Pomellato opens Paris exhibition and unveils Stile Libero collection

Pomellato turned its Paris debut into a two-part showcase: a free exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo and the launch of Stile Libero, a 65-creation high-jewelry collection shaped by the house’s signature color, sculptural volumes and chain work. For a brand founded in Milan in 1967 by Pino Rabolini, the move makes its archive feel less like museum history and more like a wardrobe language meant to be worn now.

The exhibition, titled Pomellato, Le Joaillier Révolutionnaire, opened June 24 and runs through July 20, 2026, with admission free by reservation. It was temporarily closed on June 25 and 26 because of high temperatures and reopens June 27. Curated by Alba Cappellieri, professor and head of jewellery design at Politecnico di Milano, the show is organized around five themes: craftsmanship, color, style, image and women, a structure that mirrors the brand’s long insistence that jewelry can be expressive without being formal.

That idea is carried directly into Stile Libero. Pomellato says the collection stretches across 65 creations and recasts its house codes into contemporary, wearable forms, with the focus on color, technical innovation, craftsmanship and sculptural volume. The story is not about a break from the archive but a translation of it: the bold gold and rounded surfaces that defined Pomellato’s visual identity now arrive in pieces meant to feel easier to live with, the kind of investment jewelry that can move from a meeting to dinner without changing the mood.

The exhibition also gives the brand’s photography a central place, naming Gian Paolo Barbieri, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Lord Snowdon, Michel Comte and Albert Watson among the image-makers who helped shape Pomellato’s public face. That emphasis matters because Pomellato has always sold more than objects; it has sold a posture. Rabolini’s original idea was to push jewelry away from rigid, occasion-only rules and toward something bold, sensual and tied to modern women’s independence.

The house’s chain vocabulary makes that argument tangible. Early signatures such as the first Gourmette bracelet in 1967, Ricciolo in 1968, Intreccio in 1983, Catena Spiga in 1987 and Tre Ori in 1993 show how Pomellato built identity through touch as much as through sparkle. With Pomellato for Women, launched in 2017, and Kering behind it since 2012, the brand is now using its first public Paris exhibition to turn that history into something more immediate: jewelry that reads as heritage, but wears like today.