olmander
03-19-2008, 10:39 PM
Hi everybody,
This is to share with you my big excitement of yesterday. I was meeting a goldsmith to change the locks on my (still not exactly identified but rather Tahitian) mabes. This is a young man, who graduated in Antwerpen a couple of years ago and now is an independent designer and a goldsmith with very fresh and challenging ideas. Many of his designs include pearls. Of course, I was not able to resist and left with a gorgeous necklace, weak woman... But I also had a great time studying and trying on different interesting things, soooo exquisitely made. I am putting a couple of photos below, aren't they extraordinary? - really done with fantasy and love!
This is just such a contrast to the average quality of pearl collections in Dutch and generally many European jewelry stores (which sell a lot of quite blemished, off-round and still very expensive pearls, not only but often... don't understand why...).
Here are the photos. The first ring is especially beautiful, it has a cahrming FW baroque (I guess it is FW) and white, champaine and black diamonds. So exquisite!
http://images32.fotki.com/v1088/photos/4/413271/5704332/b-vi.jpg
http://images31.fotki.com/v1087/photos/4/413271/5704332/a-vi.jpg
http://images36.fotki.com/v1159/photos/4/413271/5704332/DSC00509-vi.jpg
This is to share with you my big excitement of yesterday. I was meeting a goldsmith to change the locks on my (still not exactly identified but rather Tahitian) mabes. This is a young man, who graduated in Antwerpen a couple of years ago and now is an independent designer and a goldsmith with very fresh and challenging ideas. Many of his designs include pearls. Of course, I was not able to resist and left with a gorgeous necklace, weak woman... But I also had a great time studying and trying on different interesting things, soooo exquisitely made. I am putting a couple of photos below, aren't they extraordinary? - really done with fantasy and love!
This is just such a contrast to the average quality of pearl collections in Dutch and generally many European jewelry stores (which sell a lot of quite blemished, off-round and still very expensive pearls, not only but often... don't understand why...).
Here are the photos. The first ring is especially beautiful, it has a cahrming FW baroque (I guess it is FW) and white, champaine and black diamonds. So exquisite!
http://images32.fotki.com/v1088/photos/4/413271/5704332/b-vi.jpg
http://images31.fotki.com/v1087/photos/4/413271/5704332/a-vi.jpg
http://images36.fotki.com/v1159/photos/4/413271/5704332/DSC00509-vi.jpg