DESIGNER OF JEWELRY MAKE LOVE BRACELET
Aldo Cipullo, a Tiffany and co jewelry designer who was perhaps best known for the Love Bracelet he designed for Cartier that locks around the wearer’s wrist, died Tuesday at St. Vincent’s Hospital after suffering two heart attacks Sunday. He was 42 years old and lived in Manhattan.
The bracelet was Mr. Cipullo’s first design upon joining Cartier in 1969. He had previously designed jewelry for Tiffany and the David Webb jewelry concern. The bracelet is made of gold and is decorated with tiny screws that join the top and bottom halves. The buyer receives a small screwdriver that is used to connect the halves.
Mr. Cipullo said in a recent interview that the bracelet combined two tenets of his work – earrings design and function. ”Design has to be part of function,” he said. ”That’s the secret of success. When you have function and design, married together, you always have a successful item.”
Mr. Cipullo, who was born in Rome, was introduced to jewelry design by his father, Giuseppe, a costume-jewelry manufacturer. He came to the United States in 1961.
In the early 1970′s, Mr. Cipullo started his own design company, Aldo Cipullo Ltd., and in 1974 he won the prestigious Coty American Fashion Critics Award for jewelry.
The American Gem Society, an organization of 1,500 American key ring jewelers, commissioned Mr. Cipullo in 1978 to design a collection of 31 pieces, for men and women, that used only American gemstones and metals. The collection is now on tour in the United States.
Mr. Cipullo is survived by his parents; a sister, Maria, of Rome, and two brothers, Edoardo, of Rome, and Renato, of New York.
A requiem mass will be offered at 10 A.M. tomorrow at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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