Rare, and Right at Home
Some gemstones barely turn up in fine jewelry at all, usually for the same reasons: scarce, difficult to cut, obscure enough that most designers glance once and reach for something safer. Sphene, kyanite, apatite, tsavorite, rubellite. These are gemstones a seasoned collector might be seeing for the first time. Which is the whole appeal. Whatever makes everyone else look away is what draws us in.
So gemstones that usually live on collectors' wish lists arrive here as designs made to be worn. Sphene with more glow than a diamond. Apatite in a teal that verges on electric. Tsavorite greener than any emerald, rubellite deep in the reds and pinks, kyanite drifting from pale to saturated blue. They appear across every category and every cut we work, faceted and cabochon, single gemstones and beaded strands, in necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings and pendants. Some in our signature hand-hammered 24K gold, others in Couture Silver collection, the same rare finds carried in two different palettes. Every design is one-of-a-kind, because a gemstone like this comes along once. "Never Ordinary" is the premise, and rarity this deliberate is where it shows most.
Eye of the Beholder
Gurhan Orhan chooses every one of these gemstones himself, the way he always has. He looks past the familiar names for something rarer: a depth of color, an unusual fire, a character that won't sit still once it's set. What moves him is the gemstone itself, and he has to see it in person to know.
Which is why the gemstone usually comes first. Something with this much presence tends to suggest what it wants to become, and more often than not the design simply follows, into warm, pure gold one time, into the cool tone of silver the next. And since each one begins with a unique gemstone, no two designs are alike. Once a sphene or a rubellite of real character is set, the design around it exists only that once. For anyone drawn to the gemstones the rest of the world overlooks, that's the real luxury here: what you find, you'll find almost nowhere else.