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Louis Vuitton high jewelry in the V sign

Published on April 21, 2021

Orecchini con diamanti e onice by Louis Vuitton

Along with high fashion, high jewelery presents itself with new products at the beginning of each year. For 2021, Louis Vuitton‘s artistic director for watches and jewelry, Francesca Amfitheatrof, has chosen a minimalist style, perhaps in tune with the atmosphere of introspective reflection that marked the end of 2020 and the beginning of the new year. The high jewelery collection is called Pure V and plays with the initial letter of the surname of Gaston-Louis, grandson of the founder of the Maison and active in the first half of the twentieth century, the entrepreneur who made the company famous as a manufacturer of suitcases and trunks.

The letter V is interpreted with a direct link to the Art Deco era, the golden period of the Maison, which has turned into an empire of luxury: now it distinguishes the brand of the LVMH group. The jewels, with a very geometric design, have a preference for white gold, diamonds and onyx. The collection is not very large: it includes eight pieces and includes a necklace entirely encrusted with diamonds, including a two-carat pear-cut diamond in the letter V. The collection is also connected, in some way, to the Acte V High Jewelery of 2014 and includes two sets of rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces.

Collana art déco con diamanti e onice, con al centro un diamante triangolare

Bracciali della collezione Pure V con diamanti e onice

Anelli della collezione Pure V con diamanti e onice

Collana della collezione Pure V con diamanti

Orecchini della collezione Pure V con diamanti

TTF, with value from China

Published on April 8, 2021

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Collana Water Rythm, in titanio, giadeite imperiale, 33 rubini, 133 diamanti yellow, 92 diamanti bianchi

TTF, high jewelery created and designed in China grows and it’s celebrates in Paris.

The jewelery market in China grew by 22% per year from 2009. It now has slowed but is still expected an average of 5% per year according to HSBC (Anglo Chinese bank) forecast for each of the next three years. This brief introduction to explain why in China are growing Maison that not only produce jewelry, but will advance in high jewelery. As in the case of Frank Wu, designer in Shenzhen, a city not far from Hong Kong, who in 2008 he founded TTF. The acronym stands for Today, Tomorrow, Forever.

In silence, he has earned a reputation that came up in the West: in february 2017 Paris has dedicated him an exhibition with some of his pieces and in the French city he is landed with a boutique on Rue de la Paix, just a short walk from the Place Vendôme. Actually the design team of TTF collects not only Chinese professionals, but also from Italy, France, America, Korea and China. In all, more than 40 talented designers and 400 craftsmen. Its status is what allows TTF to participate regularly at Baselworld in Hall 2.1, the one reserved for big brands. Not only the top jewelry, in any case: TTF is preparing to break into the fine jewelry market, which has a lot of buyers (and it’s more affordable). That the domain of the great European Maison is threatened?

Collana From Spring to Autumn in oro rosa, diamanti, giadeite orange, 118 zaffiri rosa

Collana con perle, diamanti e zaffiro cabochon

Collana ispirata al ramo di bambù in oro bianco, diamanti, giada

Orecchini in oro bianco, diamanti, rubini, giada

Spilla a forma di fagiano con diamanti, zaffiri, giada

TTF, alta gioielleria, collana con giada e diamanti

Spilla con giada, oro rosa, rubini, diamanti

Spilla con rubellite, diamanti, oro rosa

Anello Lotus, in oro bianco, diamanti, zaffiro

The virtuosism of James Ganh

Published on April 7, 2021

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Collana con turchesi, smeraldi, diamanti

The precious games of a virtuosism engineering applied to jewelry: James Ganh.

He is born in the region of Canton, China, the son of an industrialist active in the processing of precious stones. But he lives in London, having studied at Central St Martins. Now he has a Chinese surname and a very British name, James Ganh. And is also the synthesis of what is his philosophy: “Combine in one sense the eastern and western beauty.” But, watch out, here comes the fun. Because James Ganh is not simply an aesthetic connoisseur of the East Country and that on the Thames.

James Ganh, spilla castello con diamanti e zaffiri attorno a una tormalina Paraiba

It is an engineer who has been able to impress more than an expert with his innovative technique. And to think that he entered the world of luxury jewelry only in 2008. After his studies he started working in the sales department of Faberge in London. And now Fabergé has called him to design a collection. But it managed to propose a complicated rotary mechanism for the famous egg, now owned by Gemfileds. The project, however, has not been completed due to a complicated matter of patents. The experience in the Russian origin Maison, with eggs that contain surprises and thanks to goldsmith virtuosity, have haunted Ganh in innovative solutions.

