Born in Madrid to Cuban American parents, Rosa de la Cruz started her career as an attorney at the Guggenheim Museum in New York after graduating from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Law School. Inspired by her family’s prominent contemporary art collection, the “de la Cruz Collection”, she is an avid collector of contemporary art. In 2000, she moved to London and launched “Rosa Bonfiglio Jewellery”. In 2010, she went into partnership with Tierney Horne and renamed the collection “Rosa de la Cruz”.
What is luxury?
Luxury cannot be bought or harnessed; it is an experience; an uncompromising attention to detail and editing.
What are three luxuries you allow yourself?
Beautiful meals at home with my family – cooking breakfast for them – fresh bread and jams and freshly squeezed grapefruit juice.Flowers at home.
Reading to my younger boys at night; I have four sons, and they grow up so fast; you blink and it’s gone...
