Favourite Stones

The Stones I Love

I'm not interested in stones because they're expensive. I'm interested in stones because they're alive — because each one is an unrepeatable event that took millions of years to happen.

Charming Imperfections

"Inclusions, unevenness, and irregularity are not defects — they're the soul."

An inclusion is a geological autobiography — a fingerprint of the exact conditions that created a stone millions of years ago. I actively seek out gems with character.

The Internal World of Sapphires

Silk, milky growth bands, particle clouds, asterism — what an unheated sapphire carries inside it.

Garnet (Andradite)

Horsetail Demantoid

Chrysotile fibre inclusions prized as a mark of Russian origin and natural authenticity.

Jardin Emeralds

The "garden" of inclusions so expected that a perfectly clean emerald raises suspicion.

Bi-Colour Tourmaline

Bi-Colour Tourmaline

Watermelon, green-to-pink, teal-to-red — crystals that record changing chemistry as they grew. Every zone a different moment in geological time.

Corundum · Fancy & Multicolour

Party & Multicolour Sapphires

Teal, bicolour, colour-zoned, and the rare Winza hybrids that are simultaneously ruby and sapphire.

Hydrated Silica

Black opals from Lightning Ridge. Play-of-colour that no faceted stone can rival. Every one unrepeatable.

The Classics

"Some stones earned their reputation for good reason."

These six have been valued for millennia, and I love working with each — especially when I can find examples that surprise.

Virtually every colour — peach, pink, golden, green, violet, and the extraordinary padparadscha.

Rarer than diamond, with internal fluorescence that makes the red glow from within.

The stone that sat in European crowns for centuries disguised as ruby. Every colour. Always untreated.

The stone that taught the world character matters more than perfection.

The hardest substance on earth — and in champagne and fancy colours, something far more interesting than its reputation.

Green in daylight. Red by candlelight. The only stone whose identity changes with the light source.

The Misunderstood

"Each one extraordinary, but they haven't received the recognition they deserve."

Name confusion, marketing neglect, or simple unfamiliarity. That's an opportunity for anyone willing to look beyond the obvious.

Elbaite · Boron Silicate

Green, pink, blue, neon Paraíba — no mineral species produces more colour. The most chromatic gemstone on earth.

The Garnet Family

Not just red. Six species spanning orange, green, raspberry, colour-change — and the most brilliant stone in this collection.

Aluminium Silicate

Imperial topaz in deep orange-pink. Blue topaz in glacial clarity. A stone misread as simple that is anything but.

Not cubic zirconia. One of Earth's oldest minerals with fire that rivals diamond.

Found in a single location on Earth. Trichroic: blue, violet, burgundy shifting with angle.

Forget pale and boring. A fine aquamarine is the colour of glacial ice.

Blazing mandarin orange that stops conversations.

Competes with emerald on colour, demolishes it on brilliance and durability.

Raspberry-to-purple with a velvety warmth. The most wearable garnet.

The king of garnets. Green with fire that exceeds diamond.

Dispersion of 0.051 surpasses diamond. Throws rainbows from every facet.

Dispersion nearly four times diamond's. Almost psychedelic in good light.

One of Earth's rarest gems. Blue-green trichroism.

Cranberry-to-rose newcomer. Faceted stones above a carat are genuinely unusual.

Quartz Classics

Amethyst, citrine, ametrine — accessible beauty at heroic scales.

Drawn to a particular stone?

Tell me which gem speaks to you and I'll design something worthy of it.

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