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The Tasaki’s zen pearls

Published on August 26, 2022

The luxury jewelry by Japanese Tasaki, design and pearls ♦

If the Japanese Zen gardens will be transformed into jewelry, you probably could find it among the Tasaki collections. Pearls, simple shapes, but dazzling, great quality: the light, fresh, clear of the Japanese brand jewelry are intended for those who love the clean lines and classic modernity. The company cultivates and trades in pearls since 1950: it is the main activity, which gives work to a thousand employees. In 1962 he started designing jewelry.

Danger Tribe large earrings in oro bianco e perle Akoya

But the breakthrough came in 2009, with the Thai designer Thakoon Panichgul, who has also created jewelry worn also by the American First Lady. The collaboration has yielded some of the most successful collections. And also introducing a breath of renewal. For example, with the use of inverted diamonds, combined together with the pearls as opposed elements of a unitary balance. La Maison not only uses Akoya pearls, but also South Sea. Next to jewelry using pearls also offers classic collections of rings, necklaces or bracelets in gold and diamonds.

Collezione Comet, orecchini in oro bianco, perla e diamanti

Collezione Comet, anello in oro bianco, perla e diamanti

Collezione Comet, anello in oro rosa e diamante

Collana Danger Fang in oro giallo, perle, diamanti

Anello Danger Spike in oro giallo e perle South Sea

Melanie Georgacopoulos’s tour

Published on December 25, 2020

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Bracciale in oro con madreperla e diamanti

From Athens to Tokyo, via London: the long road to Melanie Georgacopoulos, Greek designer with international soul.

The School of Athens is not only that of the ancient philosophers like Plato, of architects-sculptors like Phidias or playwrights as Aeschylus. Greece is also home to a large patrol of designers, who have managed to obtain international visibility. This is the case of Melanie Georgacopoulos, born and raised in Athens from greek father and a French mother. From first she received a passion for the roots of civilization and the art of ancient Greece, including jewelry. From second she has inherited the sensitivity is typically French taste. Melanie has mastered the art goldsmith to Mokume Institute of Athens.

This international profile is also reflected in her refined jewelry production: a modern design, rich and minimalist at the same time.

She moved early in the Edinburgh College of Art (sculpture) and then at the Royal College of Art (Master in Jewelry). Later she moved to London, where he founded his company of jewelry in 2010: her specialty is the innovative combination of metal and pearls. From London to Tokyo: in 2012 she began collaborating with the Japanese jeweler Tasaki. An idea that has been successful: the jewelry line produced is now called M / G Tasaki.

The designer has also focused her creativity on mother of pearl, unfairly considered a by-product of the pearl industry. Nacre is produced by mollusks as an inner layer of the shell and also forms the outer coating of the pearls. It is a strong, resilient and iridescent material that has been used for thousands of years, mainly in the form of inlay. For this Melanie Georgacopoulos decided to enhance it (and she succeeded very well). Lavinia Andorno

Pendente Cube in oro giallo, madreperla e perla di acqua dolce

Pearls Danger with Tasaki

Published on October 31, 2019

Rings/COLLANE

Aggressive-looking jewels in Tasaki’s Danger collection. Which also offers three pieces without pearls ♦ ︎

Since 1954 Tasaki has been producing jewelery with pearls. From Japan, a country that loves and respects traditions, for years the big company has offered jewels that respected traditional forms in the same way. But then, in more recent years, the wind of design has arrived and the Japanese manufacturer has introduced jewelry with bolder shapes. One of the latest creations, for example, is the Danger collection. The jewels, in effect, resemble an object that can to keep away from women who wear them molesters or men with not too polite manners. At the same time, they are fun and elegant.

But it is not the only innovation. A larger one is, in a sense, a collection composed of only three pieces. Which looks really new to Tasaki: it has no pearls. It is Elysium, which is inspired by the world of Atlantis, the legendary city similar to a dazzling gem hidden in the sea. A blue topaz cut in half, divided into two symmetrical parts, increases the surprise. Alessia Mongrando

Collana Elysium in oro bianco, topazi blu, zaffiri blu, viola, rosa, gialli, grossularite

Bracciale Elysium in oro bianco, topazi blu, zaffiri blu, viola, rosa, gialli, grossularite

Orecchini Elysium in oro bianco, topazi blu, zaffiri blu, viola, rosa, gialli, grossularite