"Craftsmanship is at the heart of our company," claims Laura Bicego, the woman behind the popular Italian jewelry, Nanis, based in Italy's capital of gold, Vicenza.

Along with passion, artistic integrity and sentimental significance, Bicego also takes pride in her talented artisans who have been making precious handmade jewelry for more than three decades. She explains that each piece of Nanis jewelry is a unique expression of the beauty and elegance of her hometown, adding a touch of femininity and character to it.

Bicego has breathed the world of jewelry since she was a child, having been born into a family of jewelers from Vicenza, where she spent her childhood and adolescence at her father's goldsmith company, closely seeing every aspect of jewelry production.

After completing her studies, she officially worked for her father. However, Bicego felt a calling to "free jewelry" from its conventional confines. In 1990, Bicego and her husband Piero Marangon founded Nanis Italian Jewels. Nanis, named after a little girl the couple met in one of their visits in Haiti, aims to combine family legacy with Bicego's desire to create jewels that define a contemporary woman. 

"I stopped working in my father's business because I had my own idea of designing jewelries," she shares. "My father was more traditional, but he made me fall in love with the craft — the fact that gold can be like a glass that you can shape and transform into something beautiful and sparkling. It's like a canvas. It's fantastic. But I have my own idea of jewelry. I've always loved things that are changing and very functional. Versatility in my pieces has always been one of my aims."