FOR THE LOVE OF FINE JEWELRY

For about 3 decades, I have been obsessed with the art of collecting antiques- everything from cameras, religious relics, fabrics, plates, jars, jewelry, statuary, gates, telephones, electric fans, paintings, carved woodworks, furniture, musical instruments, Chinese dolls, men’s hats, Beatles/Elvis memorabilia, and just about anything. I have an incurable addiction with art itself and an intense passion for the very act of collecting. The fondness and enduring love for them have continued to shape taste through the years, and now at this stage even more.

My interest gravitates toward my artistic dream of creating fine vintage jewelry. I am fascinated with antique jewelry because aside from the aura of glamour and preciousness which they possess, they have interesting and attractive settings. Their variety is so great and wide range but I want my jewelry creations to be more distinctive, bolder, and unique with an opulent edge. Through years of experimentation by imaginatively combining a playful assortment of different kinds of jewelry in various periods, I developed my own style and came up with designs that are perfectly matched to great effect, highly personal, and enchanting. The beauty is in the mix!

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Philosophy & Design Concept

The emphasis is to produce one of a kind superbly crafted custom made jewelry that is fascinatingly unusual and exciting. Each design is made with love, painstaking detail, exclusivity & inspiration fired by a craving to refresh buried treasure memories.

The aim is to uncover the core values of antique jewelry. Get the desired detail from one piece of jewelry to the next and set them in a design that perfectly suits the wearer. By paying careful attention on the different portions, it compliments and draws the eye to the overall new piece to come up with an extraordinary masterpiece of unparalleled timeless elegance.

This is the art of workmanship involved in my designs.

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My earliest influences with antique jewelry began in childhood. I liked browsing through jewelry stores and had fun trying on my family’s own collection. They made such a strong mark on me not only for their elegance but for the thought that each piece of jewelry at the same time carries a message, a piece of history alienated from us by decades or centuries.

I am not only an antique collector but a creator of art as well. As far back as I can remember, I knew that I was destined to be involved with art one way or another. When I started creating jewelry, I was blown away with the possibilities. I agreed to design for my friends and suddenly, I discovered the artist’s passion within myself. The activity was engaging. It nourished my inner self and I found it liberating.

I want my friends and clients to enjoy my creations. When they entrust me to reinvent their old jewelry collections, my foremost goal is to carefully execute the designs by listening very closely and take into consideration their personalities, individual visions, adaptations, and lifestyles. Since my friends are fully aware of the unbounded confidence I have in my taste, perfectionism, and attitude, they know I will make simple things appear elegant. It is an instinctive thing and comes naturally because I am thoroughly eccentric. I never do specific styles and I follow no trend or set of rules. For me, what is important is the feeling. It is the appreciation of “liberation” that defines my work. The final assessment regarding the design, develop as a result of this course of inquiry. Every design emerges as an individual work and therefore each one assumes a unique identity.

My enthusiasm for the arts is furthered by my continual travels. I have been fortunate to have toured the world as a young man where my appreciation of cosmopolitan attitude and aesthetics grew. My work is a result of my own combination of experiences. I amalgamate ideas I picked up from my travels. I take the things that I love and transform them into my very own original creative work. These influences are the heart and soul of my artistry that percolate in my designs.

I acquire my antique jewelry through a variety of sources including private estates. Each time I find that these fine pieces of jewelry have been abandoned for lack of interest, it saddens me that they will just end up to be auctioned or melted and sold for their monetary value instead of being cherished by a family. My deeper desire is to save antique jewelry for posterity and immortalize some part of ourselves, our families and ancestors in order to awaken the future generation’s sense of history.

There is no time like the present to preserve the past. I would like to revolutionize the way most people think of old jewelry- that their grandparents’ or parents’ jewelry are just another pair of earrings, wedding ring, or bracelet. There is a kind of feeling, a fun way of looking back and recalling specific moments drawn from the past. This fresh approach in jewelry design presents a thread of history that weaves a tale and makes jewelry especially personal and forever ageless.

This is the long-held dream I have been waiting my whole life to do. It is therefore a privilege to present my design concept and expose people to “new possibilities”. I hope that these samples of my creations will exert an incredible influence on everyone’s imagination and begin to have a rich appreciation for antique fine jewelry and be inspired.

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