Paolo Costagli
Paolo Costagli (born in 1966) is an Italian jewellery designer and gemologist. Costagli is known for using hard-to-find coloured gemstones, sophisticated colour combinations and strong architectural shapes. Early life. During his childhood, Paolo Costagli attended the private school Collegio Alla Querce in Florence. At the age of 21, after serving in the military, he moved to the United States where he enrolled in a graduate gemology course at the Gemological Institute of America in Santa Monica, California. After getting his gemologist degree, Costagli went to Muzo, Colombia and worked for several months at the emerald mines  there. He then moved to Bogotá, where he worked for a Japanese export company specializing in emeralds. Career. He returned to the United States and moved to New York City in 1991. In 1993, he started his own gem and antique jewelry business, which sold in colored stones. He bought signed vintage pieces from known jewelry designers and sold them. He learned how to craft jewelry from designers like René Boivin, Suzanne Belperron, and Raymond Templier. In 1995, he began designing his own jewels. His early collections include "Florentine" (2001), which was inspired by the vivid colors he saw in  the Giardino dell'Iris garden in Florence, and "Brillante" (2003), which was inspired by a tile pattern at the Doge's Palace in Venice. In 2008, his "Brillante" bracelet was included into the permanent collection of Museum of Arts and Design. In 2018, his company started a curated online trunk show for the first time. Now clients all over the world have access to the products and information behind it. He is currently based in New York City on Madison Avenue.