Storrow’s 14K gold Fruit Salad Multi Charm Necklace with emeralds, christmatite, rhodochrosite, yellow sapphires, amethyst and diamond accents.
Storrow multi-charm necklace
Storrow
There is something joyful about fruits—also colorful, whimsical, playful and—throughout history—symbolic and meaningful. Whether realized in gemstones, gold, enamel or all three, designers ripen their imagination with different interpretations. Some have a tonque-in-cheek Carmen Miranda feeling, while others mine antiquity and look to literature and paintings of the past for inspiration. Many of them have dual meanings in the historical send but the modern versions all are about good fortune and optimism. Whatever the influences, expect to see more fruits in fine jewelry for spring/summer 2023 and beyond.
Gwen Barba’s play on “when life gives you lemons” —an 18K gold Lemon Pendant with vitreous glass enamel and yellow sapphires. Gwen also says that it is her pendant conotes “positivity, optimism and the purging of negativity…”
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Gwen Barba
Jenna Blake’s 18K yellow gold, ruby, and diamond Cherry Tree Charm pendant on chain. The red of ripe cherries are considered lucky and a sign of good fortune to come.
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Jenna Blake
Storrow offers a 14K gold single pendant with playful iteration of double cherries which in the world of social media, texting and emoji means you are in a committed relationship.
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Storrow
Joanna Dahdah’s 18K rose gold pomegranate pendant with rubies and brown diamonds. In Middle Eastern culture, the pomegranate is a symbol of fertility, abundance and marriage.
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Joanna Dahdah
Pamela Love creates her interpretation of the pomegranate in 14K gold in single sculptural recycled 14K yellow gold charm with deep red ruby seeds and vivid red recycled coral inlay which hangs from a delicate cable chain.
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Pamela Love
Silvia Furmanovich x Moye 18K yellow gold miniature marquetry earrings features the guava fruit and a parrot with diamonds and citrines on a cream background.
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Silvia Furmonovich
Lauren Harwell, the designer behind Harwell Godfrey reveals er devotion to the agave spirit by creating an 18K gold charm set featuring cheeky engravings. The pendant includes a juicy tsavorite, mother of pearl, diamond and peridot lime wedge, a rock crystal salt shaker filled with sparkling diamond ‘salt’ an agave medallion with a diamond heart cut-out border.
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Harwell Godfrey
Brent Neale’s witty take on what Alice would bring on a picnic in Wonderland. This 18K yellow gold, amethyst and emerald bunch of grapes is just one of the many treats that would go into the basket.
On a more serious note, grapes have been widely recognized throughout history, most notably associated with Dionysus/Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of wine, excess, and merriment. Butthey are also a symbol like other fruits of fertility and prosperity
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Brent Neale
Robinson Pelham’s 14K gold, pink ruby and tsavorite strawberry pendant is small but filled with symbolism—purity, abundance and perfect goodness.
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Robinson Pelham
Gwen Barba’s 18K yellow gold Orange Blossom pendant with glass enamel. “I chose this motif as oranges symbolize prosperity and luxury in Renaissance paintings. And, I have an orange tree in my backyard, so personally, they remind me of home.”
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Gwen Barba
Circa 1700’s 18K gold secret Mon Coeur Avec Le Votre Apple Locket, which translates into My Heart is with yours, is inscribed outside the locket. It is inspired by antique apple lockets that open from the top, reinvented into a modern-day treasure. The interior contains two apple seeds that form to make a heart set against a reflective surface that mirrors the motifs. It is a perfect piece for favorite keepsakes and is finished with a frame that Cohen says, “denotes the bonds we have with those with love.” After the goings on in The Garden Of Eden, much later on in Victorian times, apples began to be associated with love.
Secret Locket
Circa 1700
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