Chantecler Embarks on Capri-to-Alicudi Boat Ride With Artistic Collab

The islands may be different, but the spirit is the same.

That’s perhaps why Maria Elena Aprea, Chantecler’s creative director based in Capri, instantly clicked with artist Roberto Longo – known as Roberto di Alicudi, a nickname drawn from the Aeolian Island off the coasts of Sicily where he is based – and enlisted him to collaborate on a capsule collection.

The storied jeweler, established in Capri in 1947 by Salvatore Aprea and Pietro Capuano, has teamed up with the artist on a series of one-of-a-kind pieces created according to the “pincisanti” technique, the thousand-year-old art of miniature oil painting on antique glass, which Longo masters.

The artworks, done by hand at his atelier in Alicudi, depict legends, myths and tales connecting the two islands. Chantecler has carved precious frames for them, in the shape of earrings, brooches and pendants, setting the glass in materials ranging from rose gold to titanium.

A work in progress as new glass artworks are finalized, the collection currently comprises the Alicudi earrings featuring a mermaid flanked by a star and an oversized brooch showing the famous blue lizard, a special species of the reptile inhibiting Capri’s Faraglioni sea stacks.

The capsule of unique pieces, nicknamed Capricudi, a crasis of Capri and Alicudi, will be exclusively available at the brand’s flagship stores.