Band ring, with optical globe playing the light from a gold leaf through the glass, rhodium-plated silver, 925, gold leaf, glass, signed with a stylus inside the ring "G. Vigna", circa 1990-2000.
 

 
 Provenance: Naïla de Monbrison Gallery
 

 
 Giorgio Vigna is an Italian designer, born in Verona in 1955. He studied art and then taught at the European Institute of Design in Milan. He began his career in the performing arts as a set designer, director, and costume designer. He then created jewelry for opera, theater, film, and fashion designers, and in 1992, he designed a line of gold jewelry for Cleto Munari, the renowned "dandy-design" publisher of objects and jewelry by prestigious artists and designers such as Ettore Sottass, Michele de Luchi, Alessandro Mendini, Mimmo Paladino, and Meret Oppenheim, to name just a few.
 
 He often draws inspiration from the geological, optical and kinetic world, notably with his series of "wandering pebbles" which, thanks to magnets, can be carried wherever one desires.
 
 He exhibits in prestigious galleries such as the Galerie Naïla de Monbrison in Paris, and participates in numerous international contemporary art fairs such as Kunst Wien 96, at the MAK in Vienna in 1996.