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YOUNG JEWELRY DESIGNERS TO WATCH IN 2017

Every Year, The Jewellery Editor picks young and promising jewelry designers to watch in the coming 12 months. In a recent piece on the subject, Editor Maria Doulton has selected the designers she feels will break through in 2017.

 

One of them, the Swiss-German-Canadian Alina Abegg, “turns B-movie aliens, UFOs and crop circles into sleekly attractive jewels with a stylishly tongue-in-cheek irreverence”. Another notable young designer, Lebanese newcomer Gaelle Khouri, broke out with her new Soft Deconstruction collection last year, “which turns traditional concepts of jewelry design on their head with rings that snake over the hand and orbit the fingers and writhe around the fingers”.

 

Among the notable millennial jewelers is Max Danger, a prize-winning Danish designer who trained at London’s Royal College of Art. Danger “carves his miniature worlds in wax before casting them into precious metals and gems”. Danger is expected to launch a new collection of “thought-provoking jewels, including a ring featuring a robot bathing in a tub of oil”.

 

The list of young and promising London-based designers also includes Vicky Lew, which designs “edgy and finely crafted jewels”; Dalia Daou, who won Retail Jewellers’ UK 2016 Designer of Year. Daou jewels, according to the piece, “are fresh, bright and guided by a scientifically rigorous vision”; and Emily Richardson, whose “sweet and feminine” jewels have gained her favor with some big-time designers. Another London designer, Beau Han Xu, is now in the process of producing his Splash! Collection. Splash! includes hollow glass sculptures complete with stray droplets, with hundreds of crystal diamonds floating inside.

 

More names in the piece include: British jeweler Jessie V E, whose “delicate star sign rings have become a favorite with customers and celebs”; American jewelry house Foundrae, which “fuses mystic symbols with yesteryear charm”; the brand Retrouvai, which designs classic jewels with a modern twist; Armenian-born Mike Saatji, who won a prize at the Couture Show in Las Vegas last year for his “sensual chains and fluid sweeps of gold suspending diamonds like droplets of rain”; and finally, Greek designer Ioanna Souflia with her new Adoucissement collection to be launched in the spring.

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