Barcelona

Pdpaola expands and opens a new flagship store




The brothers Paola and Humbert Sasplugas, founders of the Pdpaola brand, can be satisfied. On Avenida Diagonal, Barcelona’s shopping street, the brand has opened its new flagship store. The store is 230 square meters large and has been designed with a simple layout, which allows customers to move freely and explore the products at their own pace. The atmosphere is inviting and relaxed: customers are invited to linger, experience the brand and its different product universes, as well as participate in events.

Pdpaola, interno dello store di Barcellona
Pdpaola, interno dello store di Barcellona

The store will exhibit all the brand’s collections, including the fine jewelry line, and will also have a space dedicated to the Engrave Me collection, where customers can customize their jewels instantly. Pdpaola was founded in 2014 in the Catalan city and in 2020 it generated a turnover of 24 million euros. But it has no intention of stopping: the company has ambitious expansion plans and currently has over 2,000 stores in a hundred countries and more than 70 employees. Furthermore, the company plans to close 2021 with a turnover of 40 million euros and will continue to focus on its international expansion with the opening of new flagship stores.
I fratelli Paola e Humbert Sasplugas
I fratelli Paola e Humbert Sasplugas

Il flagship store di Pdpaola
Il flagship store di Pdpaola

Interno del flagship store di Pdpaola
Interno del flagship store di Pdpaola

Bracciale in argento placcato oro
Bracciale in argento placcato oro di Pdpaola







Ech Jewelry, novelty with six paws

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Why stop at the concept of beauty when there are also less beautiful people or things in the world? Or, let’s face it, uglies. However, they can be beautiful at the same time. Ech Jewelry is a new brand born in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) that has decided to experiment with the concepts of beauty and ugliness, going beyond the commonly accepted standards. The founder of the brand, the Russian designer Elena Chernyavskaya, has decided to embark on a difficult path between contemporary art and engineering applied to jewelry. The result is jewelry with a modular design. Each Ech jewel, in fact, can be worn alone, or become the basis of a new configuration thanks to a special screw system.

Anello su due dita in oro giallo
Anello su due dita in oro giallo

In addition, the designer has also chosen to debut with a subject that is less usual in jewelry: the world of insects. And here the concept of making the ugly beautiful comes into play, because the collection excludes butterflies, while transforming flies and beetles into earrings, bracelets, rings and necklaces in gold and diamonds, executed with surprising hyperrealism. Very unusual.
Bracciale in oro rosa
Bracciale in oro rosa

Anello in oro rosa
Anello in oro rosa
Orecchini a cerchio in oro giallo
Orecchini a cerchio in oro giallo
Orecchino in oro bianco
Orecchino in oro bianco
Bracciale flessibile in oro rosa
Bracciale flessibile in oro rosa
Bracciale flessibile in oro giallo
Bracciale flessibile in oro giallo







The unpredictable success of La Manso

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Fashion is unpredictable. At the best right now are the recycled plastic bijoux designed by Adriana Manso, 25, designer from Barcelona who founded her brand, La Manso. Bella Hadid, Dua Lipa and Miley Cyrus are three of the celebrities who have chosen to wear colorful, exaggerated, ironic rings. One ring, for example, is called My Ex’s Funeral. Another: Thirsty as Fuck, or there is LSD 25. In short, it is the ideas that count, not the materials. On the website she warns: I’m a girl, not a brand. The rings have rounded and cubic shapes, with pop colors that intersect and have an eighties flavor. The designer was inspired, in fact, by her grandmother’s glamorous acrylic jewelry collection.

