When you find the perfect gemstone, it’s love at first sight. It speaks to you, tells you what it can become. You can already picture it cut and polished, how the gold ought to be shaped to best caress it, how it will recline in a pendant on the wearer’s throat or reign enthroned atop a ring. Each stone has a story to tell.
Perfect doesn’t always mean technically flawless. You know perfection when you see it. It draws you in, shimmers with a mysterious, inviting glow. It glimmers with soul. It just takes the hand of an artist to bring it to life.
This is the power of the designer with a story to tell and the artisan with a mastery of the jeweler’s craft. In their hands, metal and stone transform into something lively, something that carries meaning, whose meaning and importance grows as a wearer forms a relationship with it. A jewel with a story attracts the person who was meant to wear it, and the piece becomes a part of their story.
Think about those classic jewels, the kind displayed in museums, that are still beautiful even today. These pieces are the individual expressions of an artist, created to celebrate a particular person or event, to tell a particular story about the world. Even hundreds of years later, we recognize the singular beauty in unique jewelry and are moved by the stories they tell because they’re not beholden to a particular trend or context. They’re alive with the soul of an artisan. They transcend time and touch something within.
Hand-crafted high jewelry connects us to the world, from the earth that produces these raw treasures, to the hands of the artisans that shape them into works of art, to the wearers all over the world who bring these special jewels into their lives. Together, we create living works of art.
The same high craft approach we put into our bespoke pieces informs the pieces found in our collections. Each collection is an expression of a designer’s vision and a craftsman’s mastery, each with its own relationship to color, space, and movement, each with a visual story that will resonate with discerning collectors.
