Nadia Morgenthaler

The elegance of Nadia Morgenthaler

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She worked for Chopard, taught at the Ecole d ’Art Appliquée in Geneva, directed the Arts Fusion high jewelery atelier but, above all, Nadia Morgenthaler has conquered a special place in the world of jewelry with her Maison. The fresh air of Lake Geneva inspired the designer the pleasure of embroidering metal and, instead of dewdrops, small pearls appeared on Nadia Morgenthaler’s jewels, like precious drops dotting rings, earrings and pendants. Now her jewels have also landed on the Net-à-porter marketplace, with seven pieces that summarize the creative path of the Swiss designer.

Anello in oro rosso 18 carati e argento sterling brunito, con spinello blu-viola
Anello in oro rosso 18 carati e argento sterling brunito, con spinello blu-viola

Her style is not imitable: Nadia Morgenthaler arrived there in 2013, after spending 25 years in the Geneva jewelery workshops. Her collections are a synthesis between a somewhat Victorian style and a little luxury of the maharajas. But they never cross over into overly flashy jewelry. They are, however, carefully crafted and, above all, have that aesthetic lightness that makes them refined and immediately desirable.
Spilla in oro rosso 18 carati, argento annerito, spinelli rosa e diamanti
Spilla in oro rosso 18 carati, argento annerito, spinelli rosa e diamanti

Nadia Morgenthaler, orecchini in oro rosso 18 carati, argento annerito, spinelli rosa e diamanti
Nadia Morgenthaler, orecchini in oro rosso 18 carati, argento annerito, spinelli rosa e diamanti
Orecchini in oro rosso 18 carati, argento annerito, spinelli rosa e diamanti
Orecchini in oro rosso 18 carati, argento annerito, spinelli rosa e diamanti
Orecchini a clip in oro bianco rodiato 18 carati, perle, diamanti
Orecchini a clip in oro bianco rodiato 18 carati, perle, diamanti
Bracciale in oro bianco annerito 18 carati, perle, diamanti
Bracciale in oro bianco annerito 18 carati, perle, diamanti

Anello in oro rosso e bianco 18 carati e argento sterling brunito, con spinello rosa
Anello in oro rosso e bianco 18 carati e argento sterling brunito, con spinello rosa







Nadia Morgenthaler, standing ovation earrings





The new earrings by Nadia Morgenthaler, a hymn to the goldsmith ability and creativity ♦ ︎

Nadia Morgenthaler is one of the most popular designers. And rightly so. She has succeeded in building her world in the world of jewelry. An eco-environment that provides, as she describes herself, a colorful universe and an atmosphere at the same time 1900, maharajah, noble and real. We add: there is also a pinch of the Victorian era. This mix of tomorrow and yesterday, of the future and the past, is mixed in the ability to build jewels that offer the feeling of being disconnected from fashions and momentary passions. From Geneva, where she lives and works, Nadia Morgenthaler has built a bridge that connects her with the great world stage of fine jewelry. Also because her creations always run on the thread stretched between aesthetics and engineering ability.

Nadia Morgenthaler, orecchini con perle e diamanti
Nadia Morgenthaler, orecchini con perle e diamanti

At GemGèneve, for example, Nadia Morgenthaler presented, among other things, a pair of standing ovation earrings, with 170 diamonds, two small square diamonds of 5.14 carats and two large 11.63 carat diamonds, 46 natural pearls set in gold and silver. Another piece that will earn other admirers.





