Larkspur & Hawk’s Luzia impressed by vintage Portuguese jewels

Larkspur & Hawk’s founder and designer, Emily Satloff, loves vintage jewellery as a lot as we do – and I don’t say that frivolously, my darlings.

Her newest launch, Larkspur & Hawk‘s Luzia Assortment, is an homage to 1 specific class of vintage jewellery, a mode and origin that makes most collectors of 18th century kinds weak on the knees: vintage Portuguese jewels.

The usage of subtly shimmering, foiled-back gems is Larkspur & Hawk’s aesthetic signature. The method could be very uncommon to search out in up to date designs and it’s one other signal of designer Satloff’s ardour for mixing the distinctive great thing about vintage jewellery with fashionable design ideas to create smooth, romantic, totally unforgettable new kinds.

Take a look at the luxurious, pretty gems of the Luzia Assortment – they glow like dawn suffusing morning mist. Light, inexorable, beautiful.

An avid collector of 18th century Portuguese jewellery, Satloff named her newest assortment Luzia, which suggests “glowing mild” in Portuguese. She could be very clear that her purpose is to reimagine, not reproduce:

“Even when one needed to, it could be a futile process to try to recreate what some consider to be the best examples of 18th century jewellery. As with a lot artwork from the previous, its magnificence and greatness stays within the palms of time, and unique, interval examples ought to proceed to be wanted and admired.

Nonetheless, as a designer and lover of historical past, it’s thought frightening to pay homage to sure elements of vintage jewellery in my fashionable designs.”

When you want a reminder of what vintage Portuguese jewellery seems like, please click on right here to see my Pinterest board on the class right here. Spoiler alert: it’s unbelievable.

The Luzia Assortment is beautiful. Softly glowing foiled gems supply a mess of dreamy colour combos with foiled lemon quartz, foiled citrines, and foiled lavender moon quartz accented with diamonds, rainbow moonstones, sapphires and tsavorites for added vibrancy and sparkle.

The foiled lemon quartz resembles chrysoberyl, a favourite materials in 18th century Portuguese jewels, whereas the foiled citrine resembles Imperial topaz and the foiled lavender moon quartz evokes opaline glass. All impressed by the previous, however utilizing its design parts to create one thing contemporary and new.

The necklaces are the hero items (particularly the extraordinarily easy-to-love cushion oval necklace within the first picture above, which I’m dying to personal) however I really assume the earrings are going to be the most well-liked a part of the gathering.

Obtainable in quite a lot of designs from easy dangling drops to Queen Anne-inspired clusters to massive, colourful hoops, any pair of the Luzia Assortment earrings are destined to grow to be a favourite of their future proprietor’s jewellery rotation. The dreaminess of the foiled gems is incomparably pretty and seems lit from inside, flickering with smooth fairy luminescence in any setting.

Simply have a look at these gently iridescent pinks and purples. In the event that they don’t name to your internal rock-collecting goblin self, I don’t know what to point out you.

I’ve been a fan of Larkspur & Hawk’s work for an extended very long time, however I’ve by no means written an entire weblog publish about them till now. The Luzia Assortment was simply so beautiful that I couldn’t resist! A worthy tribute to a distinct segment class of vintage jewellery that holds a particular place in a lot of our hearts.

What do you consider the Luzia Assortment, my darlings? Do the necklaces name to you want they name to me, or is it the earrings that catch your eye?

For extra Larkspur & Hawk, please see my archive right here, or their website here. For extra antique Portuguese jewelry, clkick here.

Pictures c/o Larkspur & Hawk.

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