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The lightness of nature with Luisa Rosas

Published on April 21, 2024

Luísa Rosas, Portuguese designer, heir to a tradition begun in 1860 ♦ ︎

In Portugal, in 1860, Mateus dos Santos Rosas started the activity of jewelry with a small workshop. His country of origin was Gondomar, a town near Porto, a land with coal and gold mines. And for this homeland of artisans, merchants, goldsmiths and jewelers masters. The Rosas family is still in business and runs jewelery stores with the David Rosas brand. But not only. The last descendant of the family, Luísa Rosas, almost 160 years later continues to bring to life the goldsmith tradition of the founder. Although, to be honest, the vocation of Luísa Rosas was architecture. Alongside her passion for designing environments, she decided to continue on the path of great grandfather and to create design jewels.

Orecchini della collezione Tribe in oro giallo e diamanti — Earrings from the Tribe collection in yellow gold and diamonds

Another tribute to the origins is the choice to use yellow or pink gold for her jewels.

The shape of the jewels is often inspired by nature, but making irregular shapes simple and rational, with an aesthetic probably derives from the architectural design. She also aims very much at metal processing, which offers an experience also from a tactile point of view. For example, the Maison often uses the gold filigree technique to make the textures and architectures of the jewels lighter and brighter.

Anello della collezione Tribe in oro giallo e diamanti — ARing from the Tribe collection in yellow gold and diamonds

Orecchini in oro bianco 19,2 carati e diamanti — Earrings in 19.2 carat white gold and diamonds

Orecchini in oro giallo 18 carati e diamanti — 18k yellow gold and diamond earrings

Anello della collezione Tribe in filigrana oro rosa 18 carati e diamanti brown — Ring from the Tribe collection in 18k rose gold filigree and brown diamonds

Orecchini in oro giallo 19,2 carati in filigrana e diamanti — 19.2 carat yellow gold earrings with filigree and diamonds

Gold is transformist with Cadar

Published on December 31, 2023

Showroom

Gold through the creativity of Cadar ♦ ︎

It is only few years old, yet a few editions ago it already won a Couture Design Award on its debut and soon after it landed in the retail sales of Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus. Cadar, founded in 2015 by Michal Kadar, has also collected an award at the Town & Country Magazine Jewelry Awards in 2018. Its stylistic references are Art Deco, Art Nouveau, geometry and Japanese artistic motifs. With a recipe that, in fact, doesn’t have to be very easy to make.

Bracciale in oro 18 carati — 18k gold bracelet

Cadar’s jewels are handmade in New York and Italy. In 2019 Cadar’s jewels also appeared on the shelves of Neiman Marcus, with pieces including feathers from the Reflections collection, Endless and the Second Skin collection, to which were added the jewels of the Second Skin Python collection. Gold, so much yellow gold, punctuated by some diamonds. And many original solutions, like the Fur collection ring that really looks like a tuft of fur.

Orecchini a cerchio in oro e diamanti — Hoop earrings in gold and diamonds

Orecchini Feather in oro 18 carati — Feather earrings in 18k gold

Orecchini Heart in oro 18 carati — Heart earrings in 18k gold and diamonds

Anello Reflection in oro 18 carati e diamanti — Reflection ring in 18k gold and diamonds

Anello Heart in oro rosa 18 carati — Heart ring in 18k rose gold

Bracciale Wings of Love in oro 18 carati — Wings of Love bracelet in 18k gold

Orecchini python in oro giallo 18 carati — Python earrings in 18k yellow gold

How to combine jewelry with skin color

Published on July 11, 2022

Campus

Anello della collezione Arlecchino indossato

How to combine jewelry with the color of your skin. Here are the stones and the type of metal to choose ♦ ︎
You burn yourself in the first ray of sunshine. Or at the sea in two weeks you become chocolate brown. Or, again, you have a skin that does not stand out in the dark. Different colors, opposite shades: which jewelry to match the color of the leather? Or, better, what are the gems and shades of gold that are best with your skin?
To identify stones and metals that enhance the tone of your skin, you must start with a simple operation: identify exactly what is the nuance of your body and, in particular, of your face. Obviously you probably know it already. But further examination can be useful.

Hyderabadfascia — Étourdissant Cartier, fascia Hyderabad in platino con uno smeraldo della Colombia taglio ottagonale di 18.23 carati inciso e zaffiri e smeraldi intagliati, rubini a forma di gocce, rubini, smeraldi e zaffiri a forma di perle, onice, diamanti a forma triangolare e taglio brillante. Può essere indossato anche come bracciale o collana

The color of the veins. For example, if the veins seen under the skin on the wrist or neck are blue or light blue, the skin is almost certainly white or pink, very clear. It is easy in this case to be a skin that easily reddens in the sun. If, instead, the vein color tends to be dark, with a greener shade, the skin will be less clear and will tan more easily. Of course, the skin can be even darker, with infinite nuances: it is good, however, to compare the colors to understand well what is your own tonality.

