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| 14K Pink Gold Pendant Necklace with Tahitian Keishi Pearl & Pink Sapphire |
Cape Breton Island, located in Nova Scotia, Canada, holds within
it one of the area’s most talked about Cabot Trail.
trails:
The 185 mile
highway dips and winds through the island’s most beautiful scenery. Canada is also home to featured jewelry
designer Pierre-Yves Paquette.
Regardless of the style jewelry making is all about artistry. However, in my opinion, some classic jewelry
styles, like initial pendants, don’t really offer a visual example of that
artistry.
For me items such as these
seem more about commerce and the “in” thing than an expression of craftsmanship.
Paquette veers decidedly outside the realm of
convention. Time-honored techniques that
include keum-boo and mokume-gane provides his fine jewelry collections of
18-karat gold with exquisite, distinctive artistry. Every design from drop earrings with gray
Tahitian pearls to link bracelets is wonderfully minimal without stagnancy.
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| 18K Yellow Gold Ring with Tahitian Pearl and Orange Sapphires |
A finalist of France’s 2000
International Competition for Young Fashion Designers, Paquette has always
been inhabited by a restless creative energy.
“I am the type of person who likes movement and hates
monotony and repetition. I take great
pleasure in designing and creating all types of objects. I constantly search for innovative and
unconventional techniques.
I am deeply inspired by the nobility of precious
metals. Stark, modern architecture, with
its strong lines, influence my work.
I
take aspects of modern architecture and contemporary art to produce a line of
jewelry that is pure and simple yet marked with complexity.”
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| 18K Yellow and Grey Gold Bracelet with Orange Sapphires and Mokume-Gane Detail |
2014 Jewelry Trend Alert: Innovative
minimalist design is a key trend this year, and Paquette has that covered.
Paquette’s use of gray Tahitian pearls and 18-karat
gray gold highlights the year’s muted color theme.
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