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The winners of the Couture Design Awards

Published on June 11, 2023

Colllana di Peruffo vincitrice al Couture Design Awards

The Couture Design Awards are considered the Oscars of jewelry. They take place during the Couture fair in Las Vegas parallel to the Jck one, and is dedicated to the best jewellery. This year the organizers awarded 14 categories, each of which with three classified. Overall, in short, the jury in charge of selecting the winners identified 42 worthy of mention. The list of winners can be found below. However, there is a brand that is more successful than others: Peruffo. The Italian company ranked first in the Best in Debuting category, but also third in the Best in Editors’ Choice, in Best in Innovative, and again first in the Best in People’s Choice. Another company also collected a double prize, but in a different way. Gismondi 1754 came in second place in the Best in Editors’ Choice category, to which is added the second place of Vendorafa, a newly acquired brand, in the Best in People’s Choice.

Best in Gold
1 ° Viltier
2 ° Cadar
3 ° IsabelleFa

Bracciale in oro e diamanti di Viltier — Viltier gold and diamond bracelet

Best in Colored Gems Above $40,000 Retail
1 ° Aletto Brothers
2 ° Tangarart @ Julls
3 ° Couturemark

Bracciale in oro, malachite e diamanti di Aletto Brothers — Bracelet in gold, malachite and diamonds by Aletto Brothers

Best in Colored Gems Under $40,000 Retail
1 ° Kamyen
2 ° Cicala
3 ° Sylva & Cie.

Orecchini con smeraldi e diamanti di Kamyen

Best in Bridal
1 ° Retrouvaí @ For Future Reference
2 ° Bea Bongiasca @ Muse
3 ° Phillips House

Anello in oro e diamanti di Retrouvai — Retrouvai gold and diamond ring

Best in Diamonds Below $40,000 Retail
1 ° Ondyn
2 ° Eva Fehren
3 ° 64Facets

Orecchini in oro giallo e diamanti di Ondyn — Yellow gold and diamond earrings by Ondyn

Best in Diamonds Above $40,000 Retail
1 ° Etho Maria
2 ° Busatti 1947
3 ° Mattioli

Anello con diamanti di Etho Maria — Etho Maria diamond ring

Best in Haute Couture
1 ° Maison Alix Dumas
2 ° Messika
3 ° Victor Velyan

Spilla di Mad, Maison-Alix-Dumas — Mad, Maison-Alix-Dumas brooch

Best in Pearls
1 ° Persée Paris
2 ° Nomis
3 ° Amrapali Londra

Orecchino con perle e diamanti di Persée Paris — Pearl and diamond earring by Persée Paris

Best in Platinum
1 ° Sorellina
2 ° Henrich & Denzel GmbH
3 ° Diecimila Cose

Collier con perle, diamanti e zaffiri rosa di Sorellina — Necklace with pearls, diamonds and pink sapphires by Sorellina

Best in Below $10,000 Retail
1 ° NeverNoT
2 ° Stephen Webster
3 ° Van @ Muse

Collana in oro con pendente in malachite e opale di NeverNoT — Gold necklace with malachite and opal pendant by NeverNoT

Best in Innovative
1 ° Marie Lichtenberg
2 ° Studio Renn
3 ° Peruffo

Best in Debuting
1 ° Peruffo
2 ° Maison Alix Dumas
3 ° Alexandra Rosier

Best in Editors’ Choice
1 ° Ten Thousand Things
2 ° Gismondi 1754
3 ° Peruffo

Collana con perla di Tahiti di Ten Thousand Things — Ten Thousand Things Tahitian Pearl Necklace

Best in People’s Choice
1 ° Peruffo
2 ° Vendorafa
3 ° David Oscarson

Karen Suen, high jewelery in Hong Kong

Published on February 27, 2023

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Anello con rubellite cat's eye, tormalina, smeraldi, zaffiri e diamanti

At the 2019 Couture Design Awards, Karen Suen won the Best in Pearls category award. The designer, among other things, has a predilection for rare conch pearls. But the jewelry designer does not need this recognition to get on the jewelery stage. Karen Suen made her debut in 2007, and has been very successful since then. The elements of the recipe are those typical of fine jewelry: excellent stone, scrupulously executed goldsmith’s, attractive design. But in addition, Karen puts her own personality into it.

Orecchini con diamanti, perle e conch pearl

A creativity that allowed, in 2013 and 2014, to get another award, this time at the Outstanding Greater China Design Awards. Her brand was renamed Karen Suen in the same year. Between glam and classic jewelry, the design of the brand based in Hong Kong is popular in China, but also in the US and Europe. And there is a reason: her Maison was created in the likeness of the European ones of the early twentieth century, where each jewel is unique in its kind and produced according to the standards of fine jewelry.