The debut was a jewel, The Time Traveller, called “a point of reference in the modern world of extravagant jewelry.” Time travel means a jewel that is transformed, assembled and disassembled as a game, in a complicated system of joints. From there, with its brand, Ganh followed the road jewelry based on one-off pieces: exceptional stones and exquisite designs, no repetitions. Often her jewelry can be used in different ways, as the tiara that becomes a bracelet or ring that bends. Almost games, but luxurious. Giulia Netrese

Anello con turchesi e diamanti per Fabergé

Anello con smeraldo e diamanti per Fabergé

Anello con rubellite non trattata e diamanti

Butterfly collection, spilla con diamanti e zaffiri colorati

Orecchini con diamanti e smeraldi su oro bianco

Orecchini Olivia in argento e zaffiri verdi

Orecchini Rainbow con diamanti e zaffiri multicolori

Bracciale che si allarga e diventa una tiara. Oro 18k, diamanti bianchi, ametiste, tormaline, peridoti, topazi, giallo e zaffiri blu

Anello con al centro uno smeraldo da 55 carati

Roses bloom with Dior

Published on April 6, 2021

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Anello in oro rosa e bianco, diamanti, spinelli rosa, zaffiri rosa e tsavoriti

The roses in the gardens bloom in spring. And also those of high jewelery. The roses, in this case, are those of Dior and its artistic director Victoire de Castellane, who created RoseDior, a new collection of 54 pieces of high jewelery that arrives just ten years after the Bal des Roses collection. The recurring predilection for the most romantic flower is due to Christian Dior’s passion for the roses in his childhood garden in Normandy. On the other hand, the designer’s native residence has already inspired other collections of the Maison. Should we explain that jewels reproduce, with creative license, the shape of roses? This is obvious.

Anello della collezione RoseDior in oro bianco, giallo e rosa, platino, diamanti, spinello rosa, smeraldi, tsavorite, zaffiri blu, rosa e gialli

But, of course, the style, the craftsmanship and the wealth of details make the difference. In addition to the jewels, there is also a bracelet-watch with a secret dial, which is discovered by rotating a surface of small diamonds. There is no shortage of transformable jewels, such as the rose gold necklace with a diamond rose that can be separated and worn as a brooch, or a necklace with a ruby flower that turns into a bracelet. It goes without saying that the theme of roses has been interpreted with great use of precious stones: from diamonds to Paraiba tourmalines, from sapphires to emeralds.

Collana in oro-giallo, platino e oro bianco, diamanti, smeraldi e granati tsavorite

Orecchini RoseDior in oro bianco, diamanti e tormaline tipo Paraiba

Orecchini in oro bianco, giallo e rosa e diamanti

Bracciale-orologio segreto in oro rosa e bianco, diamanti, zaffiri rosa e tsavorite

Orecchini RoseDior in oro rosa e bianco, diamanti, zaffiri rosa

The return of Fawaz Gruosi

Published on April 2, 2021

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Al centro, Fawaz Gruosi a Cannes nel 2017, in una delle sue celebri feste

He was the creative director, and above all the founder, of one of the most dazzling Maison of high jewelery: de Grisogono. But at the end of 2018, somewhat surprising all, Fawaz Gruosi had left the ginervrina company. It was then understood why: the owners, the Angolese citizens Sindika Dokolo and Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the former Angolan president, had messed with the accounts. To put it mildly. After that chapter, Fawaz Gruosi is back on track with a Maison that has his name, this time in London, in Berkeley Square. The years have passed, but not the creative flair of the jeweler. The pieces of high jewelery proposed are of an exceptional fantasy and quality. Impossible not to notice the unmistakable style of Fawaz Gruosi, who in her previous professional life was able to combine super luxury with a spectacular use of materials. Starting with black diamonds, which Fawaz Gruosi was the first to use in high jewelery.

The fame of the jeweler, however, is also linked to his sociability, to his famous parties among models, actresses and showgirls, to the collections presented during the Cannes Film Festival. Will he now replicate the rise to success with the new brand? It is too early to tell. In any case, the jeweler is used to being reborn. He was born in Florence to an Italian mother and for this reason he also knows the Italian language. He started working early: at 16 he was in the Florentine Torrini jewelry, more to help his family after the premature death of his Lebanese father than out of passion. But that experience taught him the secrets of the trade. He began his rise in Saudi Arabia with Harry Winston, then worked for Gianni Bulgari before founding de Grisogono in 1993. Now he starts (almost) from scratch.

