For something colourful, foxy and groovy, the new Flower Funk collection hits all the right marks The Spring-Summer offering, Flower Funk, is a fine colour therapy for jewellery lovers. What inspired your line, and its name? I started working on it probably two years ago and only thought of the…
DESIGN IN THE TIME OF LOCKDOWN
The world went into lockdown last year with the outbreak of COVID-19. Lives changed, lives crumbled. But amidst all the chaos, it gave many of us a renewed sense of purpose. It certainly gave several designers inspirations for new jewellery collections. We caught up with two independent jewellers to check…
ALL THINGS NEW AND BEAUTIFUL FOR SPRING
A rundown of three jewellery brands with sublime offerings for Spring Brand: Minka Jewels Founder: Lucy Crowther Latest Launch: The new Berlin collection by Lucy Crowther comprises simple, bold, chunky rings with flashes of colour. She stumbled into the world of jewellery while working for a stylist in London who…
JEWELLERY DESIGNER DANIELA VILLEGAS TALKS COFFEE TABLES AND BOOKS
Daniela Villegas talks about her new insect-inspired coffee table and a love of books. Daniela Villegas If you follow Los Angeles-based Mexican jeweller Daniela Villegas on Instagram, you may have spied that big cricket in her living room. A fairly recent addition to her space, it is a wicker coffee table…
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH MORITZ GLIK
Brazilian jewellery designer Moritz Glik used to design shoes before he decided to trade them for gemstones. Back in Belo Horizonte, he had a shoe company, where he designed sandals, sneakers, leather shoes – the whole gamut of footwear. “I was not planning on becoming a jewellery designer,” he says. In…
MIKIMOTO’S CHERRY BLOSSOM COLLECTION IN FULL BLOOM
New additions to MIKIMOTO’s delicate Cherry Blossom collection signals the arrival of Spring Japan’s cherry blossom season is one of the country’s most anticipated natural phenomena, drawing excitement not just from the Japanese, but from travelers across the globe as well. This period, where cherry blossom flowers explode in all…
Flip through the full issue of Special Edition Switzerland 2021
While all leisure travel plans have been temporarily shelved, we make a case for Switzerland in this Swiss tourism special, ensuring that it tempts and excites as soon we can all take to the skies.
THE SECRET GARDEN OF NUÒ BY CINDY YEUNG HIGH JEWELLERY
A high jewellery collection where the love affair between nature and craftsmanship blooms Cindy Yeung, Emperor Watch & Jewellery’s Chairperson and CEO, and a professional team of jewellery artisans have always endeavoured to instill unique inspirations, captivating designs, and exquisite craftsmanship into the making of each bejeweled masterpiece in the…
PALMIERO IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Our love affair with Italian high jewellery brand Palmiero continues with the introduction of new collections that celebrate beauty, form, and the Made in Italy distinction Bracelet from Palmiero’s Vanity collection Palmiero Gioielli was founded by Carlo Palmiero in 1979 and is known for stunning one-of-a-kind jewellery creations that feature…
BOOK TALK: FIVE MINUTES WITH MARION FASEL
Marion Fasel is a jewellery historian and author of eight other books on twentieth-century jewellery. She is the founder of the online jewellery magazine, The Adventurine. Fasel’s new book, Beautiful Creatures: Jewelry Inspired by the Animal Kingdom, depicts some of the most spectacular beasts transformed into sparkling treasures. She tells…
