The American luxury jewelry brand Nigaam Jewels is launching a new collection, which will be available after the events in Las Vegas with Luxury/Jck. Nigaam started in 1970 in India on the initiative of Narendra Kumar Nigam, who founded a small company for cutting stones. In 1996 he opened an office in New York and presented the brand. The Nigam brothers have continued the tradition of gem jewelry, including the new collection which bears the name of Serpens.
The line includes jewels which, as the name indicates, are inspired by snake motifs. For the Serpens collection, the designers of the American Maison have chosen a pioneering technique using colored rhodium, an element of the platinum group, which is used in jewelry to add shine and brilliance to the metals of the jewelry. The addition of rhodium color makes the Serpens collection unique. In addition to colored rhodium, the jewels are made in 18-karat white and yellow gold, together with diamonds and natural precious stones. Pieces in the collection are available starting at $1,600.
India in New York by Nigaam
In 1970, Narendra Kumar Nigam founded a small company for cutting stones, in India. In 1990 the company was already a major player in the processing of gems. Six years later he opened an office in New York and at the beginning of the new century has created a division for jewelry. Why limit yourself to cut stones when you can also dial in fine jewelry? Together with Oriental Gemco these Indians transplanted in large American cities have created Nigaam brand, which is now one of the luxury jewelers in America.
But there are not only in the US but also in Europe, especially in Britain, Italy and Spain, and also throughout Asia. La Maison is targeted, they explain in New York, to the women category Affluent, sophisticated, who appreciate design combined with skilled craftsmanship in the creation of jewelry. It can also be deduced by simply looking at the kind of collections that proposes the company. That, in some product line has not forgotten the oriental taste, perhaps because it also caters to Asian markets, while in other jewelry has definitely embraced the simplest forms like the West. Alessia Mongrando
Gemco and his brothers
The great race of the Gemco Designs, with the triumph of the stones between East and West. Here are the news presented at VicenzaOro with the Nigaam brand: The Stella Collection and Cascade Collection, with briolette cut diamonds ♦
From Jaipur, the capital of the Indian jewelry, up to Hong Kong and New York. No wonder the Gemco Designs jewelry is a nice hybrid of the two cultures, East and West. Founded in 1970 by brothers Gaurav, Pravesh and Prateek Nigam as an active company in the gemstone trade, Gemco has thus gained a solid reputation. In 2012 it took place the consecration, with the launch of the luxury brand Nigaam, neglecting the least profitable market for silver jewelry (but they are still in the catalog). They are, of course, jewelry that shine a large quantity of precious stones, often cut in the traditional Indian way, a bit ‘less precise and multifaceted than you see in Antwerp. But the effect is there. In high-end jewelry you can read the ancient Indian tradition, but also that of Byzantine icons, Islamic carpets and even of handicraft Chinese. Their jewelery are now in sixty stores in the East, especially in China, and the United States, but is coming also a platform for online sales. Cosimo Muzzano