Leda and the Swan, a story told by the greatest artists and artisans of every era, from ancient Greece to Twombly, from Leonardo to Rubens. We had this carving right in front of us, and there was something we couldn’t quite grasp yet, but we knew we wanted, at all costs, to breathe new life into it. And so we accepted the challenge it was unwittingly setting before us. We wanted to ignite this beauty and these lines with the materials we had in mind — plexiglass, these incredible colour compounds, impossibly light and resilient, bronze and the goldsmith’s art behind the working of this marvellous material, the cameo’s own blend with polychromies we develop without pause. We wanted this object to speak once again through its very essence, and for everyone to perceive and see what we could see. You know how it is? It’s like when you look at something that draws you in and you don’t know why. As if you recognised something of your own in it, something you can’t yet define. And then we placed it in the shop window. And from there, our Grand Tour began.

The lines coil and seek each other — Leda's body, the swan's neck, the open wings crossing the full oval. This is an engraving in motion: every curve leads to the next, every ridge tells a story. Jupiter transforms into a swan to draw close to Leda — he chooses a form that enchants, and the metamorphosis is all here: the divine changing shape for love. From this encounter, stories are born that span millennia, yet the scene carved into the cameo captures one precise instant — the moment everything happens, and time stands still in the gesture.

The smooth, luminous plexiglass amplifies every curve of this engraving, the polished surface of the Classic model so clean that the reliefs emerge with rare clarity — the swan’s plumage, the line of the body, the outstretched limbs find in the contrast between sleek material and sculpture a resonance you can see and feel. The oval form of the ring welcomes the composition naturally, the generous volume of the base gives the scene a full presence on the finger, and the gold-plated bronze crown marks the boundary between colour and relief with a light that illuminates the whole story.

Yellow is the most vivid cameo, sand the gentlest, white the most pristine, pale green the freshest. On the white base every colour is purified — the relief becomes sculpture, light is full and the story opens. On the orange base everything ignites: colours intensify, contrast vibrates, and the scene of Leda and the Swan gains an energy you feel on the finger. On the green base every combination returns to the earth — tones take root, soften, and when pale green meets green the metamorphosis lives in the colour itself.