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Chanel high jewelry inspired by Russia

Published on July 3, 2019

Bracciale della linea ispirata al folklore russo

Chanel’s new fine jewelry collection: Le Paris Russe de Chanel ♦ ︎

In 1924 Coco Chanel launched the eau de parfum Cuir de Russie. It is not a random name. The heady leather scent was what the French fashion queen linked to her relationship with Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich, cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, who had been exiled following the assassination of Rasputin. Short, but intense, as they say. In any case, the special relationship between France and Russia, and between Chanel and Russian culture did not stop. Coco Chanel herself, for example, was never in Russia, yet she had artist friends like composer Igor Stravinsky and Sergiei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, among her friends.

Anello con spiga di grano, oro giallo e bianco, diamanti

According to the biographers of the designer, Coco Chanel was so fascinated by the great country of the East to even hire Russian nobles, who fled to Paris after the October Revolution: a prince of St. Petersburg was the private secretary, while Dimitri’s sister, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna was persuaded to open an embroidery workshop, Kitmir, which worked exclusively for the Maison Chanel.

Spilla stile onorificenza militare in oro giallo e bianco, tormaline, spinelli rosa, granati mandarino, diamanti

The Tsar’s double-headed eagle is now back in the new collection of haute joaillerie named Le Paris Russe de Chanel: 69 pieces divided into two lines. The first celebrates the aristocracy, the palaces of St. Petersburg and Moscow, the military orders. The other line, instead, is inspired by Russian folklore, with the typical strong color embroidery. But there are also the ears of wheat which are an allusion to the boundless plains of Russia, but which are also the symbol of the Maison, together with the camellias, another flower that appears in the collection. Giulia Netrese

Orecchini della linea ispirata al folklore russo

Anello Roubachka in oro giallo, con diamanti bianchi e fancy yellow

Bozzetto di collana della collezione Le Paris Russe de Chanel

Collana-copricapo Sarafane in oro bianco, perle, diamanti

Bracciale Roubachka in oro bianco e diamanti

Bracciale Aigle Cambon in oro giallo, quarzo e diamanti

Anello Sarafane, oro bianco, diamanti bianchi e fancy

Ninotchka’s discreet charm

Published on June 14, 2019

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Anello di nefrite e ametista. Photo: Charles Thompson

The mysterious, exclusive, surprising jewels of the Maison Ninotchka. From Russia with love ♦ ︎

They are rather mysterious. The founders of the Maison Ninotchka work in Moscow for an audience of passionate collectors. Yevgeny Glagolev and Timur Ibragimov, founders and designers, work for those who do not want a simple jewel, but a small work of art. Unique pieces are able to excite and also to intrigue. Unlike other colleagues in jewelry, they avoid advertising, clamor and pomp. Yet the jewels they make are precious and surprising.

There is little information about them: both love historical jewels, so much so that they have used some pieces of the past to make them up to date in a modern way. They also love enhancing the gems found in the mines of great Russia, such as the Siberian amethysts, the Ural demantoids, the Popigai’s mine diamonds in eastern Siberia, where the largest diamond field on Earth is located: a huge large hole 100 kilometers, created by an asteroid precipitated 35 million years ago. But this is irrelevant to their refined work, which should be appreciated for the next 35 million years.

By the way: the name Ninotchka was chosen in honor of the 1939 film by director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo.

Suite per Maria Antonietta: la collana con rubini simboleggia le gocce di sangue per la decapitazione. A destra, gli orecchini a forma di ghigliottina

Orecchini a forma di edera con smeraldi colombiani, diamante fancy yellow e diamanti

Lumache by Ninotchka. Photo: Charles Thompson

Spilla per bracciale di zaffiri e diamanti. Photo: Charles Thompson

Yevgeny Glagolev e Timur Ibragimov. Photo: Charles Thompson

The Russian rhapsody by Liza Belotserkovskaya

Published on March 19, 2019

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Anello in oro annerito, diamanti e tormalina

The fantasy of the far north in the collections of Liza Belotserkovskaya Jewelery, from Moscow to New York ♦

What happens in the jewelry box of Russia and neighbourhood? The former empire of the czars and the former Soviet Union is a huge continent with many human and material resources. In addition, Russia has a high tradition in the field of jewelry. For example, the art of creating jewelry is represented by Liza Belotserkovskaya Jewellery. The brand, founded in 2010, has offices in Moscow and Vilnius (Lithuania), and shops in the countries of the former USSR, beginning with Moscow, but also in New York.