Orecchini Eternel con perle di smeraldi e rubini

Anello su modello di un riccio di mare, con una rubellite taglio smeraldo, incastonata su un opale rosa intagliato, diamanti

Enlaced collection, orecchini in oro rosa

Al centro, Fawaz Gruosi a Cannes nel 2017, in occasione di una delle sue celebri feste

The precious flower of Sicis

Published on March 26, 2021

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A new high jewelery ring signed by Sicis. Those who know the brand from Ravenna (Italy) know that the specialty of the house are micro mosaics: tiny glass tiles that are meticulously placed together to form figures and geometries on the jewels. In the high jewelery line, this ancient technique is accompanied by the use of gold and precious stones. As in the case of the last piece, called Bohemian Dream, in which diamonds coexist with the micro mosaic to form the pistils of a large flower. It is a unique piece, which is added to the other high jewelery creations.

Sicis jewels are considered among the most original and innovative in the jewelry scene. They are the result of the work of the Sicis creative director, Gioia Placuzzi, who joined the family business after graduating from Bocconi University in Milan in Business and Management and specialized in Marketing and Strategy at the Cass Business School in London. But, after a traditional managerial career within the Italian company, Gioia Placuzzi studied the secrets of precious stones and became a Free Gemologist at the Gemological Institute of America in London. Then, she started work with the Sicis Jewel division of the Italian company. In 2018 she became the creative director with the aim of growing the Sicis brand and business of jewelry and watchmaking, enhancing the special micromosaic atelier inside the company: a centuries-old technique that now lives a second youth.

Lavorazione dell'anello Bohemian Dream — Lavorazione dell’anello Bohemian Dream

Bozzetto dell'anello — Bozzetto dell’anello

Collana di alta gioielleria con micromosaico rosa, viola e blu in diverse forme, zaffiri rosa e viola, diamanti

Particolare di una collana in micromosaico, oro bianco, diamanti e calcedonio

Anello in micromosaico, oro bianco, diamanti bianchi e neri, zaffiri rosa

Francis de Lara, high jewelery for the eyes

Published on March 11, 2021

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Anello in oro, rubino, ametista, diamante brown, opale nero

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In Florence he studied jewelry design. But then John-Paul Pietrus became an acclaimed fashion photographer. Having achieved success, however, he decided to return to his first love and launched his own jewelry brand, Francis de Lara. With a particular aspect: alongside the classic earrings and rings, he also offers jewel-glasses. They are unique pieces that, next to polarized lenses, show off gold and precious stones, as well as present an innovative design. They take between 250 and 750 hours to make: some even have clear lenses, to be worn in the evening.

The style of the photographer-designer is also surprising when it comes to jewelry. In many pieces it is easy to guess an inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, an artistic era particularly dear to John-Paul Pietrus. As in the Adam & Eve earrings, which consist of an apple made up of an amethyst and a fig leaf in gold. Or the Safari Sunset Bloom ring, a unique piece based on the Safari Sunset flower seen through the eyes of the Renaissance, with red rubies, an orange fancy brown diamond, amethyst and yellow gold. The center of the flower is dotted with an en tremblant black opal, with red and green fire.

Occhiali con lenti polarizzate, oro 18 carati, rubini

Occhiali in oro giallo 24 carati, diamanti cognac, zaffiri rosa, tormalina rossa

Orecchini in oro bianco e giallo, peridoto, diamanti gialli

Il retro dell'anello — Il retro dell’anello

Sabine Roemer, high jewelery for high society

Published on March 10, 2021

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Ear cuff in oro bianco, tormalina rosa, opale rosa e diamanti

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You attend the London high society. But she also has a social sensibility: Sabine Römer (name that is more often spelled Roemer, because the Anglo-Saxon language does not know how to use accented vowels) years ago she collaborated with the Nelson Mandela Foundation designing jewels to be auctioned for the Mandela charity Day. Morgan Freeman bought a piece of fine jewelry: Masincedane, a word that means “the hand that helps others”. The actor then wore a Sabine bracelet to the Academy Awards Africa. Sabine Römer (or Roemer) lives in London, is married to the financier Andras Szirtes and has two daughters.

