CAROLINA BUCCI
Bucci Ferdinando & Carolina
Piazza Santo Stefano, 1
50100 Firenze (FI)
Italia
Italian Registration No.: 751 FI (assigned 28-2-1980)
Manufacturer of jewellery. The business was founded in 1885, by Carolina Bucci’s great-grandfather, Ferdinando Bucci, who opened a workshop in Florence specializing in the sale and repair of gentlemen’s pocket watches. Bucci soon began to design gold chains and from there he moved into the production of fine jewellery.
The business passed to Ferdinando's son, Fosco, in 1920. The workshop was one of the most influential in Florence and the business continued to grow as a supplier of fine jewellery across the whole of Italy. Around this time Fosco Bucci also moved the showroom to Piazza Santo Stefano, next to Florence’s fashionable Ponte Vecchio, which remains to this day the city’s traditional hub of artisans and goldsmiths.
After the Second World War, Carolina Bucci’s father, also called Ferdinando, picked up where his father had left off and found an export market for the firms output, particularly in the US and Japan.
The company is now in the hands of the fourth generation. Carolina is a noted jewellery designer who studied Fine Arts and Jewellery Design in New York, before returning to Florence. A selection of her designs is showcased in the permanent jewellery collection of the Palazzo Pitti Museum in Florence.
Carolina Bucci also maintains a showroom at 4 Motcomb Street, London.
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