ABOUT COACCI
COACCI — Since XVIII
Legado
é continuidade.
Entre tradição italiana, rigor artesanal mineiro
e uma visão artística que fala com qualquer lugar do mundo.
Um encontro entre passado e futuro.
COACCI — Since XVIII
Authorial jewelry of Italian historical lineage
COACCI is a jewelry house born from a crossing.
From Italy to Minas Gerais, from centuries of goldsmithing to the present — from a documented name in 18th-century Rome to a Brazilian atelier that now engages with the world.
The story begins with Vincenzo Coacci (1756–1794), born in Ostra, in the Marche region of Italy. At a young age, he moved to Rome, where he trained in the workshop of Luigi Valadier, at a moment when Europe was transitioning from the late Baroque to Neoclassicism. By 1782, he was already working as an independent goldsmith, taking on important commissions following Valadier’s death.
Within the Roman context of the 18th century, he produced works related both to the sacred sphere and to objects of display. His production is documented in collections and institutions, including a monumental table service preserved at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, as well as chalices held in churches and ecclesiastical treasuries in Italy.
The Coacci lineage remained active across generations. Clitofonte Coacci, active in the 19th century, left works in churches throughout the Marche region, including pyxes, monstrances, and reliquaries. His descendants, Pietro and Bernardino Coacci, continued the craft, the latter being the author of a silver navette dated 1894, still preserved in the Church of Santa Croce in Ostra.
From the same town of Ostra came Bodio Mosci, who began his life in goldsmithing in the late 19th century. Decades later, in Brazil, he founded the Zenith Jewelry and Watchmaking House on Avenida Afonso Pena in Belo Horizonte, contributing to the formation of an important center of jewelry in Minas Gerais.
These two lineages do not follow one another — they converge. Sira Mosci and Alfredo Dante Coacci represent this point of intersection, where distinct traditions come to coexist.
Ricardo Coacci, grandson of this convergence, discovered this history only after already working as a goldsmith. In what now seems inevitable, an article published in Vogue Brazil by Chiara Gadaleta, titled “This Fashion Runs in the Blood”, preceded this discovery — at a time when jewelry had not yet been recognized as inheritance, but was already present as practice.
Founded in 2007 in Minas Gerais, COACCI is an authorial jewelry atelier where each piece is sculpted by hand as a unique work. Gold, silver, woods, and Brazilian gemstones compose a body of work that rejects serial production and empty ornament.
The VULTUS collection investigates the permanence of the human face in metal. FUSIONE explores the convergence of opposing materials, where the organic and the unpredictable, the raw and the refined, coexist without hierarchy. Each piece carries the mark of the hand that made it.
COACCI’s work has been featured in Vogue Brazil, in the book Artistar Jewels Milano, and in design platforms across more than 30 countries. Ricardo Coacci has lectured at CINDOR in Portugal and at Brazilian universities.
This blog has existed since 2010. With over 320,000 visits, readers across all continents, and an archive that documents every phase of a practice built without concessions.
Legacy
Today, COACCI is more than an atelier:
it is continuity.
A meeting between past and future,
between Italian tradition and the artisanal rigor of Minas Gerais,
and an artistic vision that speaks beyond place.
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