At 30, after working for Stephen Webster, she launched her first high jewelery collection, Arabian Nights, at Harrods in London in 2020: 22 unique pieces inspired by the tales of the One Thousand and One Nights. Her jewels could only be viewed by appointment. A hawk hood (used for hunting) was quickly sold to a sheikh of an Arab royal family. They are pieces of high jewelery that have conquered London. And it is not common for a German, graduated from the prestigious Pforzheim jewelry school, founded in 1877 as the Grand Ducal School of Crafts. At 15 she had already created her first ring, while she was following an apprenticeship from a master goldsmith.

Bracciale rigido a forma di piume Sharyar, un pezzo unico realizzato in oro giallo 18 carati e diamanti

Her skill and the meeting with the small London elite then helped to bring out her refined creativity. He has also collaborated with his jewels with personalities engaged in philanthropic actions, such as Damian Aspinall (English businessman and environmentalist), the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William and the second Lord Snowdon, David Linley: For them he created unique jewels , true works of art, with the aim of funds for charitable activities.

Orecchini con ametista, diamanti, ioliti

Orecchini in oro bianco con tormaline e diamanti

Spilla in oro bianco con diamante fancy yellow

The New York of Rina Limor

Published on March 7, 2021

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Anello con tanzaniti cabochon per 19,230 carati

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The couture jewels (and beyond) by Rina Limor, a New York designer who was inspired by Dolce Vita.

As it says Dolce Vita in New York? To find out, the jewelry designer Rina Limor in the seventies has spent long periods in Italy. But, besides admiring the Tuscan landscape, the artistic beauty of the city (and, hopefully, also the kitchen), she has occupied the time by contacting material manufacturers for jewelery, goldsmiths, setters, and so on. The pleasure of the style of Italy’s pleasure-loving, along with her creativity and to the American taste for conspicuous jewelry, has created the style of Rina Limor, now established signature in the panorama of the New York luxury. His proposal is quite wide, ranging from tubogas bracelets or large chains, spare special couture line.

Emeralds, rubies, diamonds and Paraiba tourmalines are used unsparingly. As in jewelry made with a cluster of stones, in some cases cut with fancy shapes, that is, outside of the traditional standards. The effect is unusual, but pleasant. Prices, of course, are what you can expect for luxury jewelry in New York. Giulia Netrese

Anello Calypso in argento e zaffiri multicolori

The myths of Volund

Published on February 22, 2021

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Orecchini in oro giallo 18 carati, diamanti, opali, smeraldi

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In the Norse mythology of the ancient Germanic peoples, Völund was a blacksmith god, with a strong but also brutal character. But today it’s also the name of a high-end jewelry company based in Vancouver, Canada. The choice of the name that refers to the atmosphere populated by Valkyrie and elves, Volund, is by Nick Koss, great-grandson of a master jeweler at the court of the tsars, which he evokes in an equally mythical way. The magical world of the North, however, is the result of his origins: the jeweler was born in Siberia to Swedish and Finnish parents, and grew up spending time in museums, where he was struck by jewels and artifacts of the ancient Germanic peoples.

Spilla-pendente in oro bianco 18 carati, diamanti, perle di Tahiti, pietre di luna

From this experience comes Volund’s desire to create jewels, particularly elaborate unique pieces, small precious sculptures. But also small objects made with the same goldsmith techniques. To maintain this high level, the company creates only ten to twenty unique works every year. The ambitious goal is to create objects that defy time and are recognized and admired even in the coming centuries. A bit like the fate of the blacksmith god Völund is been.

Volund, anello a forma di testa di leone in oro 18 carati, diamanti e smeraldi

Anello Algu in oro 18 carati, due alessandriti, diamanti e rubini

Anello cocktail in oro bianco 18 carati con diamanti

Anello cocktail in oro 18 carati con tormalina Paraiba e rubini

Orecchini chandelier in platino e oro bianco, con avorio di mammut e diamanti

The jewels of the mythical Ofir

Published on February 17, 2021

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Spilla in oro bianco e giallo, con diamanti bianchi, corallo, occhio di falco (quarzo) e rubino

Valenza-Paris and back. The story of Alberto Vaccari and his company, Ofir, began in the 1950s on the road that leads to the French capital and the jewelery district in Piedmont. The jeweler, after having learned the most refined techniques of high jewelery, which were the daily bread of the Maisons of Place Vendôme, returned home to put into practice what he had learned. The fruit of his initiative was the foundation of Alberto Vaccari & C. Ofir, instead, was born in 1989, with the collaboration of his son Manuel, a competent gemologist.

