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Trimoro, from Place Vendôme to Bangkog

Published on December 25, 2021

Anello in oro bianco con ametista e diamanti

The colorful gems of Trimoro jewels: a brand grew in Thailand, but born in France.

The streets of the jewelry are endless. Some, however, go in Thailand: the country called the Kingdom of gems, has long been a crossroads for those who trade in precious stones, but also for those who make jewelry in unknown laboratories. Jewelry, then, that often bear the signature of some Western Maison. It is no coincidence, for example, that Trimoro, based in Bangkok, was founded 25 years ago in Paris by Robert Braun, an expert on precious stones. It is a manufacturer that produces jewelry on behalf of third parties.

Under his leadership the business has grown to evolve into a company that manufactures designer jewelry, based in the Asian country, thanks to the work of 180 highly skilled craftsmen. The Trimoro guide is, however, remained mostly French, with a team of experts with training between Gia and Place Vendôme. Gold, platinum and large colored stones are the main dishes of its menu. But more than open boutiques around the world, the company produces for others, or sells through online channels. Take a look at his catalog, in short, it is almost like peeking into someone else’s house. It can be indiscreet, but fun.

Bracciale in oro bianco, pietre luna, zaffiri e diamanti

Collier in oro bianco, ametiste, spinelli lavanda e diamanti

Anello in oro giallo, citrino, zaffiri gialli e diamanti

Tre anelli con pavé di zaffiri, diamanti e smeraldi

Due anelli con diamanti, rubini, zaffiro rosa

Orecchini con diamanti e ametiste a forma di cuore

Odes of Taj Joaillerie

Published on December 21, 2021

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A pinch of exotic and a lot of ability to design cross-sectional jewels, that is to say, that appeal to different categories of women: Taj Joaillerie ♦

There are brands like Taj Joaillerie, that born casually. This is the case: Rita Chraibi first she followed a course in economics. Then, she worked in a bank, moving among Lima, Mexico City, London and Paris. Later she moved to Dubai (know Arabic, is of Moroccan origin) on behalf of Google. Only after this process of managers in career discovered his vocation for jewelry. And, since the designer is one who does things seriously, she graduated from the GIA, the Gemological Institute of America, where he learned the jobs of jewellery. If you do not know, you can take now a look at his work now.

She started later, but she has recovered time soon. And without denying the origins: its latest collections are an ode to the past, to pay tribute to Morocco, with its handicrafts and arabesques. Each piece, however, starts with the choice of gemstone. And if she does not forget her ethnic origins, she does not forget even what she learned in her first life: she has set up a team dedicated to the design of a new collection every three months. Her jewelry, as well as the careful selection of stones, are distinguished for the specific use of metal: brushed gold, rhodium matt black or bronze, with what it calls a “rebel look.” She directly sells her jewelry also online.

Anello Tourbillon in oro rosa e diamanti

Anello in oro rosa e diamanti bianchi, neri e champagne

Orecchini in oro rosa con diamanti bianchi, granati e zaffiri

Orecchini Endless Love Arabesque in oro bianco con diamanti bianchi

Anello con diamanti taglio brillante e baguette

New trend for Oro Trend

Published on December 20, 2021

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Orecchini in oro 18 carati, diamanti, topazio blu, onice

The new rings, bracelets and earrings with colored stones signed by OroTrend.

Maybe Aldo Bellotto and Sandro Ferraris, founders of Oro Trend in 1980, don’t would have imagined they would sold rings, bracelets and necklaces produced in Valenza in the most remote of the East boutiques. Maybe not. Instead it is exactly what happened: the quality of jewelry, combined with an all-Italian exuberance in the combinations of colors and the choice of volumes, has made the company a strong brand on the international market in a short time, also with the activity is performed for third parties, that is, to other jewelery companies.

Anello in oro 18 carati, diamanti, granato, madre perla

So much so that three years ago the company moved into a larger building, always in the Piedmont town. And to say that the name chosen for the company, Oro Trend, is not particularly evocative of italian tradition and craftsmanship. But what matters is the result. The style of the collections follows the classic models, with some workhorse, like at a twisted gold wire jewelry. There aren’t oddities goldsmith, but the craftsmanship combined with an instinctive ability in approaching the stones.

