The glam jewels of the Brazilian designer Jack Vartanian ♦ Brazil has long been one of the countries with the largest number of high-end jewelers, perhaps also thanks to the gem mines found in some areas. This is why a small group of designers has grown up capable of making the eyes of many women…
The soft undulations, which are Annamaria Cammilli‘s trademark, are colored. The Dune collection, launched by the Florentine brand in 2010, is renewed year after year with small or large innovations which, in any case, leave the aesthetic imprinting of the jewels unchanged, composed of parallel gold bands, which have inside small gems set. A longevity…
Tourmalines, suns and gray diamonds: the simple but captivating design of Celine Daoust ♦ ︎ Belgian Pride, Indian sensibility, New Age spirituality: you can find the synthesis in a designer, Celine Daoust. She is part of the women born with the objective to make jewelry, of those who from childhood loved to play with the jewelry…
From Lithuania to New York: the irresistible rise of Audrius Kruliš, among opals and tourmalines ♦ Down the fences, barriers, borders, at least to design jewelry, the world does not tend to shrink. Indeed, it widens to new players, who may have been born in surprising places. This is the case of Audrius Kruliš, born…
News is scarce, but there is a lot to observe and, perhaps, wear in Kika Alvarenga’s work. She is one of the few designers who handcraft the prototype of the jewels, ready for the subsequent finishing. You started your business in 2017 and work in Belo Horizonte, the Brazilian capital of the state of Minas…
The jewels of the Australian designer, based in New York, Katherine Jetter ♦ ︎ In which part of the world can a designer be born who describes a ring just made with blue tourmaline and kangaroo-colored spinels? You guessed it: Katherine Jetter was born in Melbourne, Australia. But you do not have to imagine her…
The geometrical and kinetic jewels by Brazilian Yael Sonia, who has known success in New York ♦ There are children who never are stop. But there are also jewels that are always on the move. Gold and precious stones that are always active are the elements that distinguish the work of a successful designer, quite original:…
Takat, brand which won the prestigious Best Design Jck Award, has a history that comes from afar: Haji Nisar Ahmed Takat, was descended from an ancient family of Indian craftsmen stonemasons. In 1955, he opened his first workshop of carving and polishing in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. In 1976, with the help of the children Siraj…
Precious and semi-precious stones in the great majority are heated at high temperatures. Or subjected to radiation. That’s why ♦ If the precious stones warm your heart is perhaps because in turn have been heated. Not from your eyes, but from an electric furnace which can reach 1,600 degrees. The thermal treatment of precious and…
Derek Katzenbach, gem-cutting virtuoso and tourmaline jewelry specialist, has twice won the Spectrum and Cutting Edge Award ♦ You maybe don’t know it, but there is also the Spectrum and Cutting Edge Award. It is an award that is held in New York and is assigned to the virtuous designers. In 2016 the winner for…
There are many jewelers who, like Dale Hernsdorf, studied painting (and in this case, also photography) before turning to earrings, rings and necklaces. A sign that sensitivity to the visual arts is a spice that gives something extra when it comes to designing a jewel. And, indeed, Dale Hernsdorf also has a job as an…
The five senses, but above all the palate, which celebrates the combination of chocolate and jewels. It is the original and creative idea of Doris Hangartner ♦ ︎ There are two things that make a woman happy: jewels and chocolate. Instead, there is only one woman who has decided to combine the two elements: Doris…
Everything you need to know about tourmaline, increasingly fashionable in jewelry ♦ You may have noticed it: for some years now tourmaline, and in particular the Paraiba variety has become the star of jewelry. Few, however, really know this stone, which can take on different colors and which is often confused with other gems. Tourmaline…
x Texas: wide-brimmed hats, boundless spaces, oil wells. And the colored gems of M. Spalten, a small Maison in San Antonio, a city in south-central Texas and the seventh most populous metropolis in the United States. Melissa Spalten lived in Texas, where she still makes her jewelry, although she often resides in California. She discovered…
x In the folds of beautiful jewelry there is also Plissé, a collection signed by Brazilian designer Carolina Neves, who uses folded surfaces to make jewelry. The jewels are in gold and precious stones, such as diamonds, or semi-precious, such as tourmaline. The folds (plissé in French), in addition to giving volume and movement to…
x The couture jewels (and beyond) by Rina Limor, a New York designer who was inspired by Dolce Vita. As it says Dolce Vita in New York? To find out, the jewelry designer Rina Limor in the seventies has spent long periods in Italy. But, besides admiring the Tuscan landscape, the artistic beauty of the…
The colorful and bright jewels by Sunny Jain, Indian by birth but American by adoption, who created Bavna ♦ Sunny by name and by nature. The jewelry designed by Sunny Jain are bright like the sun that illuminates California, where the designer has grown. The love for bright colors, the Bavna designer has acquired since childhood,…
A 24-carat gold and hand-crafted worked by the jewelry designer Gurhan. As in fairy tales, there is a humble artisan who lives in a distant country, Istanbul. And there’s a romantic woman who comes yet to farther, from Australia. The two fall in love and after a few months is born a jewelery. The story…
The jewels of the stars was signed by Jared Lehr, a designer who is takeing off in Hollywood ♦ ︎ He looks like an actor, lives in Hollywood, attends the world of cinema. Yet it does not participate in films and television productions. Jared Lehr, in fact, is a jeweler. Although he offers his work…
Stones, volumes, romanticism and rationality: the jewelry of Ingo Henn with his Henn of London ♦ Ingo Henn belongs to the category of those who wanted to design jewelry since childhood. Not only that: as a child he loved the big colored stones. And he made it a profession. The designer, of German origin, but…