Two genius of their epoch
René Lalique was a real revolutionary of his time. He invented the new way of looking at the jewelry. His work you can’t confuse with anyone else. It assumed imprint of its creator and...
Category: JEWELRY JOURNAL
Indian Thandatti
Look at this amazing gold earrings. The abstract constructive design could be contemporary, couldn’t it?! The three-dimension form is so impressive and composed of almost sharp geometry: squares and spheres. This type of earrings...
VicenzaOro 2020. Interesting discoveries from the January edition.
Vicenza Oro is one of the most prestigious international jewelry exhibitions and worth visiting destination for discovering designers and famous brands from different countries, gems trading and jewelry manufacturers. This time I had only one...
Atelier Munsteiner. Unconventional and expressive stone cut
During my last trip to New York I was fortunate to meet with jewelers from Germany Tom and Jutta Munsteiner. Their jewelry always featured always unique and modern fantasy gemstone cut constantly flashes in...
Mysterious ancient amulet
A few days ago on Christie’s website I stumbled on an curious gold amulet found in the Balkan territory and created around the 5th millennium BC. Technically it can be divided into two parts:...
About one ring
About gold ring “René Descartes” by German artist Manfred Bischoff. In his work the artist researched parallels, artistic interrelation between language, drawing, sign and jewelry. For me, as a philologist, his art is of...
Bex Manners. Bridging the gap between artisan and collector
Recently one article caught my eye. The author described some human activities that UNESCO had included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. It made me think how fragile and vulnerable our...