Orecchini in oro bianco 18 carati, diamanti, onice

Anello in oro bianco 18 carati, diamanti, zaffiri gialli

Bracciale in oro bianco 18 carati, diamanti, onice, corallo rosa

Anello in oro bianco 18 carati, diamanti, onice, corallo rosa

Collana in oro 18 carati, diamanti, pietra luna

This synthetic diamond necklace from Brilliant Earth costs $ 100,000

Published on December 19, 2021

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Collana con diamanti di laboratorio in vendita a 100.000 dollari

Question: Would you buy a synthetic diamond necklace that costs $ 100,000? Brilliant Earth, a San Francisco-based brand that has been offering ethically and sustainably sourced jewelry since 2005, believes the price is right. And he proposes this jewel, which is part of the Solstice collection. The necklace, in white gold and diamonds created in the laboratory for 75 carats, with different shapes (round, pear, marquise), is accompanied by 15 other jewels, always made with the same materials.

Brilliant Earth was founded by Beth Gerstein and Eric Grossberg and has been proposing since the beginning to use conflict free diamonds, selected for their ethical and environmentally friendly origins. The Maison was also among the first to use the blockchain to trace the origin of stones and is part of the Responsible Jewelry Council, a leading ethical standard in the jewelry sector. To make its synthetic stones, Brilliant Earth uses a process known as High Pressure High Temperature (Hpht), with no post-treatment. This process, the company specifies, mimics the conditions for the formation of natural diamonds in the laboratory.

Anello in oro con diamanti di laboratorio della collezione Solstice

Orecchini Brilliant Earth con diamanti sintetici

Collana Brilliant Earth con diamanti sintetici

Annamaria Cammilli adds color to Velaa

Published on December 14, 2021

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Anello della serie Velaa in oro bianco, diamanti zaffiri blu

Since she set sail in the sea of jewelry, Annamaria Cammilli’s Velaa collection has landed in numerous variations. The soft design, which characterizes the Florentine maison, the use of shades of gold and stone pavé have now been applied to a new line of the collection: Velaa Color. The design remains minimal, but adds shades of sapphires, rubies, emeralds and white or fancy diamonds to the warm shades of gold. The different elements are combined in a wide variety of color combinations that play on the combination of precious stones and the typical velvety gold finish, one of the hallmarks of the Maison.

The stones make up strips of pavé between the wavy layers of gold. In particular, a wide variety of rings is presented: for each color combination there are four variations in thickness, from six layers up to a single band of white gold, or yellow, black, champagne pink, beige. The different colors of gold are, in fact, one of the most appreciated characteristics of Annamaria Cammilli.

Pendente in oro arancio apricot con diamanti brown e bianchi

Orecchini in oro arancio apricot con diamanti brown e bianchi

Bracciale in oro arancio apricot con diamanti brown e bianchi

Anello in oro rosa champagne, rodio nero, diamanti e zaffiri rosa

Anello in oro rosa champagne, diamanti e smeraldi

The jewels (and an extraordinary ring flower shape) by Yair Shimansky

Published on December 12, 2021

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Orecchini con diamanti fancy yellow al centro e diamanti baguette bianchi

A couple of years ago, in New York, Vogue Italia organized a reunion of designers sensitive to environmental sustainability for an event entitled The Protagonist. One of the guests was Yair Shimansky. Considered one of the kings of diamonds, Shimansky presented a ring called the Desert Rose, with South African diamonds totaling 24.13 carats, accompanied by 42 tsavorite gems and in the center a crystal of Namibian desert rose, set in gold 18 carats.

The flower is inspired by the Fynbos, the spontaneous vegetation of South Africa. And there is a reason: Shimansky has its headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa, although it has another office-atelier in New York. In addition to being a jeweler, Shimansky also has a diamond cutting and polishing business in Johannesburg. He is, in any case, South Africa’s leading jewelry designer and creator of South Africa’s most iconic diamond ring, the Millennium Diamond Ring, in platinum, which has a classic and modern design. Not only: Shimansky also the author of the Brilliant 10 diamond design, a round brilliant cut stone with 71 facets (usually 57 or 58) developed and patented by Shimansky. This diamond is the only one with balance between fire, brilliance and reflection of 33.33% in each area.