Anello con diamanti e granato demantoide

Orecchino pendente con smeraldi e diamanti, Emerald Collection

Collana con smeraldi, diamanti e grand e perla

Anello con diamanti e perla naturale orange

Yannis Sergakis, simple architecture

Published on October 1, 2022

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The Greek designer Yannis Sergakis from the jewelery store at the contemporary art exhibition Documenta 14 in Kassel. And the new collection called Solaire ♦
Among the winners of the Awards at the Couture Show 2016 in Las Vegas it is also Yannis Sergakis (you can read the article here). Yannis is a descendant of a merchant family of Greek diamonds. In short, he touched the diamonds when he was child and he is been convinced. So, once he is grown, he made collection of jewelry and continued the tradition of trading. Let’s face it: trading it is a useful job, perhaps even profitable, but not too much fun. Much better designing jewelry. After studying gemology and design at the Gemological Institute of America, Sergakis has therefore worked in the family business until 2004, when he opted for the creative activity of the designer.

Greece is one of the countries that boasts several new generation jewelers and all follow a style that is simplistic to define minimalist, but that certainly is not Baroque. Sergakis is no different: his jewels are richly minimal. Clean lines, gold and diamonds in neat rows. References that he has revealed are the architecture (the classic one, it goes without saying), textiles, people, senses, shapes, feelings. He works exclusively with gold and diamonds. A simple idea, as the shape of the Parthenon, but not for this less than perfect. A collection, for example, is called Solaire and adopts rounded lines, and uses as a sun a diamond that shines surrounded by gold.
But Yannis Sergakis’s work is also considered in the field of art, not just of jewelery. So much so that in June 2017 he participated in Documenta 14, a 60-year-old exhibition in Kassel (Germany), that hosted over 160 artists. Sergakis contributed with two pieces, each in two colors; one for Athens, one for Kassel.

Pendente della collezione Charnière in oro e diamanti

Orecchini realizzati in oro giallo 18 carati e nero con diamanti bianchi

Ciondolo in oro giallo 18 carati e nero con diamanti bianchi

Anello realizzato in oro 18k giallo e nero con diamanti bianchi

Yannis Sergakis, bracciale per Documenta 14

Eva Fehren, luxury and simplicity

Published on July 25, 2022

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The jewels in black and white (with a pink and yellow) by Eva Zuckerman, designer of Eva Fehren, who won a Couture Awards: essence of New York ♦ ︎
The world is divided into two: those who love color photos and those who appreciate those in black and white. There are two schools of thought, both of them with good reasons, which also meet in jewelery. There are those who draw only wondrous collections of colored stones and elaborate shapes, and those who prefer simplicity. Among the latter, who are standard bearers of minimal philosophy, is the super New Yorker Eva Zuckerman, who founded Eva Fehren and won the Best in Bridal at Couture Awards 2018. Why super New Yorker?

Private ring in oro bianco annerito e diamanti

Because she not only emphasizes that she was born and lives in the skyscrapers, but also has her roots in a precinct Manhattan neighborhood, the East Village. She was born, grown and lived, in short, close to those tall buildings that throw net shadows on the ground. And perhaps this is her source of inspiration: her jewels are agile, with net forms, with no superfluity. Most are also in black and white: dark gold, white diamonds or vice versa. With time it has expanded her offer also to jewelry in pink gold and stones, but always without abandoning its monochrome philosophy, in a perfect mood recalling Woody Allen’s films.

Orecchino a bottone in oro bianco annerito e diamante

The two faces of Gismondi 1754

Published on June 7, 2019

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Gismondi 1754, la collana della collezione Essenza indossata

The jewels of Gismondi 1754, the Maison in Genoa that won a Couture Design Award ♦ ︎

Fine jewelry and high jewelry: the production of Gismondi 1754 travels on a two-track family-run business based in Genoa. La Maison won the Couture Design Awards in the People’s Choice category. A sign that everyone loved the necklace from the Essenza collection, made with a cascade of diamonds and emeralds. But, alongside unique pieces of fine jewelry, Gismondi 1754 also presented more traditional precious jewels, such as the Dedalo collection, in rose gold and diamonds, with geometric grooves running through the metal. A modern line, current, very European, very Italian design, which follows the most famous Aura collection, where the common thread is instead the concentric circles.

Collana con diamanti e smeraldi di Gimondi 1754 vincitrice a Couture Design Awards

Jewels that will be appreciated besides Genoa, the birthplace of the brand and company headquarters, also in the boutiques of Portofino, Sankt Moritz, Milan, Naples, Prague and St. Petersburg, where the brand is present. Giulia Netrese

Anello in oro bianco con acquamarina e diamanti

Collezione Aura, oro rosa e bianco e diamanti bianchi

La collana della collezione Essenza indossata

Anello della collezione Essenza, in oro bianco, diamanti, smeraldo

La nuova collezione Dedalo di Gismondi 1754

Orecchini in oro rosa con zaffiri rosa e diamanti bianchi

Orecchini della collezione Fiocco con diamanti bianchi e zaffiri blu

Orecchini Rugiada con smeraldi da 15 carati e diamanti