The activity is twofold: Liza Belotserkovskaya Jewellery presents its collection, but can also work on order of a customer. The jewelry can be made in silver, white gold or black gold with various stones (emerald, garnet, diamond, sapphire, aquamarine, moonstone, opal). The first collection, called Mystery forest, was presented in 2013. The brand is inspired by the charm of the Great North, between Gothic and mystery. The large rings with aquamarines are inspirated at deep lakes, the encrusted with sapphires pendants are a tribute to the stars, the earrings to the mysteries of the elves, the runes to the ancient Celts, and so on. It would certainly also appreciated by Snow White. About fables: Liza Belotserkovskaya is the name of the daughter of the founder of the brand, Marina Belotserkovskaya: she is a source of inspiration, even for the fantasy style, for the designer.

Orecchini in oro annerito con topazi London, tormaline e diamanti

Anello Transformer in oro annerito con tormalina e diamanti

Anello in oro annerito con granato e diamanti

Orecchini chanderlier in oro brunito e granati

Orecchini pendenti in oro brunito e granati

Orecchini pendenti in oro brunito e smeraldi

Fabergé in exhibition

Published on December 12, 2018

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Fabergé style in a large exhibition near Moscow. Here are the preview images ♦ ︎

There are excellent jewelers. There are also great jewelers. A step above there are the jewelers who made history. And then there is Fabergé. Mythical, almost mysterious, with a contested legacy that has come to this day. The museum and exhibition center La Nuova Gerusalemme of Istra (near Moscow) dedicates a great exhibition to this tutelary jeweler: The Fabergé style. Timeless excellence.

The exhibition will present over 400 pieces, many of which have never been exposed to the public.

To the lucky ones who can visit the exhibition are proposed the works of the Fabergé jewelry house from the collections of Russian and foreign museums: the Fabergé Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany), the State Hermitage Museum (Russia, St. Petersburg) and others.

The exhibition not only includes individual objects, but also tells the story of the development of the Casa Di Fabergé, with rare documents that mark the important phases in the history of the brand.

says the exhibition’s curator, professor, founder of the first private museum in Russia (The National Museum of Russia) and the Fabergé Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany), Alexander Ivanov. There are also crystal utensils, gifts and furnishing products. Furthermore, a comparison of the work of master goldsmiths from various branches of the company in Saint Petersburg and Moscow is presented. And there are the famous imperial easter eggs, the objects from the study of His Imperial Majesty, the accessories of the members of the imperial family.

Spilla con zaffiro di Peter Carl Fabergé

Among the main exhibits there is the imperial Easter egg of Karelian birch (1917), the last Easter egg, produced and given to the imperial family by the Fabergé company; the Easter imperial egg “The constellation of zarevic Aleksej” (1917), intended as a gift to the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna for Easter 1917; the “Farfalla” brooch (1896), donated by Emperor Nicholas II to the actress M. N. Ermolova.
Fabergé style. Timeless excellence
December 15, 2018 – March 24, 2019
“La Nuova Gerusalemme” Museum and Exhibition Center,
Istra (60 km from Moscow), Russia

Uovo di Pasqua del 1904, parte superiore

Imperial Easter Egg, Tsesarevich Constellation

Tenzo, the precious soul of Russia

Published on November 29, 2017

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Anello con smeraldo intagliato e diamanti

