Zoltan David

“I’m not interested in recreating beautiful things into jewellery. I want to design beautiful work with materials that are not obviously beautiful.

FEATURED PIECES Mana Matsuzaki

Aftokrateira

Brooch / Pendant in 18K White and Yellow Gold with Pink Tourmaline and Diamonds

FEATURED PIECES Mana Matsuzaki

Elafi Lefkos

Necklace and Earrings in 18K White Gold with Baroque Pearls and Diamonds

KATEY BRUNINI

Katey Brunini is a fine jewellery artist who is the recipient of the Women’s Jewelry Association Award of Excellence in Design, the American Gem Trade Association’s Editors’ Choice Spectrum Award, the International Pearl Design Competition Award and the MarCom Platinum Award for website design, among many others.

Brunini’s work has been featured in the San Diego Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum, the Gemological Institute of America’s Permanent Collection, the Headley-Whitney Museum (Smithsonian adjunct), as well as at Art Basel Miami. She was raised in a small beach community north of San Diego. “My family was a nomadic tribe of sorts. Education and experiences are important to us. I studied history, art history, design, religion, and gemology, as well as doing jewellery apprenticeships in Italy and California. K. Brunini jewels was launched in the 1990’s and has global brand recognition for design, ethics, and authentic creativity influenced by Mother Nature’s rhymes, and interconnected to a universal rhythm.” Her collections are thematically created and organised – an interesting concept in itself. “I grew up with a librarian mother, so everything in my life has become a series of book chapters organized like the Dewey Decimal system. I don’t really believe in chronological time, thus threads of feelings and sentiments guide my thought process. Themes rise like cream to the top when freed from boundaries and boxes.” Brunini’s pieces are complex and intricately built, some with a hint of Edwardian grandeur; others with a tribal whimsy or bohemian chunkiness. The rings, in particular, are definitive statement/ conversation pieces, the use of organic materials alongside precious gems and metals providing an interesting counter point. This, she says, is a play on raw and refined, good and evil. The idea is to flip it on its side, and then flip it again. “Life is boring when everyone looks and acts the same. Individuality has to be earned in earnest in an age that celebrates “followers”. Decades of thoughts and ideas and millennia of practical techniques merge in our pieces. Conventional rules have blurred edges and they flow into a bigger picture. I find the prettiest ugly, and the ugliest pretty. Timelessness is the goal. The pieces say, “ I stand out in the crowd, not because I am the loudest or the flashiest, but because silently, I touch the depths.” Our clients know what this means - they are not followers.” Brunini loves rubies and opals, especially together. “They pair exceptionally well.....unexpectedly”. She does create on commission, as well as a retail range. “I feel the most important aspect of creating a commissioned piece is to be a focused and good listener. I am a conduit to the combined sensitivities of the creator and the wearer. The jewel is meant to be worn, not hidden away, so it must resonate with the adorned. I have no ego involved with the final creation, I am merely a surrogate of beauty. There must exist a unilateral trust. I trust in the grace and violence of Mother Nature.”

Twig “Chains of Love” necklace

Oxidized sterling silver with bezel set Yowah nut “Unicorn Eye” and 18k yellow gold eyelashes with .50 carat total weight hot pink spinels en tremblant.

FEATURED PIECES Katey Brunini

Vertebrae Bangle

in black oxidized sterling silverwith 200.11 carat total weight aquamarine cabochons, and 2.28 carat total weight diamonds

Objects Organique dragon ring

in 18k yellow, white, or rose gold and black rhodium with 3.24 carat emerald cut red spinel and .03 carat total weight ruby eyes

Objects Organique antler ring

in 18k yellow, white, or rose gold with 6.01 carat cushion cut lavender spinel and .37 carat total weight diamonds

DNA ring

in platinum with 8.46 carat gray spinel cushion cut center and 5.18 carat total weight gray spinel side stones and approximately .55 carat total weight diamonds

Skipping Stones necklace

in oxidized sterling silver with 12 Koroit and opals in matrix and 5 gigantic Sleeping Beauty turquoise beads

Skipping Stones earrings

in 18k yellow, white, or rose gold with bezel set opals and turquoise beads

“Life is boring when everyone looks and acts the same. Individuality has to be earned in earnest in an age that celebrates “followers”.

