Wallpaper* Design Awards: Boghossian’s gem wizardry dazzles

Geneva-based excessive jewelry model Boghossian specialises in avant-garde, offbeat designs with an edgy magnificence, pioneering revolutionary processes such because the ‘kissing’ approach, the place one valuable stone is ready rigorously into one other. In different intricate strategies, supplies are imbued with a lightness, demonstrated notably within the Merveilles approach – as within the earrings under – the place valuable stones, positioned subsequent to one another, seem to magically float, with not one of the metallic holding them in place seen.

This engineering wizardry seems once more within the ‘Flame’ earrings. They’re created in a choice of sorbet shades, together with kunzite and chalcedony, and pink tourmaline and opal; right here, inexperienced jadeite is teased into sculptural curves that cradle vivid inexperienced tourmalines, creating playful items impressed by the rectilinear types of the Kufic alphabet.