Valentine’s gifts tend to fall into familiar categories—flowers, jewelry, something wrapped in a velvet box. The Bulgari Icons Minaudières sit slightly outside that pattern; they're bags, after all, even if they are too small to accommodate a phone and designed with little interest in practicality. But trust us: Your Valentine will love it for more reasons than one. They occupy a space closer to fine jewelry than to handbags, and each minaudière, while they might not be capacious enough for your phone, are vessels for books, in miniature, authored by five women honored by Bulgari as icons themselves. Conceived by Mary Katrantzou, Bulgari’s Creative Director of Leather Goods and Accessories, the Icons Minaudière collection translates five of the Roman house’s most enduring motifs into sculptural metal forms and are produced using techniques typically associated with high jewelry (lost-wax casting, hand-applied enamel, pavé settings, and stone inlay). And, every minaudière has..
