The story of the Bucatini Ring

After working in fashion for many years, moving at its pace and constantly following deadlines, my move to Bergamo and the gradual distance from Milan forced me to stop. I needed time to understand what I wanted to become and which direction I wanted to take.

I won’t pretend that phase was brief. It lasted almost a year, full of doubts and indecision, but somewhere underneath it all I knew that sooner or later I would have to choose. I felt the need to take a path that was truly mine, one I could recognize as such.

Enrolling at Scuola Orafa Ambrosiana gave me the chance to slow down, learn something new and do it through my hands, my mind and my concentration. I could not have created Àpini without that experience. It gave me a great deal on a human level, through the relationships I built with my classmates and teachers, but it also helped me understand that slowness and precision had to become part of my process.

I attended three courses: professional goldsmithing, wax modeling and gemology. As the final project for the wax modeling course, we were asked to create a piece of jewelry of our choice. That is how I began designing this ring. I still had no idea what it would become, but I knew I wanted to wear it myself.

I started with sketches and drawings on paper, then carved the entire model by hand from a block of wax. Lost wax casting is an ancient technique and, to me, one of the most fascinating. The model is encased in a refractory material, then during casting the wax melts away, leaving an empty space that is filled with metal.

There is something special about that moment: something fragile and temporary disappears and becomes something solid, something made to last.

So some time later, I decided to revisit the design and redraw it in CAD. This allowed me to make it lighter and cleaner, while keeping the original idea intact, along with its soft line and wave like movement.

I am very happy with the final result. I chose to make it in 18ct gold with natural diamonds, in its most precious version. It is already available and will soon become part of the Àpini collection.

Looking at it now, I can already see many of the ideas that would later become part of the brand: the search for the right proportions, the balance between precision and lightness, and the desire to create jewelry that is truly made to be worn.

It did not have a name yet, but its long, fluid shape already reminded me of something familiar. Only later, as Àpini began to take shape, did it become the Bucatini Ring.