Spilla in oro bianco, diamanti bianchi, diamanti neri, diamante giallo, onice, perla di Tahiti

More curious is the choice of the name of the company, Ofir. The word, in fact, is a biblical quote. Ofir was a port or region famous for its wealth: King Solomon received a shipment of gold, silver, sandalwood, precious stones, ivory, monkeys and peacocks from Ophir every three years. Apart from the monkeys and, perhaps, the peacocks, the idea of evoking a mythical place where gold is abundant, was successful and Ofir is able to produce and offer high quality jewelry.

Orecchini in oro rosa con pietra luna, diamanti neri

Orecchini in oro rosa con diamanti bianchi e neri

Collana con pendente in oro rosa, diamanti bianchi e neri con brunitura

Anello in oro rosa con una antica moneta romana che raffigura l'imperatore Traiano — Anello in oro rosa con una antica moneta romana che raffigura l’imperatore Traiano

Anello in oro bianco con diamanti neri, pietra luna nera

The too brief art of Frédéric Zaavy

Published on February 13, 2021

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Bracciale Nymphéas composto da 5.000 gemme, tra cui diamanti, granati demantoidi, alessandriti

Remembering the jewelers who have left their mark on the world of jewelry is important. And Frédéric Zaavy (1964-2011) is one of them. A book was recently dedicated to the designer, that photographs the work of one of the most imaginative and refined artists. Zaavy represented the third generation of a family of diamond traders. Born in Paris, after the École des Arts Appliqués and the École des Beaux-Arts, he decided to devote himself to the creation of extraordinary unique pieces instead of joining the family business.

He has also traveled extensively in search of precious stones to use as the colors of a painter’s palette. And the comparison is not accidental: one of his most famous pieces, the Nymphéas bracelet, was created with 5,000 gems including diamonds and sapphires, and is inspired by the paintings of the Impressionist painter Monet. He started his business together with his Taiwanese partner, Lisa Chen, with whom Zaavy set up a Maison active in the Far East. To then return to Paris, after the separation.

Anello con diamanti e gemme colorate di Frédéric Zaavy

Frédéric Zaavy also worked extensively for Fabergé, the historic high-end jewelery brand: he became the exclusive jeweler for the Maison in 2008. The Fabergé brand secured the copyright for 45 of Zaavy’s pieces, as well as 55 additional pieces commissioned: jewels that have had valuations between 40,000 to 7 million dollars. Work now photographed on the book Stardust: The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire Frédéric Zaavy, published by the Milanese publishing house Officina Libraria, which traces the too brief work of the designer with many images.

Stardust: The Work and Life of Jeweller Extraordinaire Frédéric Zaavy

Anello in oro e argento con diamanti e sfene, chiamata anche titanite

Colors and suggestions of Tiffany’s Blue Book 2021 collection

Published on February 11, 2021

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Collana in platino con gemme multicolori e diamanti

Every year Tiffany is able to get admiring glances with her Blue Book, a collection of high jewelery that keeps the reputation of the New York Maison high. This year, the Blue Book 2021 collection by Tiffany & Co. is called Colors of Nature and is a kaleidoscope of gems that includes jewels of the highest quality, declined on four themes: earth, sea, earth and sky. In particular, the Blue Book Collection combines the creations of the historic designer Jean Schlumberger with the high-end jewelry designs of Tiffany. But the protagonists, more than the botanical elements evoked by the collection, are the extraordinary stones with which the jewels are made: green tourmalines, rare Colombian emeralds, aquamarine, tsavorite, spinels, kunzite, orange sapphires and, of course, many diamonds are the gems used for the collection.

There are also jewels, such as a couple of necklaces, which use the full range of colors offered by these gems. A butterfly-shaped brooch in 18k yellow gold, on the other hand, uses purple sapphires and diamonds. The most precious stone is a diamond of over 21 carats purchased in Lesotho, Africa: the artisans cut the internally flawless diamond into a marquise shape.

Anello in oro, diamanti e ametista in un prezioso cofanetto

From the designs of Jean Schlumberger derives instead a platinum necklace with over 85 carats of diamonds. In all there are 130 pieces. In case you are interested, know that the price of these jewels varies from a minimum of $ 50,000 to over 5 million. The collection also represents the swan song of Reed Krakoff, creative director of Tiffany who will leave the Maison after the change of management due to the passage under the wing of the LVMH group.