Curiously, Shimansky does not have a family of jewelers or diamond dealers behind him. He was born in Israel in 1967, with a housewife mother and a father in a large shipping company. At the age of 12, he and his family moved to London. Back in Israel, after a series of temporary works he changed his life with the decision to sell diamonds and jewels in Japan. Where, with a difficult internship, he learned the art of cutting and polishing, but also the need for perfection. Finally, he went to South Africa, where his father had moved in the meantime. After a difficult start, with few resources, today Shimansky is one of South Africa’s most popular jewelry brands.

Anello in oro giallo con diamante taglio cuscino

Anello pantera in oro giallo, smeraldi, diamanti

Why are they called diamonds (and 21 more surprising news)

Published on December 11, 2021

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Diamonds, the most known and loved gemstone, hides many secrets: here are 22 of them you need to know ♦ ︎

You know that diamond is the hardest material that exists and it is forever. You also know what the 4 C’s are (and if you don’t know it read here). And you also know that diamonds can also be colored. But there are 22 other amazing aspects of the diamond that you need to know.

1 Do you know why diamonds are called that? The name derives from the ancient Greek word ἀδάμας (adámas), which means unalterable, indestructible, untamed.
2 How long has humanity been searching for and wearing diamonds? According to anthropologists, diamonds were recognized and extracted for the first time in India, between 600 and 300 years ago. Diamonds were found in alluvial deposits along the rivers Penner, Krishna and Godavari.
3 It is well known that the diamond has the maximum hardness. Less known that it also has a high thermal conductivity, that is the aptitude to transmit heat. This is also why diamonds are used in many industrial applications such as cutting and polishing tools.

4 If you can, bring your ear close to a diamond and listen. Well, you need a diamond of a certain size, but know that through this gem the sound passes at the highest speed.
5 Even if diamonds are heat transmission, the gems also has a high electrical resistance. You don’t get thunderstruck through a diamond.
6 Diamonds are hard, but can scratch other diamonds. And this can cause damage to one or both stones. When storing them, make sure that the stones do not collide.

Esame di un diamante a un precedente Dubai Jewellery Show — Esame di un diamante durante Dubai Jewellery Show

7 Another interesting property of diamond: it is chemically inert, ie it does not react with most corrosive substances and also has excellent biological compatibility. No diamond allergy is known (thankfully).
8 Colored diamonds are determined by small defects or impurities inside them. In particular, when the diamond is blue it means that inside it has boron, yellow or brown nitrogen atoms, if it is green it is because it has been exposed to radiation, such as violet, pink, orange or red.
9 Nitrogen, responsible for the yellow and brown color, is by far the most common impurity found in diamonds.

Anello della collezione Cannella, in oro rosa e diamanti brown — Brusi, anello della collezione Cannella, in oro rosa e diamanti brown

10 The diamond also has a high optical dispersion (ability to disperse light of different colors) and for this reason it is so bright.
11 How old are diamonds? Much: most natural diamonds are between 1 billion and 3.5 billion years old.
12 Where do diamonds come from? From the belly of the Earth. Most were formed at depths of between 150 and 250 kilometers in the earth’s mantle and some as deep as 800 kilometers. But today they are found at lower depths, because they have been brought to the surface by volcanic eruptions and deposited in rocks known as kimberlite and lamproiti.

Anello con diamante taglio rotondo di circa 13,70 carati firmato Bulgari

13 You will have heard that diamonds are, in practice, compressed coal. But it’s false. Coal is a material formed from prehistoric buried plants, while most diamonds are much older than the first terrestrial plants. However, it is possible that diamonds can be formed from coal in some particular areas, but the diamonds thus formed are very rare.
14 Would you like to have so many diamonds? Then go into space. Although diamonds on Earth are rare, they are very common in meteorites: about 3% of the carbon found is in the form of nanodiamonds, only a few nanometers (one millionth of a millimeter) large. But, according to astronomers, some extrasolar planets could be almost entirely composed of diamonds.
15 The diamond trade is very concentrated: around 90% of the world’s diamonds are cut and polished in Surat, India.

