"I met singer and songwriter Ivan Lins on a recording of one of his albums. In the recording studio, out of curiosity, there was also the daughter of Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson's eternal manager - Julie Jones. In a second moment, Ivan came to Niterói with bassist Arthur Maia, a personal friend, and asked Arthur to call me, in order to arrange a meeting between us.

We are a family owned and operated business.

When we met, we ate a lot of codfish balls, we laughed a lot and he made his request: make a ring for his companion. In addition, he also asked me to deliver him personally to the house he had in Teresópolis, in the mountainous region of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

We are a family owned and operated business.

Two weeks later, I went to the city to deliver the wedding ring and spent the afternoon in the city, exchanging ideas with Ivan. In addition to showing me his painting works, besides buying him a ring.

We are a family owned and operated business.

Afterwards, we had other sporadic meetings, but this one I remember as something special. "

- Bruno Latini