Anello in platino con una tormalina Paraiba di oltre 11 carati, con cofanetto in oro 18 carati

Anello in oro e diamanti, con un grande opale nero al centro

Bracciale con diamanti bianchi e fancy yellow

Collana con diamanti. Al centro, un grande diamante pendente taglio marquise

Spilla in oro giallo con diamanti e zaffiri viola

Wild nature in De Beers high jewelery

Published on February 9, 2021

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The charm of diamonds … Does it need to be described? You need remember it? To embroider on it? No, but it is nice that a stone so loved for hundreds of centuries is transformed into small masterpieces if it happens in the right hands and minds. For Céline Assimon, new CEO of De Beers, diamonds are the usual business. Which, at times, can become special. As in the case of the new large collection of high jewelry Reflections of Nature, divided into 39 pieces and five lines: Okavango Grace, Motlatse Marvel, Namib Wonder, Landers Radiance and Ellesmere Treasure. The subject is nature or, more properly, African nature, the land from which De Beers extracts diamonds. The wild lands of Botswana and Namibia thus become evocative jewels, made with all shades of fancy diamonds: yellow, brown, green, pink.

An example above all: the Motlatse Marvel bracelet, made up of 158 diamonds for a total of 26.98 carats, which recalls the scorching sun of Africa and the subtropical environment of the South African Motlatse Canyon. Or the Namib Wonder set, inspired by the dunes of the Namibian desert, with jewels that use diamonds with yellow and white shades. Or the ring from the Okavango line, with green and pink diamonds, which seem to have been extracted from the lands of the African river delta. A collection that adds rare gems with suggestions of distant lands and still unknown to most of the world. And for this even more fascinating.

Orecchini Okavango Grace, con due file di diamanti bianchi tondi brillanti e due file di grezzi verdi e rosa che sfumano da tonalità scure a più chiare, terminando in un diamante tondo brillante rosa

Orecchini Landers Radiance, con un peso totale di 7,50 carati

Bracciale Namib Wonder con diamanti con un peso totale di 21,32 carati

Medaglione Ellesmere, composto da 478 diamanti

Anello Landers Radiance, con diamante centrale di forma ovale arancione fancy brown da 1,01 carati

Bracciale Motlatse Marvel, composto da 158 diamanti per un totale di 26,98 carati

Anello con diamanti bianchi e gialli Namib Wonder

Venice transformed into high jewelry by Chanel

Published on February 8, 2021

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Orecchini Volute Croisière, con diamanti e rubini

High jewelery among the canals, the luxurious palaces, the evocative views of Venice. Chanel has decided to transform the myth of the most famous lagoon city in the world into a collection that includes 70 pieces. The collection is called Escale à Venise and the Italian city was chosen not only for its beauty, the uniqueness of its architecture and the atmosphere that reigns in the alleys, but also because it was loved by Mademoiselle Coco, the founder of the Parisian Maison. Coco Chanel discovered Venice in 1920, after the accidental death of her great love, Boy Capel. The great French designer was fascinated, like many others, by the beauty of the city and now, 80 years later, Patrice Leguéreau, director of the jewelry creation studio, has revived those emotions through jewels.

And it is not the first time, because Chanel was already get an allusion to Venice with the Sous le signe du lion collection in 2013. Architecture and the typical elements of the city, such as the colored striped poles that serve to moor gondolas and boats, become high jewelry. In the collection, as in the Cathedral of San Marco, there are also oriental suggestions, the result of the trade of the ancient Venetians across the Adriatic Sea. As in the case of the Camélia Byzantin plastron, with yellow sapphires surrounding a flower with gemstone petals. Other jewels, on the other hand, seem to allude to the golden age of the Venetian eighteenth century. There is also the silhouette of the lion symbol of the city, made up of diamonds.

