We’re used to a certain set of materials in the repertoire of the designers’ toolkit of design, such as gold, colourless diamonds, and perfectly round pearls. But while those precious materials rightly deserve to be the standard for jewellery creation, sometimes taking the path less taken is better — and choosing different, alternative materials invites a different kind of beauty.
Today, we’re going to be looking at some gorgeous pieces of jewellery offered by GMG Jewellers. The common element of these pieces is that they’re all designed with materials that are less “usual” than what shoppers are likely to see from high-end pieces of fine jewellery. However, another common element is that they’re all gorgeous and eye-catching works of art. Let’s take a look below:
1. Sterling Silver
It’s a little strange, isn’t it, that silver doesn’t get as much love as gold in the modern world? It’s one of the precious metals people have been working since prehistory, and civilizations have given the lustrous white metal a place of honour as currency, jewellery, and a symbol of brilliance and nobility. But questions of history aside, this Tacori Crescent Cove Necklace SN226, part of GMG Jeweller’s larger collection of sterling silver necklaces, is a delicate, gorgeous example of why silver continues to be precious metal of kings: The round diamonds, set pave-style in the pendant of this piece, don’t capture attention so much as reflect their inner fire on the flowing moonlight of the 925 sterling silver from which Tacori crafted this necklace.
2. Colored Diamonds
Ironically, for as rare as people consider colourless diamonds to be, it’s coloured diamonds that are rarer. Colourless diamonds, which refract light in fiery ways, are lovely, but there’s something miraculous about how the atomic structure of diamonds can trap other molecules and create brilliant colours across the whole rainbow. Something as simple as adding nitrogen is capable of making diamonds as vivid and luminously yellow as the above earrings, the Henri Daussi Jewels FCE1Y. The unique thing about this piece by Henri Daussi is that it takes advantage of colourless diamonds to make a gorgeous contrast with the yellow diamonds while inviting their inner fire to the larger whole of the piece.
3. Baroque Pearls
Admittedly, there’s something enviable about seeing a single, perfectly round pearl in a ring. The smoothness, cleanness, and natural perfection about a round pearl has made jewellery lovers swoon for millennia. But let’s give a little love to the baroque (or non-round) pearl: While perfection has its own kind of beauty, something that’s imperfect, asymmetrical, rough, and incomplete captures a kind of “beauty in the here and now” or in “beauty in authenticity”. We don’t think there’s any choice from the collection of fashion rings offered at the jewellery store of GMG Jewellers, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, that has more of a rough-hewn elegance than the appropriately named Claude Thibaudeau One of a Kind Fashion Ring BW-365.
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