The Anna Khouri Diamond Phillipa Earpiece on a model featuring a 3.20-carat diamond
The world’s largest and most prestigious luxury and fashion companies spend millions of dollars and hire teams of people to try to position their brands within the intersection of art, fashion, celebrity and luxury. Independent high jewelry artist, Ana Khouri, seems to have a knack of doing this and making it look easy.
At any given time Khouri’s sculptural, gem-centric and light infused jewels may appear on international red carpets, in museum exhibitions or selling exhibitions at major auction houses.
Khouri and her latest high jewelry creations and objects will be among six jewelers appearing at the TEFAF New York fine art, antiques and design fair being held May 9 – 13, with a VIP preview May 8 at the Park Avenue Armory.
This year’s edition of the annual fair will have 91 galleries and contemporary artists from 13 countries and four continents. While many of the works will be representative of the 20th and 21st century there will be several artworks and artifacts that span all of civilization.
The Ana Khouri “Raw Necklace” with a 21-carat diamond
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Among the artistic creations Khouri will have on display is the “Raw Necklace” crafted in rough-textured 18k yellow gold and centered with a 21-carat diamond balanced on the bottom of the ring of gold. Another jewel that will be on view is a delicate 18k white gold earring paved with diamonds and completed with a dangling 3.20-carat diamond.
Many of the jewelers at TEFAF New York also exhibited at the TEFAF Maastricht fair held in March. They will be bringing many of the same jewels to the New York fair with some new surprises.
The Hemmerle bangle crafted from spessartine garnets, knitted almandine, stainless steel, bronze and … More
Hemmerle is a mainstay at TEFAF in Maastricht and New York and will be providing a hands-on experience of many of its new creations. Among them is a one-of-a-kind bangle with spessartine garnets, knitted almandine on stainless steel, bronze, white gold. The German high jewelry maker known for its craftmanship revived a 19th-century Austrian knitting technique using delicate almandine garnet beads handknitted with silk threads to form an intricate, flexible structure that embraces the wrist. The ends of the bangle are adorned with spessartine garnets.
The Ann Hu Cleopatra Necklace
Taiwanese American high jewelry artist, Anna Hu, will be bringing many of the same pieces she exhibited at the Maastricht fair, led by jewels from her Cleopatra Collection. This includes The Cleopatra Necklace, a long neck ornament with twisting strings of red spinel and white diamonds. The beads connect to a yellow diamond encrusted serpent topped with rows of green sapphires. The serpent’s tongue is fashioned as another long row of spinel beads. The complex piece consists of more than 370 carats of colored gems and diamonds.
Cartier, diamond lavalliere, circa 1908, in a Hancocks & Co. box on offer from FD Gallery
The Upper East Side jewelry gallery, FD Gallery, owned and operated by Fiona Druckenmiller, will present a combination of antique pieces from some of the most iconic and historic jewelry houses along with contemporary high jewelry pieces. One item is a vintage Cartier diamond lavalliere dating to 1908 in a Hancocks & Co. box.
A diamond and sapphire ring by contemporary jewelry house, SABBA, on offer from FD Gallery
Another piece is from SABBA, a Paris-based contemporary high jewelry house founded by Alessandro Sabbatini. It’s a sapphire ring centered with a diamond mounted in titanium from his latest collection. SABBA jewels are sold exclusively through FD Gallery. Sabbatini will attend the fair.
Didier and Martine Haspeslagh, owners of the Didier Ltd. London gallery, specialize in jewels created by modern artists, which have been acquired from the secondary art market. They are longtime attendees of TEFAF Maastricht and New York and have seen their collection niche grow in multiples because of their knowledge and dedication to this genre of jewelry collecting.
A brooch by artist Georges Braque circa 1962/1963, on offer from Didier Ltd.
Among the pieces in their gallery is a unique brooch by Georges Braque, a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. The birdlike jewel is in 18k textured yellow gold that resembles the sand he adds to his paint, further embellished with enameled light blue rods set with tiny diamonds, circa 1962/1963. Braque (1882 – 1963) started designing jeweler in the last two years of his life as his health declined and he was no longer able to paint, “but the passion to create art was not dimmed,” the couple said.
“Kissing” Colombian emerald and diamond earrings by Boghossian, a classic design from the high … More
Boghossian, a high jewelry house based in Geneva, is a family-owned firm with Armenian heritage that is historically known for dealing in exceptional gemstones. The firm traveled along the Silk Road plying its trade before settling in Europe. In the late 2000s it established a high jewelry brand in Geneva, creating cultural “East meets West” design motifs based on new technology and historic fine craftsmanship. It specialized in enhancing the gems in its jewels by minimizing the amount of gold used. The high jewelry house has made several appearances at TEFAF New York and Maastricht.