16 The most precious stones are cut in Antwerp’s cutting and trading centers in Belgium, where the International Gemological Institute is based, in London, in the diamond district in New York, at the Diamond Exchange District of Tel Aviv and Amsterdam.
17 When cutting a rough diamond the weight reduction can be in the order of 50%.
18 Cut a diamond is not easy: the stone can be divided by a single well calculated shot, with a hammer and a pointed instrument. But it is a very risky system. In practice, a precision diamond saw is usually used, which is a more reliable but long system.

19 Colored diamonds are in fashion. But only a few years ago: those browns were a large part of diamond production, but they were used mainly for industrial purposes.
20 Brown diamonds were once not valued on the diamond color scale. But after the development of the Argyle diamond mine in Australia, in 1986, they were considered acceptable gems and used in jewelry.

Selezione dei diamanti nel laboratorio di Antwerp (Anversa) — Selezione dei diamanti nel laboratorio Tiffany di Antwerp (Anversa)

21 The Argyle mine in Australia, with its 35,000,000 carats (7,000 kg) of diamonds per year, produces about a third of global production of natural diamonds. And 80% of Argyle diamonds are brown.
22 What was the biggest diamond theft? It took place in February 2013 at Brussels airport. The thieves fled with gems worth an estimated 50 million dollars. But later the gang was arrested and some of the diamonds were recovered.

Il diamante The Mirror of Paradise, 52,58 carati, D Color, IF, venduto per 6,5 milioni

The high jewelery blooms with La Fleur

Published on December 11, 2021

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The jewelery pieces signed by La Fleur Jewels. Made in Bangkog, it’s hard to guess it, but… ♦ ︎
To say that La Fleur Jewels does not exist is probably wrong. But try searching this company online: you will waste time. Behind La Fleur Jewels, headquartered in Bangkoh, there is one of the many jewelery manufacturers on behalf of many of the great European and American Maison that designs at home and then make the most complex, delicate parts in Thailand. Then microscopic parts of jewels that are assembled at home and thus acquire the right to be classified as Made in … After this premise, it is enough to observe the work with the mystery setting technique, that is, with the setting without griffes of small stones next to each other, to understand that the La Fleur brand is well-versed in this type of workmanship. And, learned the style, the company decided to produce precious jewels with this French-flavored brand.

They are pieces of high jewelery: if instead of the La Fleur brand they had that of some other jewelry brand, nobody would have anything to complain about. And, apart from technique, the design of pins, pendants and rings reminds that of other jewels with other brands. But whoever goes to the substance, and here there is a lot, maybe it will not matter to all this.

Anello a due dita in oro bianco, setting di rubini, diamanti

Orecchini in oro 18 carati, con zaffiri e diamanti

Orecchini a sfera in oro bianco, zaffiri, diamanti

Orecchini a orchidea in oro giallo, zaffiri, diamanti

Spilla ballerina con diamanti e rubini. Per realizzarla sono necessari due mesi di lavoro

Magnificent sales of Christie’s in New York

Published on December 10, 2021

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Collana con diamante fancy giallo vivido di 70,19 carati, purezza VS2

The Christmas air is good for super jewelry sales, especially if they are sold at auction. In New York, the sale of Christie’s Magnificent Jewels totaled nearly $ 55 million, with 91% sold in lots and 94% sold by value: 120% went above the lowest estimate. Offers came from 30 countries across five continents.

Under the lens there were colored diamonds of particular value. The most anticipated lot was a 70.19 carat fancy vivid yellow diamond pendant, VS2 clarity. It was sold for $ 2,850,000. A 5.38 carat vivid orange pink fancy diamond ring, VS2 clarity, which made 2,670,000 dollars and a 8.74 carat dark gray-blue fancy diamond ring, Internally Flawless, reached 2.61 million .

Anello con diamante fancy grigio-blu scuro di 8,74 carati, Internally Flawless

Also on sale was a series of pieces cataloged as A Superlative Eye: Property from a Distinguished Chicago Collection, which included Cartier Art Deco jewelry. The collection achieved outstanding results for an impressive Graff ruby and diamond ring, which fetched $ 1,290,000. An Art Deco brooch with emeralds, sapphires and diamonds, which belonged to Mrs. Cole Porter, fetched $ 381,250 and another Egyptian Art Deco revival brooch by Cartier with gems and diamonds, achieved more than three times its highest estimate : sold for $ 268,750.

