"I Create Jewellery in Service to Humanity, One Piece at a Time, Working With the Mastery of Symbolism To Assist in the Return to Love"
— Giovanni D'Ercole
In Service to Love
Talismans for Humanity
Giovanni strongly believes in the mythology of jewellery as powerful talismans of love, hope and passion. Each handcrafted piece is embedded with these deep spiritual beliefs and healing intentions, for the wearer to live and experience. Through his work, Giovanni creates timeless pieces, with the intention each piece will last many lifetimes.
Forged in Rock and Art
Talismans for Artists and Icons
From the midst of the early 1980s in Sydney, Giovanni emerged as a designer and artist embedded in the fabric of the music, fashion and art worlds. An intrinsic part of a burgeoning subculture that has left a historic mark on Australian and international creative cultures. Working from his gallery in the Strand Arcade, he created custom pieces for rock royalty—embellishing music icons from Alice Cooper to Chrissy Amphlett, Michael Hutchence to Perry Farrell and many more with his unique rock studded bracelets and heart dagger talismans, his jewellery and the LOVE & HATRED Insignia becoming the artist’s talisman.
Where Light Embraces Dark
Signature Originals, One By One
As Giovanni’s reputation spread, waiting lists for his one-off designs began to grow, with Giovanni determined to remain faithful to his artisan roots of his own gallery and workshop. Each piece a work of art, highly personalised, with signature designs crafted to exacting standards using exceptional precious metals and certified gemstones. It is in the unity of both love and hate, light and dark, day and night that the creative spirit lives.
A Life Devoted to Beauty and Joy
Spirit in Every Detail
A lover of love, Giovanni’s connection to spirit through expression in design is a constant state of being and a genuine way of living. His extraordinary homes, art, jewellery and designs have featured in Architectural Digest, Vogue Australia, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle Decoration and Inside Out. Instinctively progressive and evolutionary, his refined respect for making the everyday beautiful, meaningful and joyful is ever present in his being and everything he creates.
Soul, Craft and Symbol
Mystic Vision in Metal
Since LOVE & HATRED’s inception, Giovanni has constantly brought forth the mystical essence of life, through his deeply soulful nature and an indelible desire to carry a message through his designs to his beloved clients and beyond. Now working from his idyllic studio in Byron Bay, Giovanni has amassed a catalogue of more than 1000 jewellery designs, with the LOVE & HATRED Insignia pieces remaining central to the collection.
"Hatreds Never Cease With Hatreds in This World; Only With Love Can They Cease"
— Buddha
Born of a Simple Truth
Where Hatred Yields to Love
LOVE & HATRED was inspired by a quote from Siddhartha Gautama Buddha: “Hatreds never cease with hatred in this world, only with love can they cease.” The philosophy is reflected in all of Giovanni's work. The alchemic journey of life, through the unknown and into love. This is the very essence of Giovanni. Knowing no bounds, beauty is always brought to life in the realms of Giovanni’s universe.
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