Vintage silver jewelry signed Citlali

Vintage silver jewelry signed Citlali
The history of handcrafted jewelry made by the Mexican studio-workshop Citlali began in 1968 in Guadalajara. Its founder is a hereditary silversmith Francisco Sanchez Sahagun. The small family business not only survived the Mexican silver crisis of the 1970s, but also became widely known outside Guadalajara. This became possible thanks to the highly artistic, original and time-consuming designs that Francisco embodied in his jewelry.
Already in the mid-1980s, Citlali (the word means “Star”) began to appear at international jewelry exhibitions and boutiques in Europe. As a result, his collections recieved many prestigious design awards.
Since 2010, Francisco has been collaborating with the Madrid fashion house L’atelier de Minerva. Francisco Sanchez Sahagun now runs the family-owned company Citlali with his daughter Rosana Sánchez, a certified jewelry designer.

The Tree of Life for Maestro Sahagún is not just an image of the biblical “tree in the Garden of Eden”, but rather a philosophical concept, and a metaphor for the origin and relationship of life in an evolutionary sense. Noteworthy, all Tree of Life pendants are engraved differently. According to belief, he used to engrave the pendant right in front of the client, after talking with him a little. Thus, through the engraving the jeweler turned the piece of jewelry into an effective personalized amulet.

Vintage silver jewelry signed Citlali