Design Origins & Cross-Cultural Influence
Bea Bongiasca is a Milan-based fine jewellery brand founded by Beatrice Maria Bongiasca, a designer whose aesthetic is as distinctive as it is deliberate. Jewellery was not always the plan. It was at university, discovering a love of three-dimensional design, that the medium found her. "Jewellery spoke to me the most," she explains, "it was like a mini sculpture for the body." From that realisation, it became her primary language.
The visual world she draws on is wide. Beatrice has a deep fascination with Eastern cultures — Japan and Korea in particular — and the way beauty operates in the details there: the arrangement of flowers in a hotel lobby, the curation of a restaurant table. "I feel like I incorporate some of this visual language in my work," she says, "but mix it with my western vision." The result is not figurative or literal — it is felt in the colour, the balance, the sense that every element has been considered.
Demi-Fine Craftsmanship & Playful Expression
Bea Bongiasca pieces sit in the category Beatrice herself helped bring into focus: demi-fine jewellery — crafted with fine jewellery techniques in gold, with precious and semi-precious stones, at a price point that makes them genuinely accessible. It is a position she arrived at by design, not compromise. "As a millennial, I wanted to create jewels that were accessible to people my age without them having to spend a crazy amount of money." The flagship boutique in Milan is the fullest expression of the brand's world — fun, colourful, and pop in the best sense of the word.
Beatrice's approach to her own pieces is characteristically unrestrained — she stacks everything, tests new designs by wearing them out of the studio, and prizes the moment a drawing becomes a physical object above all else. "The joy of seeing the new piece you were working on become real will forever be the biggest satisfaction in my work."
“... in a world where there are already so many beautiful and more traditional jewels, I wanted to make something a bit different that would also appeal to millennials like myself.”
Joyful Identity & Creative Purpose
Bea Bongiasca makes happy jewellery. That is not a simplification, it is the point. In a fine jewellery market that can take itself very seriously, Beatrice set out to make something genuinely different: colourful, playful, and true to its own aesthetic without being an imitation of anyone else. "My goal has always been to create happy jewellery that with their colours and lightheartedness could provide a moment of evasion from the stresses of everyday life."
That sincerity of vision is why Bea Bongiasca belongs on The Jewellery Room. It is a brand with a clear identity, a loyal following across ages and nationalities, and a designer who has never been tempted to make the same thing as everyone else. The jewellery makes that obvious from the first glance.
Slow-made
Lifelong Jewellery
Bea Bongiasca believes that her demi-fine jewellery will never be like ‘fast’ fashion because people take much more care of it and keep it to pass on to their families.
“I hope that as an industry there will be steps to become more sustainable as it is something that often needs to start at the top to trickle its way down.”
By a millennial
For Millennials and everyone else
Founder and CEO Beatrice Maria Bongiasca fell in love with 3D design during her University years. Jewellery was the pathway that spoke to her—like a mini sculpture for the body. From then on, there was no looking back, it became her medium to express creativity.
As a millennial, Bea wanted to create jewels that were accessible to people her age without them having to spend a crazy amount of money to have them. In fact, in recent years the concept of ‘demi-fine jewellery’ has become very popular because the jewels are still made with fine jewellery techniques in gold (9K), with precious (diamonds) or semi-precious stones without being unattainable.
In 2013, Bea graduated with honours in Jewellery Design BA at Central Saint Martins in London. It was that same year that she founded her own brand and studio in Milan.
