Maastricht jewellery
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Monday, 13 March 2017
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Jewellery
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A small collective and the finest Jewelers and take up space here every year, knowing that the footfall there are meaningful and also - many are willing to buy a Chagall or Henry Moore and spirit, a piece of Belperron vintage or Wallace Chan in the next.
As is common with Hemmerle, the pieces are a mix of materials and new techniques - a spinel purple nestled in a cage about the weight of anodized aluminum to form a ring; Egyptian micro-stones of the 19th century (a popular topic in the house) are set in silver to create earrings; Italian 18th century cameos are suspended from the sand-blasting horn, and the process was only discovered and perfected the workshops few weeks ago to see the diamonds caught in a ring of copper wire to create earrings.
"We set the diamonds in the sunshine wax, then wrapped string around the building of the birds and hold them, gently explained heat and melt the crayons away," explains Christian. They are (carats more than 12 diamonds each) large but light and airy. "Someone once told me," she continued, "small earrings should be heavy, long earrings must be light". edit
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