Other highlights of the sale were eight lots of Van Cleef & Arpels Mystery-Set jewelry: a double-flower brooch with sapphires and diamonds was awarded for $ 575,000, a ruby and diamond bracelet reached 525,000, a pendant-earring with rubies and diamonds which he made 412,500.

In the same auction, other impressive prices were raised for a major 17.73-carat Kashmir sapphire ring, which reached more than double its high estimate: over $ 2 million, while a deep yellow diamond ring of 44, 12-karat made $ 1,110,000 and a Van Cleef & Arpels Art Deco diamond bracelet previously featured in The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, which reached $ 1,230,000.

Bracciale di diamanti Art Déco di Van Cleef & Arpels

Spilla di Cartier con smeraldo intagliato, diamanti, zaffiri

Bracciale con rubini e diamanti con tecnica mystery setting di Van Cleef & Arpels

Blue White Group’s online jewels with DavidJMilano

Published on November 26, 2021

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Anello a Spirale in oro rosa con diamanti e rubino

Blue White Group is a historic Italian company, based in Milan and founded by David Joshach in 1974: for 45 years it has been operating in the sector of importing diamonds and precious stones from the main world stock exchanges in Tel Aviv, Antwerp, New York and Mumbai. Alongside the stone trade, however, Blue White Group is also active in the jewelry sector. One of its flagship brands is Leaderline, which specializes in fashion mini jewelry. The jewels are small, light, with innovative, unusual, modern, design shapes. But the company has now launched DavidJMilano, a brand created for the digital jewelry store in gold, diamonds and precious stones. DavidJMilano is therefore de facto the new consumer brand of the group.

BlueWhiteGroup is a family-run company specializing in the trading of precious stones in the Italian market. In fact, the company is a member of the most influential International Diamond Exchanges and with partners in Antwerp and Tel Aviv. Modern, light jewels, made of 18-karat white or pink gold, with natural diamonds and even precious gems. But, above all, always with a design that never fails to surprise.

Anello doppio in oro rosa e diamanti neri

Anello in oro bianco e diamanti bianchi e neri

Orecchini Arabesque in oro rosa e diamanti

Orecchino a graffetta in oro bianco e diamanti bianchi

Surprising Scala Gioielli

Published on November 25, 2021

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Orecchini in oro 14 carati, diamanti, corniola, ametista, tormalina, agata, madreperla

The small masterpieces by Scala Gioielli, goldsmith’s virtuosity in Marcianise ♦ ︎

Italy is the country with an advanced economy that has the highest percentages of family businesses. This is also true in jewelery and is also why small exceptional handicrafts abound, while lacking (with few exceptions) large specimens such as the French Maisons. An example is Scala Gioielli, a company based in the Orafi Center in Marcianise, Caserta. Born in 1980 in Naples on the initiative of Eduardo Scala, is managed by the founder of the company, by his wife Caterina, and by her children Luca, Daniele and Alessandro. Almost 40 years have passed, but the company continues to hold the flag of quality craftsmanship high.

Bracciale di perle su oro bianco 18 carati, diamanti, rubini, smeraldi

As you can expect from a brand that works in the Naples area, Scala Gioielli excels in the art of coral processing. Bracelets, elaborate necklaces, pendants that are small sculptures are part of the catalog of the Maison. But not only: Scala Gioielli knows how to produce pieces of surprising goldsmith virtuosity. For example, the 18-carat white gold-plated brooch with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and rubies, with the central body of the bird-brooch made of a Brazilian aquamarine. Or in the Moro Venetian brooch, in yellow gold and 18k white gold, with ebony bust surrounded by brilliant cut diamonds, emeralds and colored sapphires. A small masterpiece.

