The Celestial Collection
In the West and in the East, in spirituality and in the lab, the cosmos is within us.
Here, Cartier and Van Cleef, Edmond Halley and Jodie Foster (yes, Jodie Foster) come together as we remember: "We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself".
So come and star gaze. Watch as the cosmos reaches down to us and reemerges transformed into precious adornments, each one a story about our place in that awesome and humbling night sky. Enjoy the finale of Season 1 of the Starstuff Stories.
Enjoy the Celestial Collection.
The Gold Collection
"Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in this world, has also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise", said Christopher Columbus in a letter to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. Let us follow Columbus, and others who came after him, deep into a blue-green world of legend and half-forgotten gods.
But gold meant very different things to very different people: to the Europeans, what was scarce was valuable, gold was scarce, so gold was valuable. But to the Mesoamericans, what was scarce was meaningful; gold was scarce; so gold was meaningful.
The Gold Collection is a search for meaning. The sun god follows, around the circle of the universe, the eternal serpent’s path through the cosmos. In this ancient world, meanings abound…
The Platinum Collection
Cartier, Fabergé, Tiffany & Co; Spanish Monarchs, Napoleon Bonaparte, and British Colonies in southern Africa; and galaxy-sized fireworks displays in deep space... The first collection in "The Starstuff Stories" tells the tale of how an unremarkable discovery in a river in Colombia, not only inspired some of the most extraordinary jewellery-making in the last 150 years, but even led to profound questions about the universe itself...
The astronomer Carl Sagan famously said “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself”.
Is jewellery, perhaps, one of the most elegant expressions of this knowing, of Sagan's 'cosmic introspection'?
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