New flowers in the Pasquale Bruni Secret Gardens, showed in VicenzaOro. Haute Couture, simpler or retro taste: many different versions in addition to the models shown in Milan for the launch of the collection inspired by the green spaces hidden in the courtyards of the historic residences in Milan (https://gioiellis.com/i-giardini-segreti-di-pasquale-bruni). Double rings with the flowers of four petals by diamond champagne and rose gold, or colorless stones on white gold in the haute couture line which in combination clearer also form a valuable finery. There is a gold necklace flex (a job for which the metal crafted it stores the twist to wear it easily) with six flowers, so the light is assured but the lightness as well. The bracelet is designed contrarié shape, where the opposite is a single leaf, elongated in gold flex, and in two dimensions. And there is also a version without diamonds: the entry level is around 3000 euros. In the pictures you can also see a colored version of the white parure worn by the model at the fair, very stunning. The design is the same, but instead of diamonds are embedded green agate and tsavorites, as cut stones of Mandala necklace. Also in the Haute Couture line here is a new color ring named Mille e una, in this case aquamarine which resting on the bed of a thousand diamonds, gives a mirror effect. The processing of cobblestones is a Maison secret. It is run by combining traditional methods to more with new studies in stone setting. What we see instead is a cabochon, with the back with facets, erratically reminiscent of the flower of the BonTon collection, while the shape of Leaf is by Secret Gardens. Finally, many different combinations with rings and jewelry fully paved or smooth with elongated leaves, drilling worked and rose cut diamonds to give at every woman the opportunity to create your own garden.
A diamond’s guitar as necklace
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For many women (and men) the guitar is not only a musical instrument, but also a symbol of freedom. Now may also be a jewel, as evidenced by Coronet, a brand landed in the US a couple of years ago from the rib of Aaron Shum Jewellery from Hong Kong. Not to be underestimated: at Baselworld 2015 Coronet became the second Asian brand jewelry hosted in the prestigious Hall 1, after Mikimoto in 1996. The company, which has operations base in California, in VicenzaOro September brought a jewel to Guiness, after a world tour past from Switzerland to China: a Gibson guitar from 2 million dollars with diamonds (400 carats), the work of designer Mark Him. It is the result of 700 days of work of a team of 68 people and is the most expensive guitar in the world. But, next to guitar for musicians Aaron Shum Jewellery proposes other with the size of a pendant to be tied to a necklace. Have the silhouette of an electric guitar, are made of white gold and almost completely covered with small diamonds. They will appeal to those who love rock, but also the luxury.
It should be added another aspect: Coronet uses a special technique for cutting stones creates an impressive bright solitaire with only 30 points of diamond. The setting is patented: the diamond has no central peaks and boasts superior light refraction (says Coronet) to reach an optimal brilliance at about one third of the carat weight and a tenth of the price of a lonely equivalent. M.d.B.
The Graff roses garden
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Graff, synonymous with diamonds and jewelry, loves roses. La Maison of New York has created Rosette, a series of necklaces and earrings with pendants that are inspired by the flower most loved, sang and cultivated. This rose garden is composed, as one might expect, with a series of eight pieces of the diamonds, the stone most used, but also emeralds, rubies and sapphires. The petals are composed of corollas with little round cut diamonds, with a central diamond bigger, always with the classic round cut. The pendants are linked to a chain of white gold, often ornamented in turn from precious stones, sometimes with the form of small ribbons. A rose garden full of lights, reflections precious, rarest of the Black Rose.
Bicego, valuable to the green
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Marco Bicego to green. But precious: the color, in fact, is that of emeralds, set in diamond earrings that also fit. The earrings are part of the collection unique and are inspired by a classic taste. The pendants signed by the maison Vicenza are composed of five emeralds and a diamond pin placed on a frame made of 18 carat yellow gold. The cut of the emeralds is “uneven”, that is slightly irregular. Price on request. M.d.B.
