Rebel Jewelry Design, The Architect’s Ring

Three Diamond Ring with Filigree and Hand Engraving and a Story!

Three Jewelers Down, Would I Be the Fourth?

Has someone ever challenged you in your work and just pushed you to places you never went before? It happened to this Santa Barbara Jewelry Designer and this is the ring that came out of that crucible of challenge. This ring is a rebel!

A Renaissance Man Takes on the Jewelry Establishment

My client was an architect, had built his own house and his own boat! This guy knew from design! He wanted an engagement ring for his gorgeous lady love.

He had clear ideas on what he did and didn’t want in a jewelry design. The problem was that in the rules of jewelry design his design idea wasn’t supportable. That’s what the three jeweler’s he spoke to before me explained to him.

The Side View of “The Architect’s Ring”

Dreaming the Impossible Dream, Jewelry-Wise

I took on this crazy project because I liked him and thought I could figure out a way to give him what he wanted.

The rebel jeweler in me wanted to break some rules and make some jewels!

Worthy of a National Magazine Article

The story of how this rule breaking, unique engagement ring came to be made is in an article written about it in MJSA Journal “The Architect’s Ring.”

Here’s a titillating excerpt:

“Tomas had one strong dislike that she knew right away was going to be a problem. During the exploratory phase of the design process (in which Gold typically sketches ideas by hand), Tomas said he hated the kinds of long prongs used on most three-stone rings, which start at the base of the crown section of the ring and extend to the top of the gemstone.
He said the prongs reminded him of unwieldy architectural supports. What he really wanted was a filigree design in the setting that would be light, lacey, and capable of making the three diamonds look airborne, instead of trapped in what he perceived to be rigid and separate compartments.”

Read the whole story:  The Architect’s Ring

There are His Airy Floating Diamonds with the Lacey Look He Wanted

An Extremely Happy Ending

Happily I  found a way to break the rules and make the Architect’s ring. His fiance loved it. He loved it too and was mighty pleased that his idea took flight and landed in a gift of wearable love.

Did I say love too many times? Well I love this ring. Oops, I did it again! It’s because I’m so happy remembering being that challenged and being a rebel against what I thought couldn’t be done. Thanks to an architect and a challenge, we came up with this amazing ring.

Rebel Jeweler, Calla Gold