Elsa Peretti – a sculptor and force of nature

Elsa Peretti, the jewellery designer who revolutionized the industry with sculptured pieces based on shapes found in nature, such as beans, scorpions and snakes, has died. She also drew inspiration from human skeletons, an early childhood fascination from trips to Italian chapels crammed with the bones of Capuchin friars.  Her pieces accounted for 10% of $3.8 billion Tiffany’s sales and it was estimated that one of its stores around the world sold an object designed by her every minut