Orecchini Lion Secret in oro bianco e diamanti

Collana Eblouissante in oro bianco e rosa, diamanti

Orecchini Eblouissante in oro bianco e rosa, diamanti

Bracciale Volute Croisière, collezione Escale à Venise by Chanel

Anello Ruban Canotier in oro, diamanti, smalto

Anello doppio Volute Venetienne in oro rosa, diamanti, smalto, perla

David Morris’ new high jewelry

Published on February 7, 2021

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Anello cocktail Azure, con una tormalina paraiba blu elettrico di 16 carati

Times change and the health emergency forces even the most famous Maison to focus everything on e-commerce. This is the case of David Morris, a London Maison also famous for making jewels for the James Bond film series and various pieces commissioned by royal families. Now, however, it is the turn of Renaissance, a high jewelery collection presented not in the showroom, but on the Farfetch web portal, which already hosts the jewels of the English brand. The collection consists of 13 pieces, four of which will be available for purchase directly online, while the others will be sold through the retailer’s private customer services. One of the highlights of the Renaissance collection is the Rubia choker necklace, with white cabochon rubies and diamonds, made with over 380 carats of the rarest Burmese rubies of an intense red color. The necklace is paired with earrings that combine 32 carats of extraordinarily deep red rubies and white diamonds in a variety of cuts.

Anello cocktail Aura con opale nero e diamanti

David Morris’s initiative is also a sign of how online jewelry purchases no longer only concern fine jewelry collections, but also more expensive pieces. Farfetch already has partnerships with luxury jewelery houses, such as Chopard, De Beers and Tag Heuer. David Morris, who in the past presented his collections during the haute-couture week in Paris, represents another blow scored by the portal.

L'anello Azure indossato — L’anello Azure indossato

Collana Rubia, con oltre 380 carati dei più rari rubini birmani e diamanti

Van Cleef & Arpels, stellar high jewelry

Published on February 5, 2021

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Collana ispirata alla comete di Halley in oro bianco 18 carati, diamanti e un diamante fancy vivid yellow taglio a pera da 11,29 carati

Many jewels and super watches among the stars of Van Cleef & Arpels. The Parisian Maison presented a new high jewelery collection that has the sky as a source of inspiration during couture week. The stars, in fact, are one of the favorite subjects of jewelers, but the problem is knowing how to treat this subject with creativity and originality. Mission accomplished for Van Cleef & Arpels, who put together a galaxy of 150 pieces. The collection is called Sous Les Étoiles and required an enormous amount of work for the Maison’s designers and craftsmen. The stars of the collection are seen through a telescope that turns into a magnifying glass and brings satellites, planets and comets into contact with the skin of the wearer.

The renowned ability of the Van Cleef & Arpels laboratories to create even the most complicated pieces is manifested in the creation of some modular jewels, with necklaces that include brooches or host the gem of a ring, up to 11 variations for the same jewel. A necklace that is a tribute to Halley’s Comet features a vivid yellow fancy diamond, with a tail made up of white and yellow diamonds. The central yellow diamond can be removed and used on a ring.

Una cometa composta da zaffiri, rubini e diamanti

Haute horlogerie, on the other hand, is represented by Planetarium, a timepiece in 18-karat white gold, yellow gold and pink gold with colored sapphires, spessartite garnets, black spinels, aventurine, pink mother-of-pearl, turquoise, enamel and diamonds and self-winding mechanical movement with Christiaan van der Klaauw planetary module: a great little masterpiece. The last interesting detail is the hour that marks.

Planetarium, bracciale orologio in oro bianco 18 carati, oro giallo e oro rosa con zaffiri colorati, granati spessartite, spinelli neri, avventurina, madreperla rosa, turchese, smalto e diamanti e movimento meccanico a carica automatica con Christiaan van der Klaauw

The Sous Les Étoiles collection, among other things, continues a tradition of the house on Place Vendôme, which has already drawn on the celestial sphere as an inspiration for fine jewelry. Here, moreover, there is no lack of historical and literary references, from Jules Verne to the 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler (Italianized in Kepler) or to the French scholar Camille Flammarion. And the result is stellar.

Orecchini Céphéide con tanzaniti, tsavoriti, zaffiri violacei, calcedonio

Collana Céphéide con tanzaniti, tsavoriti, zaffiri violacei, calcedonio. L'elemento pendente è staccabile — Collana Céphéide con tanzaniti, tsavoriti, zaffiri violacei, calcedonio. L’elemento pendente è staccabile

Collana Ciel de Minuit in oro bianco 18 carati, lapislazzuli, zaffiri e diamanti

Anello tra le dita in oro bianco 18 carati, oro rosa, zaffiri, turchese e diamanti

Passion and Mont Blanc in the new Buccellati high jewelery

Published on February 4, 2021

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Anello Passione, in oro bianco e giallo, rubellite di 10,72 carati

The passion of the Buccellati Maison consists in proposing a style that is renewed over time, but is always faithful to its origins. So it is perhaps not surprising that one of the pieces that attracted the most attention in the new high jewelery collection presented during Paris Couture Week 2021 is called Passion. It is a ring in white and yellow gold, with a 10.72 carat rubellite and diamonds. In the same collection, another creation that sparked the imagination is, instead, the Polvere di Luna set, which includes a necklace combined with light pendants.

