the goldsmith's daughter: 2010

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

van cleef and arpels high jewellery

Van Cleef and Arpels

*Klick klick klick* (above)

Monday, December 27, 2010

god morning

I quote:

"Flirty & feminine butterfly diamond earrings set in 14 karat white gold with .50 carats total weight diamonds. Approx 1 inch in length."

Photo...

Friday, December 24, 2010

merry christmas ?

Ave Maria

Alan P. Fulton

Greek children singing christmas carols in the 1950s.

Evangelatos Heart. Celebrate with love.

Wish you all an especially nice day whether you celebrate christmas out of tradition, or you are a strong believer or maybe belong to another religion. =)

Photos:Here, here and here.

Plus the Evangelatos FB page

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

snow white

A Fall/Winter piece I made a while ago. In the picture the stones are kinda yellowish but they are really white as snow inreality. Goes real fine with black and all yellow-brown-beigeish colours.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The backside of a brooch that my father (made) and gave to my mother. The inscription has gotten to my head. It says "doron" in greek which means gift... Why would he write that? It's quite obvious that it is a gift..(right?).. on other pieces he gave her there are engravings too, most of whom make Do make (some kind) of sense... =P

'Night!

Photo: ME

Monday, December 20, 2010

monday night

Gurgesnus...

Friday, December 17, 2010

mind this

On my desk.

thinking about a spring collection...

Part of my vision board for spring, there is so much, this is just a tiny fraction of it. And Im seriously troubled I don't know what track or "line" to follow... This below is the more womanly-romantic-art nouveauish track... Just thinking about, it still not sure... well well enjoy these pics till the next update!

GEROCHRISTO

GEROCHRISTO

DAMASKOS

MUCHA POETRY

EVANGELATOS

Picture courtesy:

1: ME,

2 & 3 Gerochristo blog

4 BBC

6 Athenas Treasures FB page

7 Alphones Mucha

8 Evangelatos FB page

9 Vogue Paris, Terry Richardson

10 Evangelatos FB page

Monday, December 13, 2010

workkkk

Working on a necklace in the studio

Saturday, December 4, 2010

saturday night

Stevie B. ring

Thursday, December 2, 2010

queen of the jewellery wearers

"I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband...? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed," -Elizabeth Taylor

This woman has worn and owned some of the worlds most expensive jewels, are we jealous? No no... No, really NO.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

pigeon blood my friends

Rubies

Freshly mined rubies

A miner shows of his latest find,

all finds are kept close at hand.

The finest hue of rubies go under the name of pigeon blood.

One of my absolute favourite gems is the ruby with its red fiery (or pinkish) colour. And did you know that transparent, flawless rubies exceed all other gems in value? Even diamonds, execpt so called fancy diamonds. The reason? Transparent rubies of larger sizes are rarer than diamonds.

The poor ruby must be transparent to posses gem value other rubies like opaque or semi-opaque have very little value compared to other gems.

Photos: Richard W. Hughes

Monday, November 29, 2010

evangelatos studio

Butterfly

Found this cool Brooch in the Evangelatos studio back in august. Pretty darn different and pretty darn cool with a pretty pretty price.

Photo: Me, Brooch: Evangelatos

Sunday, November 28, 2010

crown jewels of iran

I have wanted to show you this picture for so long, like four months but I haven't come of my feet to post it till now. So here you go a bowl made of gold and rubies (!!!!) ...yum ...yum.. who would not wanna lay their hands on that!? It's so beautiful, goregeous, and many other adoring words would discribe it well however what would the use of such a thing be? The craftsman who made it was obviously trés skillfull and just out of respect I wouldn't dare to even touch it if it was in my posession (or within my reach;)