GIANLUCA VITELLI

Founder, London

Gianluca works together with many of the world’s leading gallery and brand owners and specialist dealers and helps private clients, corporations and museum clients, to build collections of art, rare hypercars, classic cars and race cars, timepieces and high jewellery.

Gianluca helps art lovers and collectors find works they love and build or enhance their existing collections by acquiring museum quality artworks from the world’s leading paintings, sculptures, antiquities and antiques dealers. These dealers often have 40-60 years of experience in one field and come from multi-generational art dealing families and have sold to many of the world’s major museums.

Gianluca not only works with many of the major high jewellery brand owners but also with the renowned manufacturers of the highest quality fancy color diamonds, white colorless diamonds and precious gemstones, whose job is to supply polished stones to the leading jewellery houses and brands. Their knowledge has been acquired for generations and their understanding of the global market stems from their strong presence in the Far East, Europe and the Americas. These mining distributors have bought many of their best stones from the major mines like the Argyle and Cullinan mines.

Gianluca works with many specialist car dealers for classic cars as well as hypercar brand owners in Europe that make a very limited number of high performance cars, which few people in any one continent will get the chance to own. Gianluca also works with watch brands and AHCI independent watchmakers who make less than a few hundred timepieces in total each year. These brands often make unique and bespoke pieces or collections for Gianluca’s clients. Gianluca also works with the owners and global heads of many of the most well known high jewellery brands.

EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREER

Gianluca studied at Highgate School in North London and graduated from University College London in 2011 after studying Economics and Management with a year abroad in Milan. Gianluca worked as a precious metals trader for the UK’s largest gold refinery and with various investment funds in a private wealth management capacity managing a few key clients and GCC families, before founding Palterna.

Gianluca connects collectors directly to major gallery and brand owners so buyers can benefit from having the best experience, confidence, trust and access to global experts who have dedicated their whole lives to one specialist field. These owners have the ability to offer the best pricing, access to pieces that have never been seen before and a truly personalised service and experience like no other.

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