From idea to modeling

How do we start to conceive a jewel? The first thing to observe, in nature you can find such different shapes and colors and with so many nuances that we could not include them all in the same collection, so the first thing is to think about the most appropriate forms to be transferred to heavy metal. For example, a butterfly, so fragile and light, we must take good care of the details because once it is materialized in silver, it can lose that delicacy if, for example, we make it solid, instead of openwork and with colored enamel, simulating its wings.

In the folium collection, based on leaves, we look at a plant that we had on the terrace of the workshop, where every day the sun bathed it and shone, we always looked at having coffee for breakfast, it was then that we decided to create a wearable set but at the same time powerful, although the nuance came later, we first thought of making the polished piece to recreate the glowing effect of our terrace.

The first thing you need is the original mold from which the rest of the pieces will start, you have to work it in wax, like a sculptor, but with much smaller tools. The truth is that the molding of the wax is the most important step and that will define how the piece will be. That is why the skills of the goldsmith to create the details and nuances in the wax are crucial.

Once the mold is made in wax, we can transfer it to metal, then the bolts are added if they are earrings or the bagas if they are sticky, on the back of the pieces, and once the more mechanical process is finished, we must consider finish. Although we initially thought of leaving it polished, when we tried the sand shading technique, it turned out to be a piece with much more relief and depths, just like our original sheet. We gave the final point in the profile, it was polished to enhance the shape and that radiance we were looking for. I think we got it, plus this piece helped inspire the rest of the ensemble.