Unoaerre marks 100 years with Stardust installation in Arezzo
Unoaerre turned 100 with Stardust in Arezzo, tying a century of goldmaking to a giftable provenance story and a year of stamp, magazine and citywide celebrations.
Polvere di Stelle gives Unoaerre’s centennial a theatrical frame, and that matters if you buy jewelry as a milestone gift. The immersive installation by Felice Limosani is on view at Palazzo della Fraternita dei Laici in Arezzo from May 9 to June 8, 2026, turning a century of Italian goldmaking into a visible, place-based story rather than just a logo and a date.
That story begins in Arezzo on March 15, 1926, when Carlo Zucchi, a craftsman, and Leopoldo Gori, a sales representative, founded what was then called Gori & Zucchi. Unoaerre says the company opened its first workshops in Arezzo’s historic center, a detail that still matters because the brand is tied to the city that helped industrialize one of Italy’s most important artisanal goldsmith districts. In other words, this is not heritage as decoration. It is heritage with infrastructure behind it.
The company’s own timeline is unusually neat for a century-old jewelry house. On April 2, 1934, it received the first official provincial gold-industry hallmark in Arezzo, 1AR, and that mark later became part of the name Uno A Erre. For anyone choosing a commemorative gift, that is the kind of provenance that does real work. It gives a necklace, bracelet or pair of earrings a documented lineage that reads well on the box and even better in the memory.
Unoaerre president Maria Cristina Squarcialupi has framed the centenary around innovation, a culture of making and openness to the world, which is the right trio for a house that wants to look forward without flattening its past. The company launched a centenary magazine, Il Tempo di Unoaerre, in January 2026 to trace its innovations and transformations in jewelry, and one report puts its entering the year with revenue of about €280 million.
The anniversary program also reaches beyond the showroom. Poste Italiane is issuing a commemorative stamp, and Arezzo is hosting an institutional celebration, underscoring that this is being treated as both a local landmark and a national one. For gift buyers, that combination is the appeal: Unoaerre is not just selling polish. It is selling a century of place, craft and recognition, which is exactly what makes a luxury gift feel worth keeping.
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