Three Diamond Ring with Filigree and Hand Engraving and a Story!
Three Jewelers Down, Would I Be the Fourth?
Has somebody ever challenged you in your work and simply pushed you to locations you by no means went earlier than? It occurred to this Santa Barbara Jewellery Designer and that is the ring that got here out of that crucible of problem. This ring is a insurgent!
A Renaissance Man Takes on the Jewellery Institution
My shopper was an architect, had constructed his personal home and his personal boat! This man knew from design! He wished an engagement ring for his attractive girl love.
He had clear concepts on what he did and didn’t need in a jewellery design. The issue was that within the guidelines of bijou design his design thought wasn’t supportable. That’s what the three jeweler’s he spoke to earlier than me defined to him.
The Facet View of “The Architect’s Ring”
Dreaming the Unattainable Dream, Jewellery-Clever
I took on this loopy undertaking as a result of I favored him and thought I might determine a technique to give him what he wished.
The insurgent jeweler in me wished to interrupt some guidelines and make some jewels!
Worthy of a Nationwide Journal Article
The story of how this rule breaking, distinctive engagement ring got here to be made is in an article written about it in MJSA Journal “The Architect’s Ring.”
Right here’s a titillating excerpt:
“Tomas had one sturdy dislike that she knew instantly was going to be a drawback. Throughout the exploratory part of the design course of (wherein Gold usually sketches concepts by hand), Tomas stated he hated the sorts of lengthy prongs used on most three-stone rings, which begin at the bottom of the crown part of the ring and lengthen to the highest of the gemstone.
He stated the prongs reminded him of unwieldy architectural helps. What he actually wished was a filigree design within the setting that may be gentle, lacey, and able to making the three diamonds look airborne, as a substitute of trapped in what he perceived to be inflexible and separate compartments.”
Learn the entire story: The Architect’s Ring
There are His Ethereal Floating Diamonds with the Lacey Look He Wished
An Extraordinarily Pleased Ending
Fortunately I discovered a technique to break the principles and make the Architect’s ring. His fiance liked it. He liked it too and was mighty happy that his thought took flight and landed in a present of wearable love.
