Stefano Ricci Cigar Cutter — Malachite / Gold

Stefano Ricci Cigar Cutter — Malachite / Gold

The Russian Imperial Court chose Malachite for the columns of Saint Isaac's Cathedral and for the Malachite Room of the Winter Palace — an entire hall clad floor to ceiling in the stone, making the point about its visual power with characteristic Imperial authority. The reason is the surface: Malachite's concentric banding, in shades ranging from pale mint to near-black deep green, creates a pattern that is organic, unrepeatable, and impossible to look away from. No synthetic substitute captures it. Stefano Ricci sets the real stone into a gold finishing cigar cutter, where the combination of green and gold does exactly what it has always done in the objects that have mattered.

Malachite

The stone on this cutter is real Malachite — and real means that the banding pattern on every piece is unique. The concentric rings and swirling formations are a record of the stone's formation over millions of years; no two cutters will carry the same pattern. The green ranges across a deep spectrum depending on the specific piece: from forest to emerald to a dark, saturated near-black in the densest banding. It is a stone that changes character depending on how it is held and where the light falls.

Gold Finishing

The gold finishing is Malachite's natural partner. The pairing has appeared in jewelry, in decorative arts, in architecture, in royal collections — always for the same reason: the warmth of gold intensifies the green rather than competing with it, and the green gives the gold something to work against. On this cutter the relationship is direct: gold hardware, Malachite stone, and the understanding that some combinations require no further justification.

The Cutter

The cutter delivers a precise, clean cut on premium cigars. The construction meets Stefano Ricci's standard for the collection. What the stone adds is the quality of the object in the hand before the cut is made — a weight and a visual interest that distinguish it from any other cutter in the room.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.