Maitea by Lorena Grippa

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Lorena Grippa was born in 1976 in Valtellina, in the north of Italy, with paternal origin from Naples.
Her background is financial-economic; after the degree in Bocconi University, she successfully made many experiences in listed companies, in the investor relations field.



She has always had an unconscious desire of doing something creative in Jewellery making sector and working with materials by hands, seeing a creative idea transformed into a finished piece.



With a deep passion in Jewels, she started designing rings while still working on her main job in finance. Eventually she managed to dedicate herself full time to designing and hand making her jewels.



She learned working with metals, sitting, day in day out, on the bench next to a master jeweller, creating her first collection, without an academic path, facing many difficulty, item by item.



She launched her first collection of gold Jewels with the name brand MAITEA at La Rinascente Duomo in Milan, May 2016.



THE JEWELS
The collection is focused on the essentiality of forms and on the truth of materials.
Jewels MAITEA are thought to be worn, they have inside a latent beauty that will expressed itself in contact with the human skin.



MAITEA is not the result of an industrial and standard production but of a quality handmade production that, formally, honors the essentiality, but also the irregularity you can find in nature.



Features of the collection is the technical research of materials: artisan treatment of surfaces, forged textures, unfinished touches, exposed joints.



This strong care for details gives the jewel an emotional content and forms, exciting to the eyes.

“I’m unconsciously attracted by delicate and essential forms, before giving them personality, through a strong contrast in volumes, thickness and relative dimensions, till to work with free and sculptural forms.



"This in an ongoing process, that nowadays I rarely start on paper, but that I develop through the instinct of my hands and eyes”.



THE HAND MAKING PROCESS
All the hand making process (gold melting, wire drawing, forcing, cutting, soldering, oxidation, polishing) is done inside the workshop in Milan near the Duomo, where two artisans work along the designer.



The cut and the setting of precious stones are given in outsourcing to stone setters, under the supervision of the designer, according to the features of the design.



Pieces are uniquely different from each other, not perfectly repeatable



FEATURES OF MAITEA JEWEL
- Stones used are cut flat according to the design (the jewel is made around the specific shape of stone)

- Achromatic stones are set on gold elements (tone on tone): quartz, agata, leuco-sapphire, opale, cornelian

- Relevant use of transparent stones (cristallo di rocca) through them the skin is the protagonist

- Over soldered elements

- Exposed joints

- Artisanal treatment of surfaces (hammered, forged textures)

- Irregularities in the setting of stones

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