KELLY RUTHERFORD & ANTHONY GIOVANNI

I launched The TwentyFour Six in March 2024 with the ambition to create a platform with a soul—featuring people I admire and creating beautiful items together.

A couple of months in, I woke up to a new follower: the one and only Kelly Rutherford. Surprised and delighted, Kelly had always been a role model of class and elegance. First, as an Upper East Side mother with a Parisian flair (and a strong Hermès bag collection) in her role as Lily van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl—the TV show I eagerly watched as a kid. I’m not lying when I say I looked forward the most to the parts where Kelly appeared. I don’t know why, but she had this strength and allure that I admired so much.

So, I did. Kelly and I started chatting through Instagram, and before long, we were on a call. I shared everything about The TwentyFour Six with her, and she, in turn, told me about her wish to launch a creative platform with her brother, Anthony, a talented designer whom Kelly is very close to. They both share an eye for beauty and an appreciation for life’s finest details. We talked about making an exclusive design for The TwentyFour Six and the debut piece of Kelly and Anthony’s partnership, which they named R+G.

From then on, our calls always included the three of us. I immediately saw how aligned Kelly and Anthony are, how easily they agree on ideas, and how much they respect each other. Excited and eager to design something beautiful, the process was smooth and natural.

The warmth between them is evident—their connection genuine and deeply rooted in shared history.

After months of FaceTime calls and countless sketches, we’re finally here in person.

Big hugs are exchanged, as though this isn’t the first time we’ve met. The excitement for what we’ve created together is undeniable.

It was a pleasure being in the same room with them. We caught up, prepared for the interview, and started filming. We talked about inspiration, family, creativity, and love.

Anthony: Oh, perseverance and elegance. Those are the two.

Kelly: I’d say kindness, generosity… really. Anthony is just a good human. A good person.

Anthony: (laughs) I gave her a hundred dollars to say that. Paid her in advance.

Kelly: Our mom’s really creative. She was a model and she did interior design. She’s always very chic. And our grandparents—Mimi and Pop—they were very elegant. I think it partly comes from that. And with Anthony, people would always ask him to come style things, even when he wasn’t a stylist. They’d ask, “Can we use your surfboard, your car, your jacket?” It just happened naturally for him.

Anthony: As a kid, I couldn’t put the guitar down. I went into music, then styling, and then I worked at a place called 20th Gallery in LA. They had amazing collectible vintage and contemporary pieces mixed with work from local artists. That got me into furniture and home design. I got really into brutalism, and I think that’s partly how we started working on this design.

Kelly: My family. Definitely. Starting with my grandparents, my mom and Anthony… We've always been very close. But also just people you meet along the way—at a museum, or on a walk. There’s inspiration everywhere.

Anthony: Family and music. Music first, then art. Film sometimes too. But music is probably my biggest source of inspiration.

Kelly: We’ve been talking about doing something together for years, and this collaboration with The TwentyFour Six was the perfect way to begin. We love the idea of creating meaningful, curated objects with a story behind them. This was just a really cool opportunity to collaborate on something and we love what you're doing.

Anthony: We imagine R+G as a platform where we can continue making pieces like this—timeless, tactile, and personal. We love collaborating with people who value craftsmanship and storytelling, and The TwentyFour Six represents that perfectly.

Anthony: Rutherford…

Kelly: and Giovanni. We liked the way it looked and sounded—it felt simple but significant.

Anthony: It sounded better than Kelly and Anthony. The idea is to create a platform where we can share objects we design or curate. We want everything to feel timeless and meaningful.

Anthony: We wanted something timeless with a bit of brutalist texture. There’s a biomorphic feel to it that makes you want to touch it. I was inspired by artists like Berrocal and Björn Weckström—people who understood how to blend sculpture with jewelry. And we liked the balance of masculine strength and feminine softness.

Kelly: The pendant has a grounding energy. When you hold it, it has this weight that connects you to the moment. And I love the inscription—Avec Amour, which means “with love.” Everything starts from love. And it really does feel like something you could pass down through generations.

Kelly: Grounded. It has this comforting weight to it—it reminds you to slow down and be present. And of course, the Avec Amour inscription is there to remind us all that love is the root of everything.

Anthony: It’s also just a beautiful piece and nice to have the option to wear it on the cord or the chain.

Kelly: I just try not to think about it too much, because it can be overwhelming when you travel a lot. But I think it's also exciting. When I'm home for a while, I always think, ‘oh, I'm excited to get to the airport. I'm excited for the next adventure.’ So I think part of it is just seeing it as an adventure. I travel with my beeswax candles, and sometimes I meditate, or I just do my yoga on the move. It keeps you sort of on your toes.

Anthony: The problem is giving advice that you don't take yourself. Because the first thing I would say is put the phone down, live in the moment and then as the second we get off this, I'm going to be on my phone on the way to something. So that's the hard thing, it is to give advice that you would take yourself, but I think it's living in the moment and stepping away. As far as creativity, technology and creativity are so interconnected nowadays, but it is really great when you can put the technology down and just come from a place of inspiration, analogue inspiration.

Kelly: I think a lot of things stem back to nature. If you really spend time in nature, I think it's the greatest teacher and everything's been given to us, everything. A lot of it too is just what comes from within. We're always looking outward for everything. Whether it's validation, whether it's love, whether it's creativity and it's a big distraction from what's really going on within our own home frequency. We're each here to do something. And it's simple. It's not complex.

So I think it's taking the time, when Anthony's saying, we talk about unplugging from the phone, but it's more just taking a little bit of time every day, whether it's going for a walk, whether it's getting quiet, lighting a candle, having a ritual for you that brings you back to your home frequency, what you're here to do, connecting with you. I'm always doing this (puts hand on chest). Even when we do this with our bodies, it immediately grounds you, right? You're immediately like, 'ah, this area'.

Our body is so connected to source that if we take the time, even a little bit of time to sit and get quiet and listen, so much comes through. Even with a journal, I do that sometimes. Just getting quiet with a journal and see what that news is. Turn off the other news and listen to the news coming through. It's there and it's coming through and it wants to be heard. We're just constantly distracted. It's really the most important thing and it's where your source of personal power comes from. It's where your source of vision and direction comes from and it's very healing.

Once you connect with that more and more and it becomes more expansive, then you can go anywhere and you're carrying your home frequency with you. You're entering the room with your own rather than constantly being influenced so much by the outer. Because everything that's here is here because of a thought.

Anthony: Talking to the family—or maybe not talking to the family if I really need a break. (laughs) A walk, some music, maybe a game of tennis. Simple things.

Kelly: Family time. Just slowing down and being present. I think we all need that reminder sometimes

The Avec Amour pendant marks more than the debute of R+G. It’s the embodiment of a sibling bond, a shared creative vision, and a reminder that the most meaningful creations—like the strongest relationships—always start with love.

The Avec Amour Pendant by R+G x The TwentyFour Six is available now in a limited series.