Harry Winston flashing
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The thirties continue to fuel the inspiration of jewelry designers, as evidenced by the latest collection of Harry Winston. The American brand, nicknamed “king of diamonds”, has recently opened a boutique in Rome, Via Condotti. And this collection, adopting a style Art Deco revival, makes extensive use of the magical stone that pushes the women to fall in love. The geometry of necklaces, bracelets and earrings, cutting stones and their arrangement, the symmetry between straight lines and semicircles reflect the stylistic choice. All pieces in the collection are made with hand-cut diamonds, held together by a thin structure of platinum. Dazzling. Giulia Netrese
A Talisman for De Beers
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A diamond is forever, even if rough as the one that De Beers has left in its original octahedron shape in the Talisman collection necklace. A 13-carat stone of burnt orange color that marks a return to the high jewelery after four years with new pieces created to celebrate a line born ten years ago. Large medallions, bracelets, earrings and rings where the designer Hollie Bonneville-Barden has entered stones in a variety of shades of green, pink, blue and brown, flush mounted to enhance the natural light combined with other very classic baguette, round, rose cut and other mixed cuts. At the center of the jewel however there is always a colored rough unpolished diamond. An aside to the specialist white diamonds with the aim to reach new customers, less traditional. Perhaps a long shot in style but the company can afford it because as explained its Ceo François Delage, the business grow in double digits, even in China despite the government crackdown, because it seems that Chinese customers tend to De Beers to buy the jewels themselves and not as gifts. Will be available in stores next September, meanwhile here the pictures. Lavinia Andorno
Diamonds at stock exchange in Singapore
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Diamonds come in Stock exchange. You can buy gems for investment, as well as passion and the pleasure of seeing them shine on the jewelry. Just as is the case for gold and, romantically hand, for materials such as oil or copper. But the novelty is that trading on diamonds can be done directly with real stones, not with financial instruments. The business will begin in Singapore in September. The Singapore Diamond Exchange Investment (SDIX) is developing technology exchange for the diamond market in an attempt to create a new asset class for investors, without the need to go through private intermediaries diamonds.
If you want to participate in the diamond market you be ready, however, to shell out a bit ‘of money. In Singapore you can buy and sell “baskets” of diamonds graded and certified in a laboratory, but also individual stones. The supply of the stones will initially assured by India’s Bharat Diamond Bourse. The new platform is the first of its kind in the world and differs from existing systems, such as the Singapore Diamond Exchange, which only allows you to buy diamonds, but not to trade them.
Beware, though: you must be aware that this type of investment is for experts. The diamond prices are chaotic. For example, after the increase in prices, in 2014 the stones already worked fells by almost 9% in 2014, according to estimates by Rapaport, the Bible operators gems. In addition, mark-ups on the price of origin increase the risk. A stone bought and sold wholesale retail can rise in price by an average of up to 200%. In short, investing in the diamond market is not as simple as buying a Bot, although it is probably more enjoyable. Federico Graglia
Fernando Jorge from Rio to London
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Do not be deceived by the name of Fernando Jorge new collection: Stream. It has nothing to do with digital but, on the contrary, is a jump in the real world. That is full of color, with jade, chalcedony, translucent milky quartz and emeralds, full of light with yellow and pink gold and diamonds champagne and brown, and full of energy with its aerodynamic shapes, seemingly simple but highly complex. They are pieces with organic forms, ring pink chalcedony with a row of diamonds for example would look like the teeth of an animal or a jellyfish or the flow stream in fact, of music, a carnival Samba rhythm of his native country, Brazil, where Jorge, who resides in London, produces its jewelry and buy stones. A touch of Vitamin D that will anticipate the summer in the Resort 2016 season. Matilde de Bounvilles
The precious buckles by Ferragamo
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If you liked the Gancio silver jewelry line by Ferragamo, inspired by the metallic element used for sealing bags (https://gioiellis.com/
With Salvini diamonds and rice
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Salvini, group brand Damiani, launched an initiative in favor of Sierra Leone, the African country among the poorest. The project involves the construction of a village self-sustainable. One way to try to solve the underlying problem of the African people. The proposal is called Win a Diamond with Rice – Rice shining, and takes place through a sweepstakes activated during Expo 2015 in Milan. Those who buy the packages of rice Vialone Nano, a good quality of rice, coming from the rice fields of the lower Veneto, can find a diamond Salvini. In all, are ten the packs fortunate. The proceeds from the sale of “rice that shines”, in collaboration with Ente Fiera di Isola della Scala, will be donated to the Club Smart Farm Village. It is a project of “smart farm”, which aims to create a village in Sierra Leone to be self-sustainable thanks to the production of rice. Eliminate hunger, thirst and malnutrition is one of the objectives of Expo Milano 2015. Federico Graglia
Stefan Hafner under microscope
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Acqua line by Stefan Hafner born from a night vision, that of the Trevi Fountain at 3 am, by the suggestion of water movement that hypnotizes everyone who sees it, with the deep blue of the source fading to white foam that refracting to the ground. Then, other journeys and other fountains continued to inspire the designer of the maison, Francesco Cosentino. The ring chevalier Acqua Preziosa is the evolution of this line: a cascade of sapphire drop shaped, with a facet brilliant cut, moving like water. It could not be that blue, Because this is a royal color and the only one able to give that particular softness to the whole», says Cosentino.
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The Panama Diamond Exchange (the 29th of this field in the world) opens under the best auspices, with the perspective of increasing the sale of the jewels in Latin America for about 14% by the end of the decade. A turnover that would amount, estimated at more than $ 9 billion, according to a statement by Judy Meana, vice president of Panama Diamond Exchange (Pde), the first diamonds and precious stones trading place of the South American continent, located into a hub, the Panama Gem and Jewellery Center, which in the future may contain up to 11 thousand jewelry stores.
