Watch any Hollywood awards show, and the cameras are sure to zoo in on  wearing glittering-borrowed diamonds, sapphires and rubies from luxury purveyors like Tiffany, Bulgari and Harry Winston. One name missing from those promotional parades is Codognato, an Italian jewelry house known for a grittier but still extravagant style of adornment — precious stones [...]

Jewelry Codognato Venice. Is in the double window in San Marco, a universe of true beauty materializes in bracelets, snakes, blackamoor brooches, skull rings and earrings and antique cameos.