From the beginning, Pomellato’s Nudo was defined by a single, quietly radical idea: the naked stone. No excess, no distraction— just a gem allowed to speak entirely for itself. 25 years on, that founding gesture has not been abandoned. It has been deepened. The anniversary collection does not look back so much as it looks inward, asking what colour, contrast, and the intimacy of skin-worn jewellery can still reveal.
The answer, it turns out, is quite a lot. At the heart of the new Nudo Rivière necklaces—crafted in rose and white gold—is the Clessidra cut, a double-faced form that draws light from two directions simultaneously, allowing each stone to sit closer to the skin while appearing to glow from within. London blue and sky blue topazes cluster alongside delicate diamond pavé circles, the colours shifting against each other like weather. A flexible rose gold chain moves with the body rather than against it, so the piece never announces itself. It simply becomes part of you.
A second parure works in deeper registers: rich purple amethysts alongside green peridots, each cut with Nudo’s distinctive 57 irregular facets, appear to float within their diamond-set frames. The asymmetry of size and placement creates a sense of movement—as if the colours are not fixed but alive, shifting across the skin with every turn.
The Nudo Toi et Moi ring distils this into a single gesture: a larger amethyst paired with a smaller diamond pavé element, proportion doing the work that ornamentation might otherwise overcomplicate. Matching earrings extend the conversation, each piece linked to the next through a shared logic of scale and interplay.
Scale, in fact, is one of the collection’s quieter revelations. By combining four stone sizes—mini, petit, classic, maxi— along a single necklace, Pomellato creates a rhythm that feels organic rather than engineered, the way colour moves in nature rather than on a mood board.
The Clessidra cut reinforces this: two faces, each enhancing depth and brightness, each drawing the stone into closer contact with the skin. Jewellery, at its most considered, should feel like an extension of the body. Here, it does. The collection’s tonal passages—prasiolite and green agate, their layered greens impossible to achieve with a single stone—bring a different kind of pleasure: the pleasure of nuance, of colour that rewards a second look.
Across rings, pendants, and earrings, diamond accents and sculptural forms offer pieces that work alone or accumulate into something more personal, more telling. This is jewellery designed for the way women actually live—not saved for occasion, but worn into the day.
At 25, Nudo does not need to prove anything. What this anniversary collection demonstrates, with quiet confidence, is that the original idea was right all along: strip everything back, let the stone speak, and what remains is not simplicity—it is clarity. And clarity, as Pomellato has always understood, is its own form of joy.
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