«The Latin American is a developing market, the figures are very encouraging and it is a sector that will bloom thanks to the fact that the jewelers of the region will have access to a large number and a wide range diamonds, precious stones, semi -preziose, gold, pearls and finished products», explained Meana to the Canadian daily newspaper La Presse. Good news also for the Italian jewelery system, consider that Fiera di Vicenza has signed a collaboration agreement with Pde (https://gioiellis.com/un-canale-panama-per-fiera-vicenza/). But in reality there are those who fear a downside: in fact, as pointed out by the manager, one of the advantages of the center is that buyers no longer have to travel around the world, for example the United States and Europe to find what they need. Then it will no longer be in a position to pay a premium price for something that is second hand. Not only that, the transaction will be tax-free, because the stock market has the status of a free zone. However, the Pde is expected to generate 3,000 direct jobs and 10,000 in related sectors and it will represent 3% of the gross domestic product of the country. And immediately the stockbrokers will be competitive with the Brazilian and Mexican colleagues. Federico Graglia
Stephen Webster gold addicted
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Stephen Webster is undeniably struck by gold since he has been designing jewellery for nearly 40 years, but that is not the only reason why he has named Gold Struck his new collection. He has been impressed by the discovery itself of the Cheapside Hoard, the world’s largest collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery ever found. What struck the British designer is not so much the 500 pieces of exceptional value, but the fact they was unearthed in 1912 by the pickaxes of workmen demolishing an old jeweller’s premises on Cheapside in the City of London. Kind of like discovery of oil gushing from the ground, these jewels have jumped out of a treasure box. In Webster collection dominate amethyst, topaz, tanzanites, rubies, fire opals and sapphires, the same stones of the hidden treasure. But these are set in diamonds, triangles, rectangles, rounds, in short, multi-shaped and sized that orbit harmoniously around a hexagonal, faceted irregularly center stone as if just dug up. The color combinations for ear climbers, two-finger or opened rings, traditional pendants or bracelets, are like Webster’s edgy aesthetics, that is whimsical and robust: the red version with corals, fire opals, diamonds and orange sapphires, the purple one with amethysts, rubies and rhodolite, and the blue one with turquoises, amethysts, blue topaz and tanzanite. Matilde de Bounvilles
(Italiano) Boom in Cina per i gioielli online
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Is booming in jewelry and diamonds sold online. Especially in China, at least as revealed by cross of several studies, the results of which could partially change the widespread opinion that this market is too risky and daunting. The first sign of optimism comes from China Luxury Forecast, the annual publication on the key trends in the luxury market, which notes that 57 percent of Chinese consumers have developed greater confidence in online luxury shopping over the past 12 months compared with the previous year. The reason is partly due to the high rate of dissatisfaction (63%) with retail experience Hong Kong, a very popular destination among luxory shoppers, and in part to the ability to search and find on line brands not available in the country. Not only, consulting firm Bain & Company, estimates that online sells in China will grow by 25% per year, three times more than overall retail. Then there are eBay’s marketing managers, who believe that the average selling price of jewelry and diamond still has room to grow and that the e-commerce of luxury goods is a global trend, with jewelry and watches among the top three categories with the fastest growth. Finally, according to Fortune Character Institute, the Middle Kingdom represents nearly half of global luxury sales. In short it is not unrealistic to assume that China’s e-commerce can be transformed into a golden opportunity. Federico Graglia
AS29, the diamonds according Audrey Savransky
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The homeland of the diamonds is Belgium and is also the home of Audrey Savransky, the designer who created the brand AS29 and represents the fourth generation of the business of the favorite gems of the world.
But the most surprising aspect (the Belgians do not be offended) is that Audrey is also equipped with a good deal of sense of humor, qualities that in the austere streets of Antwerp, among carvers and diamond merchants, is rarer than a stone 100 carats. Audrey is funny because it presents her jewelry as remedies to sadness, like a medicine that can heal any woman and, at the same time, as it be a good ice cream. So much so that the jewels are presented as happy pills, in a pink box full “of instructions for dosage and mode of administration. Contraindications include the possibility of visual impairment due to acute brilliance and the onset of jealousy for those who do not own them.”
