Design
Birth of a Jewel. How does it work? Design is the key for the jewel to be born. Indeed it is incredible how the idea takes shapes and embodies in metal to become an unbelievably beautiful jewellery piece. Just imagine the picture of the future jewel in your head. Then where the metal should flow, how to bend and where to be cut? Where the stones should go? What about small details? Choose the colours of the gemstones. Choose the patterns and swivels on the jewel…
It is such an exiting journey, making possible endless combinations of shapes and sizes to become a real ring, earring or something else. After all this imagination flow gives an immense satisfaction. You can almost feel the piece of jewel on your finger, ear, hand or neck. Rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants yet to be born.
Birth of a Jewel. How Does the Design Become a Jewel?
A couple of options are possible here. If it is a custom, bespoke piece of jewellery than the ideas are coming from you – the Customer. It is your imagination and understanding how your future ring or earring should look like. The metal just captures and materialises your thoughts. Making your imagination real and wearable. How amazing is that?
If the designer is creating the jewels then the piece they create is the end product of their imagination. It will be limited only with the imagination of the designers themselves. Most of the designers are creative personalities with immense fantasy and ingenuity. They usually think out of the box, notice things that the rest don’t and make outstanding things. A great example is a very famous artist – René Jules Lalique.
René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860 – 1 May 1945).
René was a French jeweller and glass designer. In 1872 he entered the Collège Turgot where he started drawing and sketching. He also spent two years at the Crystal Palace School of Art Sydenham, London. When he returned from England, he worked as a freelance artist. He was designing pieces of jewellery for such well known French jewellers as Cartier and Boucheron. In 1885, he opened his own business, designed and made his own jewellery and other glass pieces. After 1895, Lalique also created pieces for Samuel Bing‘s Paris shop, the Maison de l’Art Nouveau, which gave Art Nouveau its name.
Today both unique and mass-market works of René Lalique are in the collections of a large number of public museums all around the world. He is one of the best jewellery masters to design and create outstanding pieces of jewellery and glasswork. We find lots of inspiration in his works.
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