Orecchini con zaffiri, perle naturali, quarzo
Orecchini con zaffiri, perle naturali, quarzo

Nadia Morgenthaler, orecchini con perle, pietra luna
Nadia Morgenthaler, orecchini con perle, pietra luna
Orecchini con titanite verde, perle, diamanti
Orecchini con titanite verde, perle, diamanti
Orecchini con diamanti, perle naturali, tormalina e pietra luna
Orecchini con diamanti, perle naturali, tormalina e pietra luna
Pendente con perle naturali, diamanti
Pendente con perle naturali, diamanti
Orecchini con perle naturali, diamanti, tormaline
Orecchini con perle naturali, diamanti, tormaline
Orecchini con perle, diamanti, spinelli
Orecchini con perle, diamanti, spinelli

Orecchini con perle naturali, diamanti, platino
Orecchini con perle naturali, diamanti, platino







GenGèneve’s second chance





GemGèneve includes gems, designers, vintage jewelery, diamonds and … The second edition starts ♦ ︎

Started in 2018 as an adventure on which not many were ready to bet, GemGèneve returns (9-12 May) with more exhibitors and with a series of collateral events that certify its vitality.
For example, Elizabeth Fischer together with Vivienne Becker will address the issue of the relationship between jewelery design and contemporary society. Another meeting is dedicated to Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, explorer, adventurer, merchant and narrator of his wanderings, who helped develop the knowledge of elsewhere in Europe and the taste for precious stones. In short, an articulated and fully organized fair.

GemGenève, insieme di booths
GemGenève, insieme di booths

And so, the idea of ​​two jewelers, Thomas Faerber and Ronny Totah, tired of the Basel formula, could have had an uncertain destiny. Instead it seems a success. The second edition of GemGenève sees the presence of around 200 exhibitors, with a large presence of those who buy and sell precious gems, diamonds, and even vintage jewelry. But not only.
Interesting, for example, the two sections dedicated to emerging designers, with Ena Iro, Horowicz Fine Jewelery, Pierre d’Alexis and Syz Firework, and the Design Vivarium area, with the presence of Alexandra Jefford, Cora Sheibani, Milio, Ming, Mr. Lieou, Nadia Morgenthaler, Ninotchka, Racine Geneva, Sean Gilson, Tatiana Verstraeten, Tenzo. Monica Battistoni





Vetrina a GemGenève
Vetrina a GemGenève

Acquamarina da 130 carati e morganite di Nomads
Acquamarina da 130 carati e morganite di Nomads

GemGenève, vetrina di Dover Jewelry & Diamonds
GemGenève, vetrina di Dover Jewelry & Diamonds

GemGenève, visitatori
GemGenève, visitatori

GemGenève 2018
GemGenève 2018

La vetrina di Robert Procop con i gioielli disegnati da Angelina Jolie
La vetrina di Robert Procop con i gioielli disegnati da Angelina Jolie







11 designers for GemGenève

The 11 independent jewelers who will participate in the Designer Vivarium, at GemGenève ♦ ︎

It is called Designer Vivarium: a name that recalls a space dedicated to a species cataloged by the natural sciences, but which is instead an area of GemGenève for independent jewelers. And so, yes, the independent designers are a strange species, even if unknown to the heirs of Darwin. The fair, in its second edition, will be held from 9 to 12 May at the Geneva Palaexpo. And, like last year, it will reserve an area for small innovative brands: a space that has been at the center of visitors’ interest. The Designer Vivarium was curated by the jewelery expert Vivienne Becker, and has been expanded to include more designers. Here are the 11 brands that will exhibit their jewelry at GemGenève 20198.

Nicholas Lieou
Born and raised in Hong Kong, he studied in Europe, taking a masters degree in London at the prestigious Royal College of Art, before working for major jewelers in London and New York. He is a cerebral and passionate designer, who mixes a scholarly approach with art and imagination to revitalize the classicism of high jewelery. For example, in jewelry inspired by the myth of Daedalus, with diamonds in the shape of stylized wings.