Well, jewelry and ironic sense are not an ordinary bread. To this we can add that the jewelry designed by Audrey Savransky are very modern, very portable and, of course, with many diamonds, but also with other stones as sapphires, amethysts and rubies. Rings, earrings and necklaces are shaped like hearts, arrows, flowers, with a modern design, linear. Prices vary widely, but on average it fluctuates from one thousand to 12 thousand euro, just to give a dimension. The jewelry of As29 are for sale in differente place of the world: in France from Colette, Montaigne Market, Bon Marché, Printemps; in Britain from Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Fenwick, Liberty; Brown Thomas in Ireland, Switzerland from Bongénie. And then in Mexico City, Saks 5th Avenue, in the US by Hirshleifer’s and Hong Kong, from Plukka. But you also buy the jewels online. Giulia Netrese
Idea from France: diamonds at meter
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Jewelers hunting for novelty can take note: there is who have thought, to intrigue customers, to sell the diamonds per meter. Or, rather, to the millimeter. The idea is of a Parisian jeweler di Bermudes Joaillerie (http://www.bermudesjoaillerie.com), Dominque Muller. The jewelry is also known for the use an original metal alloy, with which creates some of his pieces: the silverplatinium, dark color, which contrasts with the glimmer of diamonds. And here is the idea of Monsieur Muller: let the customer the choice of how many millimeters he want to embed diamonds in the ring or in the cuff. Each diamond used for this option is long just 1 millimeter in diameter, measure which replaces the count in carats. The color is as clear as possible and stones have no inclusions. In short, they are top quality diamonds, even if they are sold as a ribbon. Matilde de Bounvilles
Swarovski’s Diamonds
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Swarovski crystals become real diamonds. A quantum leap for now tested in US, but that may soon arrive in Europe. Basically, the Austrian group alongside its collection of bijoux goes to high-end jewelry also. His latest collection, in fact, includes diamonds set in jewelry in silver and rose gold and yellow 14-carat. Objective: to conquer women who want to wear jewelry full blown. The prices of bracelets and rings with real diamonds range from 125 to 1,450 dollars (about 110-1200 euro). A strategy that, in fact had already been announced by Swarovski and is part of its program of development of the brand Vision 2020. According to Susan Popper, head of activities related to Swarovski jewelry for North America, that it is “a natural extension “for the company. “We are bringing a new idea in jewelry market. The support of our brand recognized worldwide can consolidate our group to new consumers. The Swarovski jewelery collection will appeal to customers who want to precious jewels. ” According to the manager, the market’s highest level of the jewelry is two to three times what fashion-jewelery. The brand does not intend, however, to give up of bijioux based on the use of crystals.
The new collection has been developed specifically for North America and will be available through selected stores and independent retailers. It is not the first time that Swarovski releases a collection of jewelry: for example, has already launched a range of jewelery in China and has collaborated with designer Matthew Campbell Laurenza through its division Atelier Swarovski. On the other hand, if this business until 1980 Swarovski was 70% represented by crystals, this category now represents only 30% of the business. The company also announced its entry into the field of wearable technology. We will soon see the diamonds Swarovski in Europe? Federico Graglia
Fope offers a thornless rose
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It may well be a wild flower, but has rounded its thorns: here the new version of Wild Rose by Fope. The collection launched in 2014 has become softer in its outlines, with thin bands of gold interspersed with rows of diamonds and spaced each other. In short, it is more airy and so contemporary to remember, especially in the oversized ring, the architecture of the Opera House in Sydney, one of the most famous buildings in the world. Another novelty in pure Fope style is Solo chain in a high-end version: studded with diamonds like the line linea Mia Luce, it becomes a merge of the two. The bracelet (Flex’it model) and the necklace with three flexible chains single color or in white, yellow and pink gold, are held together by a precious spiral in five circles with diamonds. There is also a parure of solid earrings and ring with engraved metal like Diva’s line pattern. Monica Battistoni
The gold wire by Mimi
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Soft like jersey, precious like gold: is the Orofilato collection by Mimì, the brand designed by Giovanna Broggian from the homonymous jewelery company in Milan. That after years of testing has patented a technique to obtain a wire of pure gold 24 carats to be used for weaving and embroidery. The result are original bracelets and rings made of wires twisted in warm tones that contrast with lighter and shiny closures. In the middle, rows of little diamonds enhance the glitter effect. Still wire made the necklace torchon, while earrings are worked at loom like a rope wrapped on heart or hoop shape. Lavinia Andorno
The flowers of Pizzo
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The floral theme certainly does not lack in jewelery, and even in Leo Pizzo production, who has made it a classic, renewing it every year. The Valencia based jeweler, who has three flagship stores (in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, in Rome in Via del Babuino and in Taormina) has made of tradition and quality his flag. In fact, from the precious diamonds petals of Fiori, one of the most important collections of the jewelery company, begins the backward journey in the history of Italian art. Renaissance and Romanic influences which simplify shapes and change the proportions like in parure with a big pistil in diamond pavé and sapphires in the corolla nearly a fantasy sunflower. And yet the pattern of Aurora collection, inspired by the rose windows of cathedrals with colored diamonds that resemble stained glasses and at the same time looks like a flower, however vaguely deconstructed. Just to give a contemporary twist. Matilde de Bounvilles