Italian - Designer | May 1, 1940 -
I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang.
Elsa Peretti
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Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.
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I design for the working girl.
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A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
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I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.
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You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.
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I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.
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I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
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I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.
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I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.
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I can't copy nature.
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I always write in pencil, so I can erase.
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