The extraordinary, and rare, jewels by the Russian Maison Tenzo ♦ ︎
Alexander Tenzo is anusual figure in the world of jewelery. He is Russian, he opened his Maison in St. Petersburg in 1996 when he was not yet 30 years old, and specialized in the trading of precious stones and gems: a passion that was born during the visit of ruby mines in Sri Lanka. He loves very much the colors of stones like spinelli, crisoberillo, green garnets, rubellite, alexandrite. His Russian soul leads him to create theatrical jewelery, with strong contrasts, sculptors. Like other great jewelers, Tenzo makes a few pieces and conceives them from the quality and, above all, the character of the stones. This adds fantasy to the design of form, tradition, passion, craft skill that encompasses the very popular enamel technique in Russia, or micro pavé. One of his points of reference is the Russian jeweler, Carl Fabergé. Gold is often twisted, embroidered, sometimes transformed with unparalleled nuances, often to infuse vintage air. In addition to boutique in 7 Rentgena Street in St. Petersburg, his jewels can be found (with some luck) in Switzerland, Heimperg, New York and London. Alessia Mongrando

Anello con rubellite di 12 carati della Nigeria

Particolare di una spilla con pietra luna intagliata

Anello con occhi di gatto e alessandrite

Anello con diamante rosa e diamanti bianchi, oro ossidato per donare un aspetto vintage

(Italiano) Ilgiz Fazulzyanov a Parigi

Published on November 3, 2017

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Anello Flamingo, oro, diamanti, smalto e opale di fuoco

The jeweler-artist Ilgiz Fazulzyanov opens a boutique in the center of Paris ♦ ︎
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the bond between the people of the great country joining the West and the East, and Paris, became closer. Between the French capital and the elites of St. Petersburg and Moscow there was a secular liaison, which consolidated over time. Now the tuning also reaches the high jewelery. Ilgiz Fazulzyanov, a Russian artist, designer and jeweler, has opened a boutique in Paris, not far from Faubourg Saint-Honoré. On the other hand, Paris is the capital of the high jewelery and Ilgiz Fazulzyanov is the best-known maker of unique pieces, where it uses enamel beside big stones. Fazulzyanov’s jewels are also entangled with the Russian spirit, an ancient tradition that continues to live through the fancy of the jeweler.
After graduating from the Kazan University, Fazulzyanov was specialized in filigree technique, that has a tradition in Tatarstan. The style is almost Art Nouveau, with large flowers, animals, colors and soft shapes. The Kremlin has acquired six of its jewelery-masterpieces for its permanent collection. If you want to buy your jewels, however, you have to be ready for effort, at least if your finances are not particularly well-supplied. Jewelry prices start from 10,000 euros. Rudy Serra

Anello con libellule in oro, diamanti e smalto

Pendente a forma di uccello: il corpo è un grande opale scolpito

Bracciale Papaveri, in oro, diamanti e smalto

Orecchini in oro, diamanti, zaffiri e smalto

Anello Iris, in oro, diamanti, perla, smalto

Anello Passione for roses, oro bianco, diamanti, smalto

Anello Snowdrops, oro, ametista, diamanti, smalto

Wood and Russia with Annoushka Ducas

Published on September 5, 2017

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Annoushka Ducas touches wood and recalls her childhood in Russia ♦ ︎
Touch wood, in many countries has a talismanic meaning. It is an action, that is to keep the bad luck away. But touching wood can also mean attachment to an object, perhaps a jewel. This is what the British designer Annoushka Ducas has also thought. She joined the two concepts and launched his latest collection, Touch Wood, inspired by her childhood memories in Russia. The jewels have domes with onion shape as those of the Kremlin churches, along with a noble and resistant wood, the ebony, like the ring that was worn by the designer’s mother. Together with domes, which become pendants, rings or earrings, gold tassels also appear, and a cross but in a Christian-orthodox version, with three bars horizontally. Ebony is sometimes visible, for example as an onion-shaped pendant, while sometimes wood, hand-worked, is hidden inside the jewel but always in contact with the skin: it is its function catch lucky. In addition to wood, jewels are made of gold, diamonds, aquamarine. Giulia Netrese

