How a Poor Greek Boy Created Bulgari
How a Poor Greek Boy Created Bulgari The Bulgari founder story begins not in a gleaming Roman boutique, but in a small village in Ottoman-occupied Greece, where a silversmith’s son had nothing but skilled hands and a wild dream. Sotirios Voulgaris—one of eleven children, whose village was repeatedly burned and whose family shop was robbed in Naples—somehow built a Greek immigrant success story that would grow into one of the most legendary jewelry empires on earth. From his desperate escape and reinvention in Rome to eventually dressing Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, and Audrey Hepburn in the world’s finest jewels, his [See More…]
