★★★★★3 days ago
Light catches every fold
The hammered surface does this lovely thing where it never sits flat, so even a slight turn of the head sends little flickers of light across the silver. I keep catching my own reflection in shop windows.
A hoop with the light caught in it
Hugo Caesar Tassi cast Argentea for the Iulia collection — a small, substantial hoop whose whole character lives in its texture.
The band is wide and chunky for so compact a hoop, and across it the silver is worked into an organic, crumpled relief — like foil pressed and smoothed by hand, a landscape of tiny folds and ridges. It is deliberately irregular, so no two glances catch the same facet, and the surface flickers as you move.
A neat hinged latch clicks shut behind the lobe, holding the hoop close. There is nothing applied, nothing set — only silver and the way it has been shaped. It is quiet, modern jewellery built to be worn daily and to look better with wear.
Fine silver, honestly bright
Polished 999 silver, cool and luminous, chosen for the clean light it throws.
The metal is fine silver, bright and silver-white, never warmed toward gold. Across the hammered relief it reads with real depth — high points flashing, recesses holding shadow — so the texture stays legible at any distance.
Argentea is offered in a single finish, Argento: the true polished silver of the band itself, with no plating and no second tone to soften it.
