RAPAPORT... Drawing upon her background in fine arts and her appreciation of art, Ariane Zurcher has added the Transitions line to her eponymous jewelry collection. Working out of a studio in New York City, Zurcher creates designs for women with busy lifestyles. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Zurcher is also a master jeweler, sketching her designs and then crafting her own wax or metal models, enjoying the process of making jewelry as much as designing it.
The color brown — in its many hues — has been front and center on the runways recently and now the Dalumi Group has introduced its new Brown collection. The new pieces highlight the beauty of natural brown diamonds paired with white diamonds in extra-wide, beveled 18-karat gold rings, providing consumers with style at an affordable price.
Painter and jewelry artist Yogendra Sethi recently celebrated his art and jewelry with an exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York City. Sethi chooses to express his artistic talents in watercolors, acrylics and gemstones. His watercolor landscape paintings depict areas in California where he has lived. The prismatic effects Sethi achieves in his contemporary acrylic paintings are inspired by the gemstones he has worked with over the years. Sethi’s 12-piece signature collection of one-of-a-kind jewels showcased at the exhibit features colored diamonds and gemstones, in bold designs inspired by nature.
Designer and bench jeweler Neda Behnam has founded Diamonds for a CureTM. Inspired by her experience as a breast cancer survivor, Behnam launched the line with the philosophy that like diamonds, life is precious. The company donates a percentage of sales from its collections to the organization Stand Up To CancerTM. Behnam moved from Iran to New York City when she was 11 years old and soon developed a passion for the jewelry arts. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and apprenticed with a SoHo-based designer, learning the ancient art of granulation. She later began dealing loose stones and creating reproduction vintage jewelry. Behnam now combines her design sense and 25 years of jewelry- making experience in her new venture.
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