Anello in oro giallo e bianco 14 carati e diamanti

Anello in oro giallo con zaffiri e pietre semi preziose

Anello in oro 18 carati con diamanti e acquamarina brasiliana

Anello in oro giallo 14 carati, diamanti e opale australiano

Spilla montata in oro bianco 18 kt, diamanti, smeraldi, zaffiri e rubini, il corpo centrale è costituito da una acquamarina brasiliana — Spilla montata in oro bianco 18 kt, diamanti, smeraldi, zaffiri e rubini, il corpo
centrale è costituito da una acquamarina brasiliana

Scala Gioielli, spilla Moro Veneziano montata in oro giallo e oro bianco 18 kt, busto in ebano contornato da diamanti taglio brillante, smeraldi e zaffiri colorati

Messika, néoporté jewels

Published on November 25, 2021

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The art of matching jewels. Valérie Messika, who launched the Parisian high jewelery Maison that bears her name, makes a proposal: to wear jewels from different collections together. A way to surprise and go against the tide. Necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings are usually worn as sets, Messika points out, but today the overlapping of different rings or bracelets and asymmetry are in fashion.

In line with the trend called néoporté, the French designer has developed several combinations that complement each other perfectly. The famous mix & match is found in all the looks created by Messika. For example, wearing a series of chain bracelets or bangles, earrings and ear clips, rings worn on several knuckles or fingers, chokers, chain necklaces and pendants all worn at the same time … In short, the perfect outfit for winter 2021 is reached with the ability to combine different things, and the same at the same time, in search of a new balance.

Anello Lucky Move con malachite e diamanti

Anello Lucky Move Uno in oro giallo e diamanti

Noa’s brilliant jewels

Published on November 23, 2021

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Orecchini Fleur de Lis in oro bianco e diamanti

The ultra classics, ultra precious, ultra bright jewelry by Frieda Kaplan Gross and her brand Noa ♦

Frieda Kaplan Gross: keep in mind this name if you go to London or Monaco of Bavaria, but also if you like the jewels which have a luxury so clean, icy polar, and shiny to make you shudder. No extravagance: the jewels of this designer, sold under the brand Noa, are a celebration of classic beauty. Meanwhile, it is also the result of the blood flowing in the veins of Frieda, jewelry designers of the third generation: her grandfather opened his first store in Venezuela in 1960, before returning to Europe to settle in Monaco. As you can see from the pictures on this page, the family tradition focuses in particular on diamonds, although there are large, exuberant, but at the same time sober, precious stones.

The career of Frieda Kaplan Gross began with a degree at the London College of Fashion, then completed a gemology course at the GIA in Israel, but she also spent some time working as Pr. Time wasted, we say: fortunately in 2009 she began designing jewelry and launched its brand Noa Fine Jewellery. What then it is based on the family workshop, where the processing of jewelry is a tradition. But Noa, however, is based in London, where the designer lives with her husband and daughter. Diamonds, diamonds and more diamonds appear with several cuts on her jewelry collections. That in addition to fine jewelery, also cover a few pieces of high jewelry. A sign that the class does not lack.

Orecchini Butterfly in oro bianco e diamanti

Anello Fleur de Lis in oro giallo e diamanti

Collana a ferro di cavallo in oro rosa, perle Akoya e diamanti

Choker con nastro di velluto e pendente di diamanti

The new balloons with diamonds by Vhernier

Published on November 18, 2021

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Orecchino Palloncino con pavé di diamanti neri

Although the smartphone has become the favorite game of children, the old balloon that floats in the air tied to a thread is still (fortunately) something that attracts those who have not yet learned the gestures on the screen of an iPhone or the like. This resilience is also testified by Vhernier, that has been offering Palloncino (balloon) as a collection for many years now. Unlike the aerostatic balloon, however, the jewels of the Balloon collection are appreciated by a more adult age

In any case, the design of the Maison’s jewels is particularly appreciated, so much so that periodically Vhernier proposes it always new variants. This year, for example, a diamond pavé version arrives. The new jewelry includes ring and earrings, both available in white or black diamond pavé on white gold. Furthermore, the Palloncino ring has an ergonomic shape that allows you to wear two rings on the same finger, in opposite directions. The earring, sold individually, can be combined with a model made with diamonds of the same color but is also suitable for creating the black and white couple.

