem looks, attracting celebrity collectors like Elizabeth Taylor.

In the 1940s, Bulgari debuted perhaps its most famous design, the Serpenti bracelet watch. The piece’s snakelike coils were made possible by the tubogas jewelry technique, which links a flexible series of thin horizontal bands. Both the sleek, modern tubogas construction and the sinuous snake motif continue to be synonymous with the Bulgari brand. 

On 1stDibs, the collection of vintage Bulgari jewelry includes rings, pendant necklaces, watches and other accessories.

Antonietta De Marchi was born and lives in Rome. She studied at the Academy of Goldsmith Arts in Rome and then at RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts) where she specialized in sculpture and installation. and installation. Since 2012 she has chosen to make her work available at the Vatican Liturgical Office. Among the many works, she has created the ring "Piscatorio" for Pope Francis now preserved in the "Treasure of the Sistine Chapel". His production also includes the creation of the three monumental amphorae for the Vatican Basilica of St. Peter and used by the Pope during the Easter rite. He also restored the most important jewel preserved in the Vatican: the Tiara of Pope Pius IX donated by Queen Isabella of Spain in 1854. "AdTe jewels" is her innovative brand of jewelry and fine art with a strong and unmistakable identity. Wearing these jewels is like taking medicine, an antidote to mediocrity, indifference, addiction, and alienation. The ingredients of our medicine to heal are brazen beauty, the story that remind us that we are never alone and the courage to be ourselves here and now aiming for infinity. The creative work has always combined with his inexhaustible passion for ancient art buying, collecting and selling objects of art and antiques, especially of Italian manufacture.