Anello Titanic
Anello Titanic

The price is modest: between 48 and 69 euros. The bijoux are sold online and shipped all over the world together with La Manso latex gloves, which in the meantime has expanded its creativity to clips, accessories and designer furniture. Adriana Manso is self-taught: she have not attended fashion or jewelry schools. She has been collecting plastic and working with this material since she was 21. And the name of the brand derives from the way in which schoolmates La Manso called it (la is an article that is equivalent to English the).
Anello Il funerale del mio ex
Anello Il funerale del mio ex

Anello Thirsty as Fuck
Anello Thirsty as Fuck
Anello Lsd 25
Anello Lsd 25
Anello Lime Knuckle Duster
Anello Lime Knuckle Duster
Clip Kehena Beach
Clip Kehena Beach
Anello Jefferson Airplane
Anello Jefferson Airplane








Facet’s traceable jewelry to guarantee who buys

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The Catalan company Facet has developed a system to guarantee those who buy its jewels. In fact, many diamond jewelry buyers are concerned that they will not receive an authentic stone. The spread of synthetic diamonds, created in the laboratory, chemically indistinguishable from those extracted from the earth (but with a different value) has fueled mistrust. This is why jewelers who use natural diamonds are concerned about how to guarantee the authenticity of the stones to those who buy. As did Facet, a large company based in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Facet, in fact, specializes in diamond jewelry and has decided to guarantee the traceability of all its pieces, in particular the diamonds set on rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces in gold, silver and platinum.

Anello in oro bianco 18 carati con diamante taglio ovale e pavé di diamanti
Anello in oro bianco 18 carati con diamante taglio ovale e pavé di diamanti

The Serret family, owner of Facet, thus created Tracemark, a company that controls and verifies the entire supply chain of raw materials, gold and diamonds, which are subjected to a certification of origin and use, production and sale, up to end customer. The traceability of jewels serves not only to guarantee authenticity, but also to achieve the goal of achieving sustainable luxury. Each piece is laser engraved with an identification number and on the label there is a QR code that redirects to a website with all the information about the jewel. Buyers can complete the card by inserting images or texts, to avoid possible falsifications or, if unlucky, to be able to identify them in case of theft.
Anello in oro bianco e diamanti
Anello in oro bianco e diamanti

Anello in oro rosa e diamanti
Anello in oro rosa e diamanti
Bracciale in oro bianco e diamanti
Bracciale in oro bianco e diamanti
Orecchini in oro giallo e diamanti
Orecchini in oro giallo e diamanti
Anello in oro bianco e diamanti baguette
Anello in oro bianco e diamanti baguette

Anello in oro giallo e diamanti
Anello in oro giallo e diamanti







Diamonds in Catalan mode

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There are jewelery brand that you really know little about: it’s the case of Facet, a small empire based in Barcelona and offices in Monaco, Paris and New York. Furthermore, it is also a first-class brand of jewelry, in particular of those made with profusion of stones. It’snt a accident: in fact, the story began just forty years ago at the initiative of Zevi Paz, diamond dealer longstanding. He was used to select the purest diamonds sold in Spain, he widened his eyes on what the diamonds become, that is, elements of jewelery. Indeed, the rumors say that the temptation to expand the activities to the jewelry is from the wife, Miri Paz.

Anello in oro giallo 14 carati e diamanti
Anello in oro giallo 14 carati e diamanti
The fact is that today the company, run by the fourth generation of experts and traders of diamonds, employs over 500 people and made the strategic choice to be the center of the jewelry world. It has its own manufacturing site in India since 2005, it employs 450 people in Europe, and has an established sales force in almost 30 countries. Their latest line of jewelry, you can guess, it’s with diamonds. Giulia Netrese

Anello a tre poli in oro bianco 14 carati e diamanti
Anello a tre poli in oro bianco 14 carati e diamanti
Bracciale in oro rosa 14 carati e diamanti bianchi e champagne
Bracciale in oro rosa 14 carati e diamanti bianchi e champagne
Ciondolo in oro bianco e giallo con diamanti
Ciondolo in oro bianco e giallo con diamanti
Orecchini in oro bianco 14 carati e diamanti
Orecchini in oro bianco 14 carati e diamanti
Orecchini Edge Line in oro giallo e diamanti
Orecchini Edge Line in oro giallo e diamanti
Orecchini in oro giallo e diamanti
Orecchini in oro giallo e diamanti