Nicholas Lieou
Nicholas Lieou

Alexandra Jefford
Designer born in Geneva, based in London, which draws on his artistic training to create jewelry deeply considered modernists of powerful line and bold form, color and consistency, often incorporating the engraving of the illustrator that was his specialty. Contrasts darkness and light.
 Alexandra-Jefford
Alexandra Jefford

Ming Lampson
Known simply as Ming, he is a private “secret” London jeweler who was born in Hong Kong and learned about the gems in Jaipur. He launched his company in 1998, mainly to focus on custom jewelry. In the last two years, he has created his first two themed collections, blending his Asian roots with refined western craftsmanship.
Ming Lampson
Ming Lampson

Milio
This is a mother and daughter duo from Moscow: Lyudmila and Olga maintain the Russian culture through the use of refined gems and stone carvings, balancing at a certain nostalgic romanticism with a timeless modernism inspired by the Art Deco.
Tatiana Verstraeten
She is a designer of accessories and costume jewelery of Belgian origin, which emerges from behind the scenes of the Parisian fashion elite. Tatiana launched its first high jewelery collection during the last Paris Couture in January.

Tatiana Verstraeten
Tatiana Verstraeten

Nadia Morgenthaler
Designer and jeweler based in Geneva, she was already present last year. She has an unmistakable style, which blends architectural details with an almost Victorian romanticism.
Alexander Tenzo
Extraordinary Russian gemologist, restorer, engraver, stone sculptor, creates cameos, carvings and complex carvings, with jewels and slowly revealing their fascinating secrets.
Alexander Tenzo
Alexander Tenzo

Sean Gilson
American goldsmith artist who makes every jewel by hand with pearls and gold, in a modernist geometric and graphic look.
Ninotchka
Duo of young and dynamic Russian designers, who deepens the tradition with precious stones, often ancient and coming from the Urals, to create fantastic ornaments with rich cultural references.
Cora Sheibani
Designer born in Switzerland and based in London, she grew up in the art world. He uses his innate sense of line, form and color to break the jewel rules and explore completely new spaces.

Cora Sheibani
Cora Sheibani

Racine Osieri
Husband and wife, the emerging talent of the GemGenève section of last year, enters the Designer Vivarium with pavé, a blend of harmonies or surprising contrasts.




GemGenève 2018
GemGenève 2018

La vetrina di Robert Procop con i gioielli disegnati da Angelina Jolie
La vetrina di Robert Procop con i gioielli disegnati da Angelina Jolie
Gioielli d'epoca
Gioielli d’epoca

Il PalaExpo che ospita GenGenève
Il PalaExpo che ospita GenGenève







Jewels for collectors at the Pad London





Pad London is home to collectible jewelry and exceptional designers. Here is who exposes ♦ ︎

On the Thames there is a design festival with the 12th edition of Pad London (1-7 October 2018). And where there is design there is also jewelry. While most of the exhibition space is dedicated to the proposals of 68 important galleries including art, design, decorative arts, tribal art and antiques, a significant part of the Pad is dedicated to jewelery, collectors’ items. Here are the jewelery brands: Walid Akkad (France), Lorenz Bäumer (France), Karry Berreby (France), G. (United Kingdom), Hemmerle (Germany), Ma Tei (France), Object D’Émotion – Valery Demure (United Kingdom), Siegelson (USA), Suzanne Syz (Switzerland).

Collectible jewelry, wearable art and vintage jewelry and contemporary crafts, is gaining huge success at international fairs.

Una passata edizione di Pad London
Una passata edizione di Pad London

For this edition the fair has therefore expanded its offer with four new specialized galleries. The French designer Lorenz Bäumer, former artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s high jewelery and creator of collections for Chanel, exhibits architectural pieces that reveal his training as an engineer and his passion for poetry, nature and color. The Lebanese designer Walid Akkad offers minimal jewelry, reflecting his quest for timeless beauty and impeccable work. Glenn Spiro, English master jeweler and former Christie’s expert, brings his spectacular designs inspired by nature and demonstrates his innovative work with titanium. Objet d’Émotion – Valéry Demure, on the other hand, brings together a selection of vintage gems and contemporary creations of emerging talents such as Melanie Georgacopoulos, Francesca Villa, Polly Galles and Nadia Morgenthaler.

