TEFAF Maastricht opens strongly with many new jewelry

TEFAF Maastricht opened the first day of the preview of the invitation only on Thursday. It is too early to know the number of Fridays he attends, but based on the crowds of people in the showroom and the waiting list to enter the MECC Conference Center hours after the exhibition opened art, antiques and design, the numbers appear very strong. Not to mention that old jewelry traders were very busy and could not meet them.

The Higher Contemporary Jewelery Department has opened with several new names. Among them, Santi, a special jeweler in London, founded Krishna Chaudhry, 36, who is a family descendant and has long and attractive links with the gemstone industry in Jaipur, TEFAF for the first public art exhibition. Its pink booth reflects the Jaipur Stones Center, known as the pink city. Inside, he presented rare artifacts that were an inspiration for the twenty contemporary artistic jewelry or so that it creates every year – most of them with the historical gemstones it collects.

Chaudhry said he could not think about a better place to hold his first general exhibition.

“TEFAF has this beautiful community of plural enthusiasts and people who offer the best of the best pieces. Chaudri said:“ This is a lot about me. I was preparing the cabin and I was a little tired. So, I wandered, and got up update. I thought this is the perfect position for me and I am really excited to be here, because I think there are people who can understand what I really do. There is calm and there is appreciation. “

Another exhibitor for the first time is Margot McKini, the Australian jeweler who managed to find the most expensive gemstones and pearls in the world to produce large and bold jewels. The axis of its exhibition area is a green chandelier, a function made of Morano glass with colored flowers and nymphs in happy situations. Those on top of the fountain have wings. Near the bottom of the fountain there are nymphs inside the flowers, and one in the middle carries a series of pearls, a bracelet and a ring on its left hand. The fountain and chandelier were made by the vitreous artist, Venice Lucio Pobako.

Mckinney visited the Bubacco Studio in Murano, and “Fall in Love” with a shift green chandelier. When McKini received a letter to the exhibition at the Tefaf exhibition, she had an idea of ​​a fountain and a chandelier, and she and Bobaco created the decorative being.

“Pearls come from water and form Opal in the presence of water. So, I thought the water is what I needed.”

She was told by a Tefaf official there was no fountain in a position, but she did not deter her.

She said, “It is a nice thing that there is here.” “It has been proven to be a draw.”

Among the jewelry she presented in its first exhibition is the marina necklace, made from the Great Green Burrel, Cocamarin and Green Burls against the background of 25 pearls of the Australian Australian Sea of ​​the Australian. Al -Jawhara was inspired by the great coral barrier, as gemstones arranged to stimulate the colors of tropical water in the coral sea and the sea appearance is emphasized by the pearls, which were harvested over several years of the seas in the distant Australia region. The fifth generation gems of Paul Auto Caesar were cut in Idar Oberchen, Germany, a famous global center to cut skilled and artistic gemstones.

All Margot McKini pearls come from one pearl farmer, Aji Illiz and Yamilalurne, which is with a makini in the area of ​​its exhibition. She said, “This will be the first time that many have gathered here with pearl farms.”

It is not the first time that MCKINNEY has done in Tefaf, but this is the first time that it has been shown anywhere. “One of the greatest honors in my career was the call to show my work in the most important art exhibition in the world. It is a great privilege for me personally and a teacher in the history of the 141 -year -old MCKINEY family.”

Buccellati is not completely new on TEFAF. The brand of Italian jewelry that was previously displayed in TEFAF from 1992 to 2014. Maria Christina Boukilati said it could not be happier with the return of her family company. The brand, which is now owned by Buxury Goods Holding, Richemont, installed Nicolas Luchsiner a year ago as CEO. Maria Christina said it believes that it is important for the company to return to TEFAF and provide heritage pieces to show the historical importance of the company in addition to introducing new high jewelry elements for sale.

She said: “He understood that it was necessary to return and put ourselves in a way that dates back to our roots and displayed our heritage through high -level exhibitions such as Tefaf.”

The company also has new artistic things available from the Fraoy Group.