Detail of a gold GFW necklace on a teal ground

Handmade in Vicenza

Art to wear.

Sculptural jewelry and bags, shaped by hand from resins, powders and pure gold by the painter Grazia Fortuna Ward.

“When I see and experience something I like, I taste it. The inspiration to create rises from my need to give form and unfold the shapes and colors I feel.”

Grazia Fortuna Ward

The collections

Collections

All collections

Six collections, six landscapes: the earth and the stone of the Veneto, the city, the roses of a garden in Vicenza, the light of Manhattan — and the newest, dedicated to dogs.

$Terra — texture$ Terra Earth $Pietra — texture$ Pietra Stone $Città — texture$ Città City $English Roses — texture$ English Roses $Luce — texture$ Luce Light $Cani — texture$ Cani Dogs

Selected pieces

Resins and powders, pure gold

Terra collar necklace in black, white and gold squares — Terra — Collar necklace Enquire

English Roses necklace in red — English Roses — Necklace Enquire

Luce fringe collar in black and gold — Luce — Collar necklace Enquire

GFW clutches in gold, black, silver, red and checkerboard

Handmade in Vicenza

Bags

Clutches built by hand from resin and pure gold leaf — each one a small mosaic of hundreds of pieces.

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Grazia Fortuna Ward holding a bust that wears one of her gold chain necklaces

About

From the canvas to the body

Born in Vicenza, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts, Grazia Fortuna Ward painted for decades before her work with the Guggenheim Foundation in Venice opened the story of Art to Wear. Every piece still begins the way a painting does: with matter.

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A painting by Grazia Fortuna Ward on the wall of her home in Vicenza

Paintings

A materic, volumetric painting inspired by the materials of nature — shown in galleries in Italy and abroad, and in environmental works for private homes and studios.

Paintings