Garden flower brooch. Enamel, crystals, glass cabochons, brass, gold plated. Michal Golan handcrafted jewelry art

Michal Golan handcrafted jewelry art
The history of Michal Golan jewelry trademark began in 1982 in New York. Its founder – American artist and designer from Israel Michal Golan. According to Golan, she finds inspiration in the Victorian era, Byzantium and the Middle East art. The second source of her inspiration is the visual richness that she encounters in her everyday life. Perhaps, that’s why her bright and elegant jewelry pieces is wearable art.
Traditionally, she uses various metals, gold and silver tone alloys, gold plating, brass and pewter. Unusual in their beauty and elegance, flowers and patterns are framed in round, oval, triangular and rectangular shapes. Combining geometry, beauty of nature, fantasy and high craftsmanship, she made her jewelry popular with lovers of costume jewelry.
Created by Michal Golan collections include various themes – Cosmic, Earth, Icicle, Lilac, Hamsas, Menorahs, etc.
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1970s Designer vintage brooch with charms. Brass, silver tone alloy. Cara Stimmel costume jewelry

Cara Stimmel costume jewelry
The history of Cara Stimmel jewelry began in 1987. Before starting to manufacture costume jewelry, Cara Stimmel handcrafted jewelry in her workshop. She founded the eponymous jewelry company Cara Stimmel LTD in 1987. Thus, having worked in the jewelry market for more than thirty years, Stimmel has achieved some success in business.
She tried to keep up with fashion trends and created her own, unique designs using a new approach to her jewelry. In particular, along with the traditional jewelry alloy and glass, she uses found objects, details of watch mechanisms, creating steampunk jewelry. Thus, her products have become recognizable and loved by both collectors of vintage costume jewelry and fans of steampunk jewelry.
Exquisitely crafted, her artful original design make Cara Stimmel jewelry real work of art.
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Autumn leaf. Garnets, diamonds, sapphire. Japanese jewellery brand Gimel

Japanese jewellery brand Gimel
Talented Japanese designer Kaoru Kay Akihara founded her firm “Gimel” in 1992. She received an excellent education in jewelry design and painting. In addition, she studied the traditional Japanese art of ikebana and the laws of the tea ceremony. The latter clearly had an impact on the design of products of the firm “Gimel”.
According to Kaoru Kay Akihara, “history should be behind the decoration”. Therefore, many of her works include tiny details, for example, a small snail crawling on the inside of the brooch leaf. Thanks to such details, Gimel products are unique and very special.
Japan’s natural beauty is a source of inspiration for Gimel masters. Noteworthy, Akihara herself selects the smallest pebbles, because paints and shades are very important for her. Thus, she tries to capture the beauty of nature at its best moments, while the fire of life burns in it. The jeweler uses gems as a palette.
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Tiger tulip bracelet. Gold, diamonds and green garnets. 1994. Joel Arthur Rosenthal precious art JAR jewellery

Joel Arthur Rosenthal precious art JAR jewellery
The history of JAR began in 1977. The name of the brand is actually an abbreviation of Joel Arthur Rosenthal. Born in Bronx, New York in 1943, Rosenthal studied history at Harvard, and worked in the film industry. However, passion for jewelry led him to Bulgari.
In the 1970s, he settled in Paris and began producing fine jewelry.
Known as the Faberge of our time, he produced around 80 pieces per year. Traditionally, his designs include flowers and branches, recreated from precious metal and covered with small gems. The revival of naturalism, which occurred in the 1980s thanks to JAR, has become the most characteristic of jewelry design in the 1990s. Naturalistic motifs received a fresh, and often sculptural three-dimensional embodiment.
Noteworthy, JAR has destroyed the boundaries between decorative and sculptural decorations, just as Lalique did with his art nouveau jewelry at the beginning of the 20th century.
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‘After the rain’ vintage brooch. Gilded brass, art glass. 5 cm. Stella and Dot costume jewellery

Stella and Dot costume jewellery
The history of Stella Dot jewelry brand began in 2003, founded by Jessica Herrin. She named her company after her grandmothers, Stella & Dot. According to Jessica Herrin, her mission is to give every woman the means to style her own life. Besides, she set a goal to help women make a good career, producing goods also for women.

Making jewelry for herself even in childhood, she decided to turn her passion into a profession and very soon achieved amazing success. Thus, just a year and a half after the creation of Stella and Dot, its sales exceeded half a million dollars. Noteworthy, the company entered the list of the 500 fastest growing US companies. Stella Dot jewelry created by famous designers in New York appeared in the series “Gossip Girl”, as well as in magazines “In Style” and “Lucky Magazine”.
In 2007, Blythe Harris became Jessica’s partner. The rebranded company began a new round of growth, and today the sales figure is more than one hundred million.

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Autumn ring. Gold, enamel, diamond and silver. Dulber Qirim jewellery house

Dulber Qirim jewellery house
Crimean Tatar word “dülber” means “beautiful”, or “charming.” That is how artist Mehdi Islamov named his jewelry house in 1999. According to him, he inherited the family traditions of his ancestors engaged in the trade in jewelry, and transformed them into jewelry art.
Noteworthy, Mehdi himself draws jewelry sketches based on the ancient Crimean jewelry craft. In addition, he restores the lost skills, for example, a complex technique of granulation. Also, he has perfectly mastered the ancient art of hot enamel – fusion of glass and metal, once flourished in Crimea.
Today, the Dulber jewelry house, represented by Mehdi Islamov, has received many awards. In particular, the Great Commander’s Order of the 2nd Degree, established by the Carl Faberge Memorial Foundation. Also, the title of Honored Jeweler of the International Class, and “Honorary Jeweler of the Muslim World”.
Fortunately, sons and nephews of Mehdi Islamov continue the family business, mastering all the subtleties of the jewelry art.

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Sunny chariot. Material – silver 925, gilding, inserts – hot enamel, pearls. size 12×2.5×7 cm. Author Vera Palkina. Awarded with the 1st degree diploma in the “Interior decoration” nomination at the “Jewelry Olympus” competition in St. Petersburg. December 2010. Ilya Palkin jewelry design studio

Ilya Palkin jewelry design studio
Kostroma, Russia based jewelry company founded by Ilya Palkin and his wife Vera create unique jewelry based on Slavic and folk motifs. In their creative duo, Vera is responsible for the design and Ilya embodies her ideas into life. The gallery of their jewellery works include Russian fairy tale designs. Among them flowering fern, a rupture-grass, Yaril-sun, owls and birds, smiling snakes, fish, cats and hares, etc. Meanwhile, each piece, whether it’s a bird or just a nameless character, is anthropomorphic in some ways and certainly animate.
Graduates of the Krasnoselsky College of artistic metalworking, Ilya and Vera use the elements of Russian folk embroidery and wood carvings.
However, the style in which artists-jewelers work can vary, from ethnics, animalism, and steampunk. As a rule, they produce their ornaments by collections, thought out in a single style. For example, “Summer”, “Africa” ​​and so on. The main metal is silver, but goldsmiths also use gold, hot enamel, precious and semiprecious stones.
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