There is also Siegelson’s antique jewelry, blue-chip jewelry as an outstanding 1951 Suzanne Belperron suite on sale for the first time ever and an iconic Art Moderne bracelet by Jean Després since 1931.

Finally, Hemmerle, Ma Tei and Suzanne Syz present their coveted contemporary creations while Karry Berreby exhibits vintage and contemporary collectibles. Federico Graglia





Orecchini di Hemmerle
Orecchini di Hemmerle

Bracciale di Hemmerle
Bracciale di Hemmerle
Lorenz Bäumer, collezione Astrolabe
Lorenz Bäumer, collezione Astrolabe
Lorenz Bäumer, collezione Inséparable
Lorenz Bäumer, collezione Inséparable

Lorenz Bäumer, collezione Lumiére Blanche
Lorenz Bäumer, collezione Lumiére Blanche







The empire of Nadia Morgenthaler

The (British) empire still strikes with the Maharaja-Belle Époque style of Nadia Morgenthaler, one of the new high-jewelery brands ♦ ︎
Can a pretty Swiss designer, who works in Geneva, live in a different universe than the clean and a little conventional Swiss society? Yes, it can, and there is no need to be rebels to propose something different. You can if your name is Nadia Morgenthaler and from five years you have inaugurated a new path in the world of high jewelry. We could call it Maharaja-Époque style, that of India part of the British Empire. Because the designer’s jewels have their own independent life that passes between the architectures that are not at all minimal, that went out of fashion between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but also that sort of Indian baroque that traced an era in jewelry. Small pearls that draw a rounded line, spinels, rock crystal, tourmaline, small diamonds. Stones with not excessively saturated nuances, which are often hooked as pendants. The entire construction of the jewels, even the smallest ones, is never simple, yet maintains the balance of the volumes.

Orecchini con tormaline , diamanti, perle
Orecchini con tormaline , diamanti, perle

Just look at the type of jewelry of Nadia Morgenthaler to realize that they are unique pieces, which next to the fantasy linked to other eras are made with modern Swiss precision. No have been exception by the jewels shown at GemGenève, where the Maison has placed itself in a special area for young emerging designers. Although Nadia Morgenthaler has emerged for some time, and not just since 2013.

Pendente con cristallo di rocca, perle naturali, diamanti
Pendente con cristallo di rocca, perle naturali, diamanti
Nadia Morgenthaler, particolare di una collana con spinelli, perle naturali, diamanti
Nadia Morgenthaler, particolare di una collana con spinelli, perle naturali, diamanti
Anello con spinello, perle, diamanti
Anello con spinello, perle, diamanti

Collectible Jewels in GemGenève





In Geneva, a new appointment with collectible jewelery and selected gems: GemGenève ♦ ︎
So far, the highlights of high-end jewelry have been few: Baselworld, first of all, a unique story, now resized. Then, in different ways and situations, VicenzaOro, Jck and Couture in Las Vegas, to which was added the Hong Kong Fair and, finally, Dubai. Beyond these events there was also the Sihh, Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie Genève, centered however above all on the market of high-end timepieces. Now the world of jewelery and gem fairs has one more rival: GemGenève. The event is promoted by jewelers and merchants from Geneva, with over 70 years of experience: Thomas Faerber, owner of the fourth generation of the Faerber Collection, and Ronny Totah, co-owner of Horovitz and Totah. The initiative also marks a marked split-up from Baselworld, considered unattractive for antique or collectible jewelery.