Anello Palloncino con pavé di diamanti bianchi

Orecchino Palloncino con pavé di diamanti bianchi

Anello Palloncino con pavé di diamanti neri

Salvini’s latest signs

Published on November 16, 2021

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The latest Segni (signs) by Salvini. Because life is made up of actions, but first of all by signs. From the time the clock indicates when your sleep is interrupted in the morning, to every letter of the alphabet, and even what we listen to on the radio or watch on Instagram: a sign, in fact, is anything that communicates a meaning, but which is not the sign itself. The meaning can be intentional, like a spoken word with a specific meaning, but also unintentional, like a symptom, which is a sign of a particular medical condition. Signs can communicate through any sense, visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory. And, here we come to the point, they can also communicate feelings.

A jewel, in effect, “speaks” to others indicating the body of the wearer, but also a social status, or an emotional bond. The Segni collection by Salvini (brand of the Damiani group), is proposed again two years after its launch with new jewels that have the shape of symbols such as the star, the moon and the heart. The jewels are in yellow, pink and white gold with small diamonds set. Ready to turn into signs of affection.

Anello farfalla in oro bianco e diamanti

The meta-jewels by Regina Gambatesa

Published on November 15, 2021

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Why limit yourself to considering a jewel as something that is worn over the body, when it can also be something that conceals a meaning within it? If the philosophy can be applied to jewelry, ask Regina Gambatesa. From the depths of Mediterranean Italy (Bari), the designer embarked on a journey through a sort of meta-jewelry. Often, in fact, in Regina Gambatesa’s jewels there are hidden elements ready to refer to other forms, worlds or realities. Maybe a pinch of sand linked to her story, with the teenage years spent in the Middle East, between Turkey, Lebanon and Libya. But, apart from the aspects more related to the mind than to the eyes, the jewels of the Italian designer are above all to be looked at, touched and worn.

Anello Serpenti in oro, smeraldo, diamanti

Beauty as a value, a function of the forms and ornaments that concern the states of the soul.
Queen Gambatesa

Having said all this, the jewels can only be original. The Serpenti collection represents one of the strengths: but, unlike many other jewels inspired by the crawling reptile, the rings, earrings and bracelets of this collection have a way of their own to twist around the fingers and wrists. Regina Gambatesa’s jewels use gold and precious stones, from diamonds to rubies, or colored and semi-precious such as Madeira quartz in the Fior di Loto ring or kunzite. But it is the colored titanium that allows innovative shapes and unprecedented geometries, suited to the designer’s imagination.

Il retro dell'anello in oro e titanio — Il retro dell’anello in oro e titanio

Anello Mandala in oro, titanio e smeraldi

Orecchini in oro e diamanti bianchi e fancy

Anello Mandala in oro, titanio e diamante

The triangle of Olga Pekarevskaia

Published on November 9, 2021

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Orecchini della collezione ZIg Zag in oro bianco, diamanti, tormaline rosa

The shape of the triangle at the base of the collections of Maison Maya Gemstones by Olga Pekarevskaia ♦ ︎

Olga Pekarevskaia says that a couple of years ago she founded Maya Gemstones because she was fascinated by the geometric shape of the triangle. In fact, in every jewel of the Maison based in London, there is a stone cut into a triangle, with a patented 28-facet shape. But, in reality, the owner of Maya Gemstones has many more faces: she is, in fact, a successful entrepreneur, with activities ranging from online ak catering premium payments for those flying, to organizing events. This does not mean, he says, that his passion for jewels and gems is not genuine.

In addition to exclusively using triangular-cut diamonds, Olga Pekarevskaia offers decidedly innovative jewels, although the idea of secret rings from the Cosmic collection, that is they can opens, dates back to the Italian Renaissance period. Another collection that has won acclaim is Out of Office, with gold earrings with diamonds or precious stones that recall the shape of a paper clip. By the way: the Maya name is that of his eldest daughter.

Anello in oro bianco con diamante da 1 carato taglio triangolare

Anello ZIgZag in oro bianco con diamanti e tanzanite

Orecchini in oro bianco, diamanti e ametiste rosa

Anello in oro giallo e bianco, con pavé di diamanti

Collezione Cosmic, pendente a forma di razzo in oro bianco e diamanti

Pendente Saturn con perla di Tahiti e zaffiro

Orecchino della collezione Out of Office in oro giallo e rubini

Orecchino della collezione Out of Office in oro bianco e zaffiri

New petals for Margherita Damiani

Published on November 8, 2021

Rings/bracciale/Showroom/COLLANE

Orologio con segreto in oro rosa, diamanti, gemme di colore

Flowers bloom every year. But there is a particular flower, the daisy, which blooms more than others. At least as regards Damiani’s Margherita collection. Launched in 2017, the collection made of white or pink gold, with diamonds that enrich the petals of the small daisy-shaped flowers, is getting wider and wider. Not only that, it seems to widen up to touch high jewelery, with pieces made with large pearls, or with a watch with a secret, that is, a mechanism that can conceal the dial, in gold and colored gems. More refined and expensive pieces, not by chance exhibited together on the occasion of the High Jewelery presentations of the Maison of Valenza.

