Working to bring jewelers ethical choices through education and promotion, now Ethical Metalsmiths has pioneered Fair Mined Gold to the US market! Our director has just come from a visit to the mine and our Sourcing Consortium is in full swing! Please consider your jewelry gift giving choice as a powerful way to support responsible [...]
Every year this client commissions a new anniversary ring, and this is the 11th! The theme was open this year- but a larger showy ring was preferred. The result is a hand fabricated 18k gold and sterling wrap-around wing ring with a natural Silvermist Diamond TM from Australia, coiled in the darkened silver... for one [...]
This exquisite gossular garnet, full of light and brilliance, inspired an open and airy setting. Suspended by the setting, the bright refraction of the stone is set off by the white diamonds and hammered sterling silver surround. This lucky client at Stuart Benjamin & Co was very pleased with her new Alexandra Hart pendant! View [...]
InStore Magazine covers the new Quill Collection with Silvermist Diamonds TM in the November issue "Alternative Metals" section. Thank you Robert Weldon for the great shots, and Ralf Kircher for the inclusion! ALEXANDRA HART / ALEXANDRA HART What alternative metals do you enjoy working with and why? As a designer and metalsmith, I really enjoy [...]
More behind the scenes of the fashion shoot at Otay Lakes: after hair and makeup at 6am, loading the boats by 8 and dressing Model Candice Edwin at the lakeside, out they went onto the lake! A day of nature, creativity and collaboration. Makeup by Cristiam Alfonso, hair by Melina Aguirre, photography by An.Drew Fauxtography, all part of Nick Mansfield's creative [...]
Exciting project for a jewelry connoisseur: This client came to me with a large emerald cut rutilated quartz, some old single cut diamonds, and an assortment of gold for scrap. She wanted a showy piece which would incorporate the heavily textured crinkle style with her stones on a grand ring... this is what we came [...]
Upcycle your Jewelry: This was a fun and simple way to update this client's valuable jewelry into something new and hip- she had two antique rings which were neither the size nor style she would wear, so her idea was to make the center stones into fun stud earrings!
Another great Fashion shoot this week! This time in NYC with Creative Director, Sasha Leibowitz, who shot my work a few years ago for Karen Magazine in Sydney Australia. This time she requested these pieces:
Putting together a fashion shoot is a long ordeal, first there's Hair and Makeup at 6am, loading the boats by 8 and preparations for the shoot out at Otay Lakes. Model Candice Edwin, Makeup by Cristiam Alfonso, Hair by Melina Aguirre, Photography by An.Drew Fauxtography, all part of Nick Mansfield's local creative production team. It [...]
I met with Blythe Barton from Jean Isaac's Dance Company for a fitting of the Sculpture to Wear- she will choreograph movements inspired by this restrictive yet animated sculptural work for a video shoot in November. Here's just a peek as she swept past the camera... you will have to stay tuned for the finished [...]
