Alexandra Munroe Instagram – In my twenties, I visited Elsa in her village in Sant Martí Vell, stayed at her Roma apartment, and years later, took my husband to meet her at her tower in Porto Ercole.
In these medieval spaces, she lived with Zen calligraphy, Indonesian textiles, modern Italian furniture mixed with farmer’s tools as sculpture, a rustic Spanish chair, collections of animal bones, feathers, rocks, and her own timeless tableware designs in silver, colored glass, lacquer, and leather. She wore kaftans and her own necklaces; she’d place a flower picked from the roadside in her famous silver vase pendent. No one has style like Elsa.
We stayed in touch until we didn’t. I am so sad these weeks because I let this friendship glide away. And the NYT obituary is a sexist sensationalist piece of shit.
Elsa Peretti is the most important force in jewelry design in a century – and the first woman ever to reach such heights. Her genius shall live on for as long as people adorn themselves, and for as long as they have an imagination for style.
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