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THE ASTONISHING RAYAN LYNCH JEWELLERY - WORKS OF ART THAT UNITE PEOPLE, CULTURES, AND ERAS text Virginia Mammoli
Although the name by which it is now known throughout the world would not suggest it, the excellence behind the Rayan Lynch brand is 100% Italian and the art, however, knows no boundaries. “Rayan is an Asian name and Lynch is a Nordic surname. I wanted a name that reflects my intention to combine all peoples and cultures in art,” explains Massimiliano Cremonini, the Piacenza artist who created the luxury jewellery brand, winner of numerous international awards including the one received in Kyiv as a successor of Byzantine goldsmith art - his greatest fascination - with a modern interpretation. Rayan Lynch is also included in the book Golden Gamayun that will be presented to the Senate of the Italian Republic in 2022. His jewellery creations, today found in the prestigious showcase of The Jewel Teller in Dubai, are timeless creations, bearers of an ancient heritage and indicators of something that had never been seen before and that never ceases to amaze.
How did Rayan Lynch begin and before that, how did his passion for the world of jewellery, particularly the Byzantine goldsmith art begin?
Art has no religion. It is unique and universal and therefore only it can unite the cultures and religions of the entire world. This is the idea that gave rise to Rayan Lynch. My passion for modelling and shaping comes from long ago, when I was a boy and watched my father, a painter and sculptor. I also began creating, first with metals like iron and copper, then with gold and precious stones. The history of Byzantium immediately captivated me, especially the incredible ability of the Byzantine goldsmith’s art to modify itself in space and over time. We are talking about an extremely large empire that lasted for over a millennium while always remaining consistent with itself and contemporary with its times. My greatest challenge was
‘ART HAS NO to study all its techniques, along
RELIGION. IT with all the mystical and religious
IS UNIQUE AND symbols, another of my passions, UNIVERSAL AND THEREFORE ONLY and put them together to create the art of Rayan Lynch. Which materials and techniques IT CAN UNITE THE do you prefer?
CULTURES AND Gold is the metal that makes genRELIGIONS OF THE erations dream. As for the stones,
ENTIRE WORLD’ the ones that fascinate me the most are the ones that tell a story, whether they are precious or not. Those with inclusions, which we call ‘jardins’ (French for garden) are stories to interpret and they help make a piece of jewellery truly unique. In regard to techniques, I had no conventional training, but over time, and thanks to meeting Raffaella Lamanna, an established goldsmith artist also from Piacenza, I learned engraving, twisted wire, soldering, embedding, and bezels, which in turn were “shaped” to create my own personal technique, adapted to the emo-