Prepare to be amazed at some extraordinary jewellery designs at unimaginable prices that will go on display in Boodles on Grafton Street in Dublin 2 in September.
Designers were given complete artistic and financial freedom to make a collection of 14 unique pieces, none of which will be reproduced, to celebrate the company's 210th birthday. Taking the natural world as its theme, each piece celebrates in extraordinary detail and construction the flight and movement of birds, animals or stars. One item, a briolette of bees in flight, took 60 hours in design terms and months to make. Jewels used include Brazilian aquamarines, yellow diamonds, rare Tahitian pearls, and topazes from Madagascar. But probably the most amazing one of all is the mandarin garnet, a glinting, fiery red/orange stone used in a sensational necklace of yellow gold. The collection will form one of the attractions at the newly established Jewellery Week in London on June 11th-15th. See www.londonjewelleryweek.co.uk.