New Jewel Just for You

NOVICA, in association with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-kind gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by master artists and artisans throughout the world. Strung by hand on a stainless steel coil, beads and gemstones spiral around the wrist. This wide bracelet juxtaposes tiger’s eye and agate with spheres of mogno wood or Bolivian mahogany. It comes from the vision of Brazilian designer Claudia Fioravanti. Artisan Info: “My name is Claudia Fioravanti. I was born in the city of Sao Paulo, in 1951. From very early, at four or five years of age, my artistic vein was showing strongly. I was already interested in music and asked my parents to let me study piano. I also liked dancing a lot. My sisters and I made up stories about ballerinas and we imitated the girls on children’s programs on TV. Later, in school, my art works always stood out, and I really enjoyed those classes. As an adolescent, one of my pastimes was to write poetry and essays. I found it easy to recite poetry and I was good at decoration. “My parents always appreciated every kind of art. My maternal grandfather was impassioned by photography and he filmed home movies of the family and our trips. My grandmother and I went to the cinema and often attended the same film twice, enhancing the first viewing with the second. Frequently, Grandpa came home with an armload of new records and we’d spend the afternoon together, listening to them one by one. We had books on many

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