Bracciale tennis in oro bianco 14 carati e diamanti
Bracciale tennis in oro bianco 14 carati e diamanti







Tous at Baselworld with Bonjour Señorita

Tous was back in Baselworld and greets with the new spring-summer collection: Bonjour Señorita ♦
Tous returns to Baselworld (it’s the third time) with His New spring-summer collection 2017. For the occasion the Barcelona brand specializing in affordable «luxury approachable» (it has more than 500 outlets around the world, in over 50 countries) presents Bonjour Señorita, “a story of hope and passion that invites us to explore and reflect on our experiences in order to ultimately find ourselves”. The story is in the middle between the colors of Cuba and the refined atmosphere of Paris, as the title Indicates two words in French and Spanish. The collection features a series of rings, necklaces, bracelets, brooches and earrings and multi-colored made with titanium, topaz, pearls and synthetic stones. The architecture, the nature and the people of Cuba are the basis of the inspiration of the collection, where does not lack the classic silhouette of the bear, symbol of the firm Catalan. Alessia Mongrando

Tous, pendente o Spilla in argento vermeil, sterlina, madreperla, smalti
Tous, pendente o Spilla in argento vermeil, sterlina, madreperla, smalti
Bracciale con pietra viola
Linea Ivette, bracciale con pietra viola
Linea Eloise, bracciale in vermeil con pietre
Linea Eloise, bracciale in vermeil con pietre
Orecchini in oro bianco, perle e diamanti
Orecchini you and me, in oro bianco, perle e diamanti
Anello in argento con fiocco
Anello in argento con fiocco della linea Jollie
Anteprima della collezione Bonjour Señorita
Anteprima della collezione Bonjour Señorita

The new face of Facet

The new collections of Facet, the company of Barcelona who invented the multi-size system ring.
After the multi-size system ring (Wondersize), which conforms to the shape and circumference of the fingers, for Facet, Maison in Barcelona, is time to celebrate the first 30 years of life. To turn off the candles on the cake, however, did not choose the bustling Ramblas, the mainstreet in Barcelona, but chose Baselworld. At the fair in Basel, Facet introduce a range of solitaire degree adapt up to 4 sizes.

Founded as Facet Pedreros, dedicated to the purchase and sale of diamonds, the company has quickly turned into jewelery brand, and now employs 500 people worldwide. Without forgetting its origin: thanks to a sophisticated analysis software of the stones it has become the largest distribution company for diamonds in Spain. But he sought a role in the world: the jewelry company has opened its factory in Mumbai in 2005.

Now it’s virtually in all the world, with branches in New York, Monaco, Germany and Paris. Its collections, however, are aimed at both a retail audience and wholesalers. In short, it also it works for third parties. At Baselworld, in addition to the rings Wondersize Facet, the company has decided to present the news of 2017. One aspect that will be loved to both individual customers and wholesalers, Facet announced, is the purchase of J-Secure, sophisticated machine that allows detection of synthetic diamonds which can be hidden among the loose stones, or on mounted in jewels. A further guarantee for buyers. Giulia Netrese
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Facet, anello solitaire multi taglia
Facet, anello solitaire multi taglia

Il disegno dell'anello multisize
Il disegno dell’anello multisize

Orecchini pendenti in diamanti della collezione Red Carpet
Orecchini pendenti in diamanti della collezione Red Carpet

Advertising Facet
Advertising Facet
Anelli della collezione Sweet Paris
Anelli della collezione Sweet Paris
Collezione Red Carpet
Collezione Red Carpet
Gli anelli Facet Wondersize
Gli anelli Facet Wondersize
Collezione Minimal
Collezione Minimal
Collezione Facet 2016
Collezione Facet 2016
Collezione Facet 2016
Collezione Facet 2016
Gioielli della collezione 2017
Gioielli della collezione Facet 2017