Larkspur & & Hawk’s creator and designer, Emily Satloff, likes antique precious jewelry as much as we do– and I do not state that gently, my beloveds.

Her newest release, Larkspur & & Hawk’s Luzia Collection, is a tribute to one specific classification of antique precious jewelry, a design and origin that makes most collectors of 18th century designs weak at the knees: antique Portuguese gems.

Using discreetly glittering, foiled-back gems is Larkspur & & Hawk’s visual signature. The strategy is extremely uncommon to discover in modern styles and it’s another indication of designer Satloff’s enthusiasm for mixing the distinct appeal of antique precious jewelry with modern-day style concepts to develop soft, romantic, entirely extraordinary brand-new designs.

Take a look at the rich, beautiful gems of the Luzia Collection– they radiance like daybreak suffusing early morning mist. Mild, inexorable, beautiful.

A passionate collector of 18th century Portuguese precious jewelry, Satloff called her newest collection Luzia, which suggests “gleaming light” in Portuguese. She is extremely clear that her objective is to reimagine, not recreate:

” Even if one wished to, it would be an useless job to try to recreate what some think to be the best examples of 18th century precious jewelry. Similar to much art from the past, its appeal and achievement stays in the hands of time, and initial, duration examples need to continue to be demanded and appreciated.

Nevertheless, as a designer and fan of history, it is believed provoking to admire specific elements of antique precious jewelry in my modern-day styles.”

If you require a tip of what antique Portuguese precious jewelry appears like, please click on this link to see my Pinterest board on the classification here. Spoiler alert: it’s unbelievable.

The Luzia Collection is sensational. Gently radiant foiled gems use a plethora of dreamy color mixes with foiled lemon quartz, foiled citrines, and foiled lavender moon quartz accentuated with diamonds, rainbow moonstones, sapphires and tsavorites for included vibrancy and shimmer.

The foiled lemon quartz looks like chrysoberyl, a preferred product in 18th century Portuguese gems, while the foiled citrine looks like Imperial topaz and the foiled lavender moon quartz stimulates opaline glass. All motivated by the past, however utilizing its style aspects to develop something fresh and brand-new.

The pendants are the hero pieces (specifically the exceptionally easy-to-love cushion oval pendant in the very first image above, which I’m passing away to own) however I in fact believe the earrings are going to be the most popular part of the collection.

Offered in a variety of styles from basic dangling drops to Queen Anne-inspired clusters to big, vibrant hoops, any set of the Luzia Collection earrings are predestined to end up being a preferred in their future owner’s precious jewelry rotation. The dreaminess of the foiled gems is incomparably beautiful and appears lit from within, flickering with soft fairy luminescence in any setting.

Simply take a look at these carefully rainbowlike pinks and purples. If they do not contact us to your inner rock-collecting goblin self, I do not understand what to reveal you.

I have actually been a fan of Larkspur & & Hawk’s work for a long very long time, however I have actually never ever composed an entire post about them previously. The Luzia Collection was so beautiful that I could not withstand! A worthwhile homage to a specific niche classification of antique precious jewelry that holds an unique location in much of our hearts.

What do you consider the Luzia Collection, my beloveds? Do the pendants contact us to you like they contact us to me, or is it the earrings that capture your eye?

For more Larkspur & & Hawk, please see my archive here, or their site here. For more antique Portuguese precious jewelry, clkick here.

Images c/o Larkspur & & Hawk.

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