Do you love Gothic art too? We do, and we enjoy reinterpreting it in jewelry. To show you how, we are taking you inside Reims Cathedral, where French kings were crowned for centuries, to stand before the great rose window at the entrance.
Looking Up
Inside a Gothic cathedral, the gesture is instinctive: you look up. The architecture itself asks for it, with its soaring vaults, walls lightened by stained glass and, above the portal, the rose window. In Reims, when the rays of the sun pass through it, they fill the interior with a magical light: the colored glass does not merely decorate the space, it transforms it.
A rose window is a large circular window: the stone tracery that holds the glass starts at the center and opens outward in rays, like the petals of a flower. In Gothic cathedrals, stained glass does more than let light in: it filters it and turns it into color, a color that changes with the hours of the day.
This is where we found our inspiration.
From Stained Glass to Gemstones
Every shade of the rose window found a stone to tell its story.
- Morganite: the pink variety of beryl, for the delicate pink.
- Tourmaline: a family of stones with a very wide range of colors; here it brings the deep, ancient pink.
- Peridot: the gemstone that exists only in green, for the pastel green.
- Yellow beryl: from the same family as morganite, it adds a gentle yellow.
- Sapphire: not only blue, it comes in many colors; here it is the violet.
The colors chase one another, bold and delicate, within a sacred geometry: the stones radiate outward like the petals of a rose window, around a luminous heart.
If tourmalines intrigue you, discover our page dedicated to Paraiba tourmalines, or the story of Tanzanite, another stone whose color hovers between blue and violet.
The Centerpiece of the Necklace
This is a dominant trait of our creations: starting from an idea, an architecture or a work of art, and translating it into color and geometry. In the sketch shown in the video, the centerpiece of the necklace is a true source of light, a point it is hard to look away from. The necklace is designed together with earrings in the same color palette, so that the story continues from neck to earlobe.
From Sketch to Jewel
Today the necklace is still a drawing, with the stones laid out on the page. We are now creating it and we will show you each step: follow us on Instagram to see this jewel finally come to life.
Do you have a place, an artwork or an architectural detail that moves you? Tell us about it: inspirations like this are how our custom-made jewellery is born.
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