Fashion Jewelry Center —- warm, honest, wood
Peter Carl Faberge for the Commission for the grand finale Tsar Nicolas II was an egg Easter Karelian birch, intended for the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.
"Fabergé had his own personal wood shop by Finnish craftsmen, who worked hand in hand with the goldsmiths, "said Kieran McCarthy, director of Wartski, an art and antiques dealer in London specializing in jewelry boxes, gold, silver and works of art by Fabergé. "For the Russians, exotic wood was as fascinating as the jade. "
The egg was never delivered – at Easter 1917, the tsar and his family were trapped in the Alexander Palace: the revolution and put an end to the activities of Faberge.
Therefore, wood largely disappeared from the High Jewellery – Except for a brief moment in the 1970s, when Cartier turned to ebony for his collection Touch Wood Pendant – displaced by a concern for metals precious and precious stones. ———– Www. Fashionjewelrycentre. Com
"You would not go to Winston Graff Van Cleef or wood and see, "said Rahul R. Kadakia, head of Christie's jewelry in New York. "Branches wooden jewelry more fashionable."
Now, however, the pendulum is now swinging back.
"We take three things of the earth – metal, stone and wood – And they are all natural things, so they have harmony together, "said Axel HM Scheffel, Senior Scheffel-Schmuck Munich, which began to make a line of wooden jewelry, using milling machines controlled by computer, three years ago.
Pairs collected more Scheffel 20 different types of hardwoods, including sheoak, amaranth and Australian walnut, with a rainbow of semiprecious stones such as lemon quartz, green amethyst stone moon.
"Wood is a way of being fashionable and trendy, without having to say:" Here, buy this metal cuff $ 5,000 " said Helene G. Krodel, director of media and special events for Jewelry Information Center in New York.
In this spirit, Italian jeweler Roberto Coin included African ebony recovered in three collections unveiled at the Baselworld luxury watch and jewelry fair in March. His Capri More bracelet ebony and 18-karat yellow gold with cognac diamonds produced a suggested retail price of $ 6,800, compared to 13 500 $ For all gold version.
Another Italian jeweler, Vhernier, based in the traditional heart of gold working in Valencia, is also using Ebony, combined with rose gold in a collection of pieces evoking the simple sinuous and sophisticated forms of modern art and contemporary.
Some designers are drawn to the woods not how it looks or what it costs, but how it feels. Gustav Reyes, owner of Simply Wood Rings Chicago, craft wood recovered in designs that "bring out the warmth and honesty timber. "———– Www. Fashionjewelrycentre. Com
"The wood has a rich color and, of course, oil and when it dark is raised, "said Katey Brunini, a designer based in Solana Beach, Calif., whose collection of cuff links and pendants bracelets Twig integrates cocobolo wood from Costa Rica. His earthy palette and veins can be beautiful. "
The drawings Umane Paris, earned him the prestigious label Joaillerie de France in 2007, Revel in the contrast between dimpled wood, uneven texture and smooth, polished metal and stone. A designer UK, Anthony Roussel, on the other hand, is intrigued by another kind of contrast: It uses a 3D software, rapid prototyping and laser cutting carved wooden rings and bracelets with mathematical precision that contrasts with their organic appeal.
"With the use of wood, I put in traditional notions of preciousness, "Roussel said in a statement published on its website." By using new technologies as a tool, I question the current perceptions of craft. "
Christine J. Brandt, a wood carver and jeweler based in Brooklyn, New York, raises similar issues with wooden jewelry phantasmagorical, which, all by hand, are far from being spun. In his hands, the wood is less of a hippie-chic accent a blunt instrument. ———– Www. Fashionjewelrycentre. Com
"I wanted to make a killer song," Ms. Brandt said a Macassar ebony wood cuff fierce she created a traveling exhibition Swarovski Elements, presented at Baselworld in 2008. The cuff, which requires half a year to carve and polish, has a type specimen ice crystals sprinkled white serrated of green epidote.
Attention: Ms. Brandt is currently focused on a new line of kick dust wedding rings made from tagua nuts and chocolate milky African olive, and topped by the Herkimer diamonds, a type of quartz crystal. Unconventional, to say the least, the phone solitary person in mind from a parallel universe.
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