Pierre Vive

Three emerald-cut pink tourmalines — one elevated at the centre in a hammered yellow gold claw mount with round brilliant diamond accents, two flanking stones set lower in polished yellow gold bezels at an angled tilt — all rising from a band carved entirely from a single piece of rose quartz. The band is the stone: translucent, blush pink, visibly crystalline in texture, wearing the natural fractures and inclusions of the material like grain in timber.

The hammered gold of the centre mount is rough-textured, almost geological — as if the tourmaline grew from a nugget of raw gold. This is a piece about the integrity of natural material: the quartz band has not been smoothed into invisibility, and the gold has not been polished into neutrality. Both materials are present as themselves.

Shown as concept render — about our design process