Il bracciale Mica indossato da Kirsten Owen e-Aak-Deng, La foto è di Intel, scattata da Collier Schorr

Match the colors. Ok, each person has their own tastes and every choice isn’t debatable, but there are gems with colors that seem to stand out better on a specific skin rather than on another.

Anello in oro rosa con calcedonio della Namibia

Light skin. For example, lighter skin seems to benefit from bold colors like red rubies or spinels, garnets, tourmalines, deep blue tanzanites, blue sapphires, blue topaz, or purple amethysts. On the contrary, a white or very light skin goes well with an equally light metal, such as white gold, silver or a pale yellow gold. In addition to the stones it must mention the pearls: the white ones are fine.

Alessio Boschi, anello Ponte di Rialto indossato

Dark skins. Warm colors, such as those of sapphires or yellow topazes, citrine, orange garnets, and green, jade or peridot emeralds are suitable for darker skin. The skin of Latin or dark shades will also be enhanced by metals such as yellow gold or copper. Thaiti pearls are particularly recommended for dark skin.
And the diamonds? We did not mention the most desired gemstones, the diamonds. And there’s a reason: they go well with any skin. Matilde de Bounvilles

La modella Emily Ratajkowski con gioielli Jacquie Aiche

E i diamanti? Non abbiamo citato le pietre preziose più desiderate, i diamanti. E un motivo c’è: vanno bene con qualsiasi pelle. Matilde de Bounvilles

La modella e attrice Tina Kunakey ha indossato gioielli in platino e diamanti Tiffany & Co. — La modella e attrice Tina Kunakey con gioielli in platino e diamanti Tiffany & Co.

Collana di perle modellabile — Stella McCartney, collana di perle modellabile

Ravi Lunia, direttore di Faidee, con la modella russa Ulyana Sergeenko

Collana di Bulgari indossata da Naomi Watts

Collana in corallo e oro indossata — Caterina Murino, collana in corallo e oro indossata

Giovanni Raspini, silver scales

Published on February 23, 2021

Argento/bracciale/Showroom/COLLANE

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A silver jewelry collection inspired by a fox’s skull. It is a rather unusual idea. But it must be added that Giovanni Raspini’s Skin collection for spring-summer 2021 is, in reality, the continuation of an artistic creation by the Florentine jeweler: the Skull of Fox necklace, one of the pieces that were part of the Jewels from a Wunderkammer. In the exhibition, Raspini’s creativity was expressed in unique pieces in which gilded silver was used together with hydrothermal quartz in various colors and, in the case of the necklace, together with a fox skull that had belonged to a Florentine painter.

The Skin collection takes up the motif of juxtaposed scales, used for the jewel that appeared in the exhibition, and adapted to the design of two necklaces, two bracelets, two rings and two earrings. The jewels are made with blackened silver, the slightly irregular contours add a hint of naturalist realism in the reproduction of the scales inspired by the animal world.

The snake skin of Giulia Barela

Published on March 3, 2018

Argento/bracciale/Showroom

Snakeskin in rhodium-plated silver or gold-plated bronze by Giulia Barela ♦ ︎
Snakes change skin, Giulia Barela uses it. Skin is the name of collection of the Roman designer who decided to enter the sinuous world of reptiles, a theme faced since the jewelry exists. The snakes, in short, are not just jewels with a wavy line, or that are rolled up on the wrist. The snake skin (without the snake) becomes instead a decoration motif, of a weft that marks the metal. In this case it is silver, gold-plated bronze or black rhodium-plated silver. Three colors, white, yellow and black, which are chosen for large bracelets, rings and earrings. If, instead, you want others serpent rings, you can opt for the Play collection, which uses the classic shape of the animal that has seduced Eve in its traditional image, that is with the whole body that turns into a jewel. Same last for the Body line, where the snakes become even more sinuous. All that remains is to choose the type of temptation preferred. Giulia Netrese

Anelli della linea Play in argento rodiato

Anello della linea Play in bronzo dorato

Bracciale della linea Body in bronzo dorato

Collana in argento rodiato della linea Body

Giulia Barela, orecchini avvolgenti della linea Skin

Giulia Barela, orecchini della linea Skin