Pomellato Capri — Mediterranean Colour in Cabochon and Coral
Pomellato Capri — Mediterranean Colour in Cabochon and Coral
The collection that channels the island's sea, sky, and stone into bold colour-led jewellery
Pomellato Capri is a collection within the Italian house's catalogue, named for the limestone island off the southern Italian coast and developed around a Mediterranean colour palette: turquoise, coral, white agate, and cabochon coloured stones set in sculptural gold. The collection draws explicitly on the colour vocabulary of the island — the milky aqua of the Marina Piccola, the pinks and reds of the local coral, the bleached limestone of the Faraglioni — and translates these source colours into a palette that is unmistakably summer, unmistakably southern Italian, and unmistakably Pomellato in its proportions and surface character.
Design language
Capri pieces work principally with cabochon-cut coloured stones, including turquoise, chrysoprase, white agate, white moonstone, and selected dyed and natural coral, often combined within a single piece to produce multi-coloured rings, bracelets, and pendants. The settings are rendered in 18-karat rose or yellow gold with the chunky, sculptural proportions characteristic of Pomellato's broader catalogue, but with surface textures and link forms that lean toward the organic and the playful rather than the architectural register of collections like Brera.
The collection includes statement rings in which a single cabochon dominates a substantial gold mount, as well as combination pieces in which two or more contrasting cabochons sit side by side in a single setting. Bracelets and necklaces in the collection often feature alternating coloured-stone and gold elements, producing a rhythmic pattern that reads as resort or holiday jewellery in spirit while retaining the precious-metal substance of fine work.
Materials and sourcing
The Capri palette draws on materials with strong colour identity and good cabochon presentation rather than on the traditional fine-jewellery hierarchy of corundum and beryl. Turquoise is a defining material for the collection, with selected sources offering the clean blue body characteristic of fine American or Persian material. Chrysoprase, the apple-green chalcedony, contributes a saturated green not easily matched by other commercially available material at scale. White agate and white moonstone provide neutral-pale anchors that allow the more saturated colours to register without competing with each other.
Coral in the collection should be examined carefully for source and treatment. Reputable Pomellato sourcing avoids the protected coral species that are subject to international trade restriction; Mediterranean Corallium rubrum from regulated fisheries and selected farmed material remain in commercial use. Buyers should expect documentation of source and treatment as part of any significant coral purchase.
Position within Pomellato
Within the Pomellato catalogue, Capri occupies the colour-led, summer-positioned end of the house's offering, complementing the more architectural Brera and the singular-stone Nudo collections. The collection's positioning targets the customer who responds to colour and to the identity of place — the customer for whom a Capri piece is partly a souvenir of the Italian Mediterranean and partly an everyday or holiday-wear jewellery investment. Pricing in the collection reflects the cabochon-and-gold composition rather than rare-stone content and tends to sit in the accessible-luxury portion of the house's broader range.
In the trade
Pomellato Capri is sold through the house's directly operated boutiques and through authorised retailers internationally. The collection's distinct colour identity makes it readily recognisable on the secondary market, where examples appear in mid-range jewellery auctions and in resort-market pre-owned inventory. The longevity of the collection, which has been in production in various forms across decades, has produced a substantial stock of vintage and pre-owned Capri pieces that trade actively through specialised channels.