Pendente di Nadia Morgenthaler
Pendente di Nadia Morgenthaler

The appointment
The city that is the capital of watchmaking is also home to refined merchants of gems and vintage jewelry. Switzerland itself seems to symbolize this mix of discretion and luxury, of elegance, but also of business. GemGenève is considered by the organizers a new kind of fair, “a new approach aimed at revealing the true spirit of the jewelry world, showing off its experience and excellence”. GemGenève will be an intimate, elegant, contemporary and user-friendly show with a hundred high-level exhibitors. The fair will be held from 10 to 13 May at the Geneva Palaexpo. An opportunity for those who love precious stones, diamonds and pearls, antique jewelry, but also contemporary design jewels.
Beware of the date: it is no coincidence that the days coincide with the main auctions of jewelry and watches in Geneva, which attract the best buyers in the world, those of the Magnificent Jewels of Christie’s and Sotheby’s. And, not by chance, Christie’s has looked kindly at the initiative, with a non-secondary participation and a stand. Some names among the hundred participants: Nadia Morgenthaler, Fabio Salini, Kothari, David & Sohn, Gorgoglione. Monica Battistoni




Croce con diamanti e zaffiri di Gorgoglione
Croce con diamanti e zaffiri di Gorgoglione
Collana in oro e diamanti firmata René Boivin
Collana in oro e diamanti firmata René Boivin
Orecchini in oro di Phillips
Orecchini in oro di Phillips
Pendente con perla e diamanti di Gorgoglione
Pendente con perla e diamanti di Gorgoglione

Anello con grande diamante fancy intense yellow
Anello con grande diamante fancy intense yellow

Nadia Morgenthaler, anello com spinello, perla e diamanti
Nadia Morgenthaler, anello com spinello, perla e diamanti

Orecchini a forma di anemoni
Orecchini a forma di anemoni






Nadia Morgenthaler in the Big Apple

Nadia Morgenthaler (see also this article) is only active from three years, yet it has already become an international reference point. The high jewelery, on the other hand, does not loves borders. The designer based in Geneva, that before debuting with her brand has long worked for other Maison, has landed in New York for a week and presented to newyorkers her jewelry (with only visits by appointment), which are a subtle game of balance between nostalgia for vintage and new combinations of classical elements, such as large and small pearls. Her jewelry also resemble those of decorative elements of architecture that can be found in the details of pediments, pinnacles, in friezes. Or they may seem small chandeliers in miniature, but with the grace of jewelry that looks more to the nineteenth century, that the digital age. For the occasion, the designer has also brought with her some new piece, made for the visit to the Big Apple. Giulia Netrese

Nadia Morgenthaler’s slow jewels

If you pass in Geneva, let’s check out the creations of Nadia Morgenthaler. Not knowing her work is a shame. He created his eponymous brand in 2013 with the idea to create a jewel done well it takes the right time. After slow food, in short, here is the slow jewel. Other characteristic data: dont care about fashions and pursue the path of jewelry with the style of another era: her jewel is rich, elaborate, with a taste from the late nineteenth century but without those approximations workmanship found in certain jewels of the past. It must be said that the designer is facilitated in his work because he has accumulated experience rather thick. He attended the School of Applied Arts in Geneva. But then he worked for 25 years at the plant and in the design of jewelry for Philips Bonet, Chopard and the Atelier Arts Fusion. He learned in the field what it means to design and make jewelry of great value, both from the artistic point of view and from that market. Now it is at ease with pearls, spinels, moonstones, tourmalines, and blackened gold or pink, his favorite materials. Take a look at his creations in these images. Lavinia Andorno

Orecchini pendenti, oro annerito, diamanti e perle naturali
Orecchini pendenti, oro annerito, diamanti e perle naturali
Anello con spinello, perla naturale, diamanti, oro annerito
Anello con spinello, perla naturale, diamanti, oro annerito
Orecchini pendenti con spinelli, perle naturali, tormaline, diamanti
Orecchini pendenti con spinelli, perle naturali, tormaline, diamanti
Anello con perle naturali, diamanti, oro rosa e oro annerito
Anello con perle naturali, diamanti, oro rosa e oro annerito
Anello in oro annerito, diamanti e perle naturali
Anello in oro annerito, diamanti e perle naturali