Croce cristiano ortodossa con 88 diamanti e oro rodiato nero

Anello in oro, diamanti e ciondolo in ebano

Annoushka Ducas, ciondolo con prenite, oro, diamanti, ebano

Collana con ciondoli della collezione Touch Wood

Anello in oro giallo con diamanti e ebano

Van Cleef & Arpels, winter is magic

Published on November 30, 2016

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Clip Fée de l’Hiver clip, oro bianco e diamanti

The collection of fine jewelry Contes d’Hiver, signed by Van Cleef & Arpels and presented in Russia: the magic of winter in 18 pieces.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, many exiles were moved to France. And, over time, the link between Russia and Paris became stronger. Among the pleasant aspects of the French capital, the Russians with disposable income had found Van Cleef & Arpels. And it’s for this special bond that unites the French company to the Russians that every two years, a fine jewelry collection is presented in St. Petersburg or Moscow. And so, in 2016 has been the announcement in Russia of the Contes d’Hiver collection that is inspired by the harsh winter, but also to the beauty of the snow and ice. A collection that includes 18 pieces, and is divided like a fairy tale, including snowflakes and flowers hibernated between ice crystals, from the classic edelweiss all’elleboro. There are also those technical virtuosities that made famous the high jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels. Necklace and bracelet Flocons Précieux can be worn comfortably thanks to an ingenious system of springs, of course invisible, which makes the soft white gold sets. The seven rings, instead, are designed with a form already used by the Maison since 1972. Some pieces also have another specialty: can be worn open or closed. In practice, it’s like having two pieces of the same collection. Giulia Netrese

Anelli della collezione Contes d'Hiver — Anelli della collezione Contes d’Hiver

Bracciale Flocons Précieux in oro bianco e diamanti

Orecchini Flocons Précieux in oro bianco e diamanti

Anello Envolée Precieuse, oro bianco e diamanti

Russians are coming

Published on November 22, 2016

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The big advance of the army of jewelry store Sokolov, the largest gold company in Russia.
After the big tycoons who come to the West to buy luxury goods or football teams, in Western Europe the Russian jewelers have also arrived. Indeed, they are from long been in action, although not in all countries. But where the Russian Sokolov jewelry brand has decided to focus, it did great. In Britain, for example, in a few months the Sokolov jewelry store have passed this fall the threshold of 50. In Switzerland and Germany, however, there are quite some. And to think it all started after the collapse of the Soviet regime, when Elena and Aleksey Sokolov, fascinated by jewels, started in 1993 with just nine employees to create jewelry. Now, 20 years later, the small family workshop has become the largest jewelry manufacturer in Russia, with 5,000 employees, 6,000 stores in 12 countries. The jewelry is not high end, but they have a very popular price. There aren’t precious collections, in fact, but in return, the choice is quite wide: the company has about 30,000 different types of jewelry. Sokolov is to watch. Federico Graglia

Damiani to the court of the tzars

Published on April 15, 2016

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Jewelry Damiani for the Tsars. The Italian Maison presented in Moscow two lines of jewelry in collaboration with the actress Nicoletta Romanoff. The name is not accidental: the actress, who already wore Damiani jewelry a couple of years ago, it is a descendant of the dynasty of monarchs who ruled Russia for nearly half a millennium. Incidentally, the tsars had a weakness for jewelry, as evidenced by their treasure, remained to witness this passion. The Damiani jewels would not disfigured in the coffer of Nicholas II: the first collection, Fiori d’arancio (orange blossom), is inspired by the marriage of the actress’s grandparents and designers, that were Prince Nicholas Romanoff and the Italian Countess, Sveva della Gherardesca. To stay in tune with the tradition, the collection includes a tiara, a typical jewel of Imperial Russia. To create the tiara it took six months to work, 500 grams of special pink gold, more than 4,500 diamonds and 83 Japanese white pearls. The second collection, Fiocco, remember the magnificent era of Peter the Great and of the courts of Elizabeth and Catherine the Great. Rings and necklaces are all made of white gold and diamonds. They would have been a successful in the court of the tsars. Lavinia Andorno