Where the jewellery speaks in whispers and travels far
Like the silk that crossed deserts and seas, this collection has its roots in transit and cultural interchange. Inspired by the encounters between East and West woven along the Silk Road, Silken Code captures symbols, shapes, and textures that speak a deep and timeless shared language.
The pieces emerge as fragments of a millenarian journey: filigrees that evoke the carved screens of Persia, glints of gold that hark back to the hot sands of Kashgar, and designs with a lightness that recall the silk woven on the ancestral weaving houses of Suzhou, flowing like fabric in the wind.
Soft, luminous pearls whisper stories of Mediterranean crossings to us; deep reds fuse with the mystery of Samarkandian valleys, while the most intense stones seem to hold on to the frozen energy of the Altai mountains or the exuberant power of Mekong jungles.
Every piece in Silken Code, Salvatore Plata’s new collection for 2025/26, captures a spark of these faraway places.
When that millenarian legacy reached the westernmost Mediterranean, it not only found a destination but also a mirror to reflect it. It was in Valencia, to be exact, a light-filled city, a door between cultures with a legacy of silk, where Salvatore Plata transformed this age-old heritage into an elegant and nuanced contemporary proposition.
Silken Code is more than just a collection: it’s an invisible map in which each piece conserves something of the journey, of the crossed gazes, of the secret shared between cultures. It’s choral collection, rich in contrasts, symbols, and beauty. An homage to that subtle web of influences which, from Xi’an to the Levante, have turned jewellery into an intimate and silent code between civilizations.