The style is the unmistakable one of the Maison founded by Mario Buccellati a little over a century ago and now directed from the creative point of view by Andrea Buccellati (the property is instead of the Richemont group). Another piece in full Buccellati-style is the Mont Blanc ring, which replaces the snow on the summit with a pearl that rises from a zigzag design surrounding the yellow gold bezel. It goes without saying that the classic embroidery of bracelets, earrings and necklaces is not lacking. On the other hand, it is the Maison’s factory stamp.

Bracciale in oro bianco e giallo, e diamanti

Anello Monte Bianco, in oro, diamanti e perla

Bracciale in oro bianco e giallo, zaffiri

Collier Polvere di Luna, in oro bianco e giallo, e diamanti

The nature of Master Exclusive Jewelery

Published on February 3, 2021

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Master Exclusive Jewelery, from the deep Russia a Maison that produces extraordinary pieces ♦ ︎
Izhevsk is a city in Russia, capital of the Republic of Udmurtia, not far from the Ural mountains. In short, a city far from the western centers, but also from Moscow and St. Petersburg. Yet here, in 1994, began the story of Master Exclusive Jewelery founded by Andrey Platonov, a Maison that offers incredible jewels, unique pieces that are fantastic sculptures, often inspired by the world of animals and nature. But the jewelry have not, in this case, modern lines that have some analogy with natural forms.

Just look at small masterpieces such as the fox or the parrot to understand how the spirit is rather that of a naturalism that even seems to evoke the Flemish painters of the seventeenth century. Modern technologies, they explain to Master Exclusive Jewelery, “have opened to the jewelers a large space for experiments and allowed to create real masterpieces”. Translated: the design with the Cad programs and the computing power of the computers facilitate the creation phase of the jewel. Then, however, there is the work of realization, entrusted to the skilled hands of the artisans. The large and medium-sized precious stones also have cuts outside the usual: diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, London Blue topazes, tourmaline, opals, baroque pearls, quartz, are used to compose the shades of feathers, petals or furs of animals or flowers represented. Too bad that the West does not sufficiently know this extraordinary Maison. Rudy Serra

Scoiattolo in oro, perle, zaffiri orange

Panda con perla e diamanti bianchi e neri, smalto

Spilla a forma di uccello con perla, oro bianco, diamanti, pietre di colore

Uccello che succhia il nettare, Oro bianco e giallo, tormaline, zaffiri, rubino, smeraldi, diamanti

Pesce con pavé di diamanti neri e zaffiri

Anello in oro a forma di frutto con peridoto

Coccodrillo con perla, rubini, oro giallo, smeraldi

Bulldog francese, oro bianco con diamanti e perla

Manalys, fantasy in power

Published on February 3, 2021

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Anello Arès in oro bianco, diamanti colorati e bianchi

Animalier jewelry, but not only: in Brussels the Maison Manalys offers a choice of first quality ♦ ︎

She was born in 2009, but in a city that is not under the spotlight of high jewelry lovers: Brussels. It is in the capital of Belgium that you can see Manalys’s jewelry, a Maison founded by the jeweler Moïse Mann.
Designer, fond of precious stones, who travels around the world twice a year, especially in Sri Lanka, Mann wants to offer jewelry that can stand on par with those of the big brands. The more than 20 years of experience in the sector, both in production and in creation, are served him to reach a high level of the pieces he proposes.

For example, in animalier style jewels, which combine technical ability with design innovation.

As in the aries ring, with a perfect pavé of diamonds, immediately bought by a collector. Or in the scorpion-shaped brooch with two intense yellow diamonds, which fights with a spider with a body formed by a large Australian pearl. But even jewels with a more traditional look often offer a glorious combination of premium stones with a design that is often imaginative. Alessia Mongrando

Anello Zip con pietra di luna, zaffiri, diamanti

Orecchini in oro bianco, diamanti, perle australiane

Orecchini in oro bianco, diamanti, acquamarina

Orecchini con calcedonio, diamanti e smeraldi

Granchio con perla e zaffiri rosa e gialli

Bracciale in oro bianco con diamanti rosa, bianchi e gialli

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For example, in animalier style jewels, which combine technical ability with design innovation.