The Italian Interiors of Elsa Peretti

The photo book is the first exclusively dedicated to the renowned designer’s homes in Italy, a tribute to the late artist whose creations for Tiffany & Co. completely reshaped jewellery design in the 20th century and are still worn by the world’s biggest stars today. Capturing the terracotta glow of Elsa’s sumptuous homes, which are not open to the public, Estelle Hanania’s ethereal photography introduces us to the wilds of Torre Avoltore, a towering residence in Porto Ercole, and invites us to retire to stately Rome, where Elsa grew up.

Made in close collaboration with the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, the book opens with an essay by longtime collaborator Stefano Palumbo and features a brief dispatch from Dominique Nabokov, who visited Torre Avoltore in 2001 on assignment for Vogue France. She remembers her three-day visit as ‘one of the most magical moments of [her] life as a photographer’. Apartamento is also honoured to have captured Elsa’s Roman apartment the day before it was sold, making these images the last to depict her world there, preserved as it would have been during Elsa’s lifetime.

The Italian Interiors of Elsa Peretti is the latest in Apartamento’s intimate survey of artist’s homes, including Casa Dalí, La Fábrica, and more.