Kunio Nakajima Jewellery Garden

Kunio Nakajima Jewellery Garden
Jewellery collection of precious metals and stones “In the Garden” by Japanese master Kunio Nakajima includes more than 80 works of exceptional beauty. The designer personally presented his Dragonflies, berries, mushrooms and flowers at the Museum of Applied Arts in Moscow three years ago.
In the middle of the Taisho era (1918-1920), his grandfather began working as an apprentice in the workshop of Nakajima. Born into a family jeweler, in his childhood, Kunio Nakajima played in the studio and therefore had become well acquainted with the jewellery art. Several people were sitting cross-legged behind a desk and blowing glass … These memories forever remained in the heart of Japanese jeweler. For a boy who grew up in such an environment, it was natural to love manual work when hands and professional tools could create anything.

According to Nakajima, he doesn’t refer to any particular garden, but to the notion of nature as such. For Japanese, nature is very important, and they still live in close coordination with it. When the jeweler started to think about a basis of his work, he was struck by the images that stay with him since childhood.

Traditionally, Nakajima uses hot enamel, made in the ancient Japanese technique of “Shippo”, in which Japanese classics of enamel art worked in the late XIX century. Nakajima was inspired by the style of the great Art Nouveau masters. In particular, Faberge, Tiffany, and Lalique. In his art the master jeweler uses gold, diamonds and precious stones. His works have a special nostalgic spirit, so rare in the products of modern masters.

Kunio Nakajima Jewellery Garden

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