Pomellato unveils Stile Libero at first public Paris exhibition

Pomellato opened its first public Paris exhibition at Palais de Tokyo and used the occasion to unveil Stile Libero, a 65-piece high-jewelry collection built around vibrant gemstones and sculptural goldwork. Titled Pomellato, Le Joaillier Révolutionnaire, the exhibition runs from June 24 to July 20, 2026, and Pomellato calls it the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to its unconventional vision.

Curated by Alba Cappellieri, Ph.D., head of jewelry design at Politecnico di Milano, the show is organized around five linked revolutions in the maison’s identity: style, craftsmanship, image, color and women. That framework gives the Paris debut more than a display-case feeling. It presents Pomellato’s archive as an argument about how jewelry can teach buyers to read gemstones as design, not decoration, and to see color as a form of personal authorship.

The brand’s own origin story reinforces that message. Founded in Milan in 1967, Pomellato has long tied its identity to a period of social transformation and women’s emancipation. In the exhibition, that history is not treated as backdrop. It is staged through references to photographers including Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Michel Comte and Snowdon, placing jewelry inside a broader visual culture of self-invention, image-making and freedom.

Stile Libero extends that logic in product form. Pomellato describes the collection as a celebration of creative freedom and eclecticism, and its scale makes clear that this is not a token capsule but a substantial high-jewelry statement. For readers watching the birthstone category, that matters. Pomellato’s Paris staging pushes colored stones away from the purely traditional script of a month-marker ring and toward something more expressive and collectible, where the stone is chosen for personality, styling range and visual force.

That is the brand theater at work: a public exhibition with free-booking ticketing, a museum setting rather than a private sales salon, and a history told through color, women and craft. If that language travels beyond Pomellato, it will likely be in the form of birthstone jewelry that feels less ceremonial and more editorial, with the gem treated as the centerpiece of identity rather than a fixed custom.