Marissa Alperin

18k yellow gold ring with diamonds and 1ct aqua stone center.
$1,800.00

18k yellow gold pink tourmaline and diamond ring. $1,700.00
Platinum Diamond engagement/anniversary ring. 1.10ct total weight. VS2, G color.$6.500

18k yellow gold 3.5mm stone ring with 2 diamonds. $550

18k white gold large ruby and diamond flower ring. 1ct ruby center and .20ct diamond. 1800

I was recent emailed by a blog reader to check out Marissa Alperin after a great experience she had. I'm very happy she did.

Marissa's work is bright and fresh as well as clean and modern. She uses a wide range of stones in brilliant stand out colors. Great color combination with tourmalines and sapphires. She has some interesting designs and shapes. Some of the pieces have a very simplified Temple St Clair feeling. Over all I am partial more to her solitaire's and simplifed settings. Her multicolored bands a a bit much for me.

Over all nice work and affordable.

images from Marissa Alperin site
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Rony Tennenbaum

Rony Tennenbaum work is very clean and precise, not something I show very often on this site. I do have a tendency to show more organic and hand form pieces. I'm showing one ring in particular that really caught my attention. His Oxygen ring to me embodies the idea of love between to partners perfectly. The design of this ring is simple but the sentiment behind it is fantastic. One needs the other to be whole.

This ring is made with a half moon cut diamonds. The setting for this is really cool it has the illusion of being suspended.

Rony's main audience is the gay and lesbian market. I have to applaud him for this. I think it's commendable with all the converse right now of equality for all. Everyone has the right to be happy and be married to whom they love.


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Happy London Finds

Recently, I went for a whirlwind trip to London to see 2 wonderful friends, the Tate Modern and Depeche Mode. On a day's outing we stopped at a small market at the Wharf on London's Southbank, between Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridge near the Tate Modern. I happened upon the work of Mikala Djorup. Mikala is a Danish born designer whose work is quite modern. She creates very organic handmade settings that present a set stone in a unique way, some having an almost Dr Seuss feel. Her settings protrude up and out presenting the stone on a elegant pedestal. She has many pieces with cognac diamonds and gold. May favorite piece I sadly don't have a close up picture of, so you will have to get the idea from my drawing. It was a cognac diamond emerald cut just under a carat set in white gold or platinum in a 4 prong setting. It is a great example of the up and out setting I mentioned earlier. I liked her solitaire stone pieces more then her stacked tube pieces. But, this is just personal preference.

So, if you're on vacation and have the time or you're a Londoner who read this blog go check her out!

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Image are from djorup site and taken by me