Anello Margherita in oro rosa e diamanti

Alongside these top pieces, the collection now counts on rings that show off up to nine daisies around the circular band, and pendants with five points of light of different sizes and a bracelet featuring 27 flowers.
In short, the Margherita collection has become one of the most successful continuatives of the Italian brand. And, after all, it is part of tradition: the daisy-shaped jewel, in fact, was created for the first time by Enrico Grassi Damiani, in the 1930s, in honor of Queen Margherita of Savoy, wife of Umberto I.

Anello in oro bianco e diamanti con nove margherite

Collane in oro bianco e rosa con diamanti

Anello in oro bianco, diamanti, perle Akoya

Freedom and jewels by Victor Velyan

Published on November 6, 2021

Rings/Showroom

Anello in oro 18 carati con tormalina Paraiba, diamanti e perle

If you meet him on one of California’s wide roads, riding his powerful Easy Rider-style motorcycle, you would never say Victor Velyan is a renowned jeweler and fine jewelry designer. But the appearance is deceiving. It is true, however, that the designer has an unconventional life behind him by jewelry standards. As a boy he played in a rock band, then spent 12 years in Africa as a safari guide. But in 1984 he returned to his homeland and started working as a diamond setter and then an apprentice jeweler. Having learned the techniques necessary to attempt a new adventure, he opened his own company, but with the idea of producing on behalf of third parties. Also because, as he says, it must be frustrating to have won over 27 awards, but under the name of other designers.

Until he decided, as often happens, to put his experience with one of his Maison to good use. Victor Velyan’s jewels, however, also hide past lives in the design. Large stones, sometimes juxtaposed in clusters, with often fancy or cabochon cuts, diamonds, paraiba tourmaline, emeralds, opals and lots of gold. Jewels that combine luxury with a musical rhythm, with the vivid colors of Africa, with the freedom of motorcycle travel.

Orecchini in oro 18 carati con smeraldi colombiani e diamanti

Collana in oro con opale, diamanti, tormalina Paraiba

Bracciale in oro con acquamarina e diamanti

Pendente in oro con opale nero e diamanti

A cushion called Kotlar

Published on November 6, 2021

Rings/Diamanti/Showroom

Anello in platino con diamante giallo taglio cuscino

Round, brilliant cut, or marquise, baguette, emerald, briolette … The shapes that a diamond can take are many, even if the most used are four or five. But every now and then a new cut is added, invented by some diamond specialist. One of the most well-known cuts that has been added more recently is, for example, the Asscher cut. But it is not the only one. In the United States, another diamond and jewelry specialist such as Harry Kotlar also introduced a new type of facet a few years ago (in 2003).

This is the Kotlar Cushion, characterized by an exclusive 61-sided cushion cut. The color of the stone used for this processing varies from D to K. The clarity ranges from 1F to S12, the size from 0.70 up to 20 carats. Each Kotlar Cushion bears a laser engraving from the laboratory with its certificate number and logo. The Kotlar Cushion has 61 facets: it is modeled with a specific formula of pavilion and crown angles, with percentages and ratios designed to maximize brilliance and sparkle. It is used for stones from 0.70 to 20 carats.

anello platino diamante — Anello in platino con diamante taglio cuscino

A long story that of Harry Kotlar: escaped from racial persecution, he immigrated to the United States from Germany at the end of the war. He specialized in the diamond trade until he founded the jewelry brand that bears his name. He passed away in 1998 and the company is now run by his nephew David Wiener. But diamonds always remain at the center of the business.

Anello in platino con diamante Kotlar Cushion

Orecchini in oro rosa con diamanti taglio brillante

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