‘When I bought the estate, the villa, built by Casperius Aelianus in around 80AD, was in ruins’
It seems there’s nothing Suzanne Syz can’t do. With her ex-husband, Eric Syz – on the board of whose bank she sits – she’s built a huge collection of contemporary art by the likes of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cindy Sherman.
But Swiss-born Suzanne is best known for her own creations, luxury jewels so playful and colourful that they easily qualify as Pop Art themselves. From the first design she sold – to movie legend Elizabeth Taylor – to her 1,001st, she spent two decades dazzling women worldwide. Then, in 2019, she began pouring her considerable energies into a whole new venture: a historic wine estate in Tuscany.
Now Suzanne is ready to