FEATURED PIECES Katey Brunini

Vertebrae necklace

in 18k yellow gold and oxidized sterling silver with 16 bezel set Australian opals

Skipping stones necklace

in black oxidized sterling silver and morganite beads with 87.22 carat pear shaped Madagascar Morganite cabochon and 1.70 carat total weight diamonds and .80 carat total weight pink diamonds set in lightning bolt

Objects Organique necklace

in 18k rose gold with crystallized shells, South Sea pearls, carved Midway coral beads, and approx. 0.55 carat total weight irradiated blue diamonds and opal clasp

VALERIE JO COULSON

Valerie Jo Coulson is an American designer whose brand is strongly defined by her personality and philosophy. Coulson majored in Fine Arts with three semesters in jewellery making and recognized quickly that this was the medium for her expression. She has worked as an independent studio jewellery artist since 1979.

www.valeriejocoulson.com

All of her pieces, unique as they are, have strong emotional and literary connections and are created first and foremost for herself, but “within the context of communicating a collective consciousness. ” “By the age of nine, I was well on into my immersion in the arts and cognizant of its power and importance to humanity. At the time, reading Irving Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy, life of Michelangelo, I experienced what I might describe as an epiphany, compelling me to proclaim that I was going to live my life as an artist. My work in essence is a visual biography, steeped in existential contemplations synchronically with history and events which inform, inspire and perplex me.” Collectors of her jewellery would appreciate the unique and stunning aesthetic of each piece all the more if they are aware of the narrative behind it. They would also relate to it subliminally. “The defining thread of my beliefs and transcription through my work is woven within the philosophy of Sacred Geometry... the interconnectedness and inseparability of the part from the whole. Geometries are the archetypes of a universal language that describes the seen and unseen order of nature and the cosmos; rhythms and cycles, relationship of form, movement, space and time. I believe this is an intrinsic narrative which resonates through energies/vibrations. Aesthetically and no less paramount, is beauty manifested through symmetry and order. My father in his tutelage often said to me ‘simplicity is beauty’.” Coulson’s traditional fabrication methods and the prolific and intricate use of stone inlay, as well as her choice of materials make a strong visual impact. “I like to refer to them as ‘Character stones’, because each has its own script and unique reveal. My heart beats a little faster when I look at stones that have a chatoyant effect (from the French verb “chatoyer” meaning to shine like a cat’s eye): Opal, Tiger Iron/Tiger’s Eye, Rutilated Quartz, Moonstone. They are also the most difficult to inlay as the orientation and cutting is crucial to optimize the beauty, the play of light. The architecture of the jewel is configured via traditional, time honored metal working techniques of fabrication and forming. This structure or bridgework creates the windows or compartments within which to inlay the stone. In this methodology, I can create sculptural form and painterly canvas utilizing a modicum of these precious materials. This is integral to me in a spiritual connection to the land. The entirety of the work is by my own hands, with the exception of several pieces in the last couple of years incorporating elements which are 3D printed and cast such as the linkages for the Concatenation d’etoiles necklace.” Each Coulson piece is striking in its own way, inspired as it is by specific events, moods or other works of art, yet at the same time the artist’s signature style throughout the collection is unmistakable. Clients are primarily collectors who buy specifically the Valerie Jo Coulson creation as well as what is ultimately a statement piece of wearable art.

Concatenation d’etoiles Necklace

FEATURED PIECES Valerie Jo Coulson

Chiaroscuro Necklace Gauntlet Cuff

“Aesthetically and no less paramount, is beauty manifested through symmetry and order. My father in his tutelage often said to me ‘simplicity is beauty’.”