ALAYA BAR
With a background in costume design, a keen eye for detail, and a passion for materials, contrasts, and colors, Ayala Bar designs jewelry which will be an extension of the wearer’s personality. To her, jewelry design is a creative transformation of ordinary occurrences into memorable and unique works of art.
She challenges the boundaries of traditional jewelry design, as her work crosses disciplines of fine art, textile, and fashion design. The designs in the Ayala Bar Jewelry Collection blend natural elements, glass beads, mineral stones, textiles, and Swarovski crystals on assorted metals to create a rich mosaic, resulting in intricate limited-edition pieces.
Since the 1980s, Ayala Bar has consistently produced designs that are innovative yet timeless, bold yet feminine, with an international appeal.
ANNE-MARIE CHAGNON
A multidisciplinary artist endowed with a bountiful imagination, Anne-Marie Chagnon explores materials instinctively. She invents, shapes, and sculpts exclusive pieces that are as prevailing as they are timeless. Her conviction: Being your true self is remarkable. Her creations convey that energy, which also emanates strongly from the women who wear them.
For 30 years, the passion for creating new collections annually continues to blossom vibrantly. Anne-Marie Chagnon jewelry, unique, and unparalleled, is designed and crafted at the Montreal studio and is available across five continents. By placing the quest for authenticity at the heart of her work, she has succeeded in creating a distinctive signature—local yet internationally renowned.
MICHAEL MICHAUD
The Michael Michaud Jewelry Collection is a world-renowned collection of botanical jewelry. Capturing the beauty and exquisite detail of the natural world, Michael Michaud uses soft patinas on bronze accented with pearls, beads, coral, and stones. His exacting attention to detail yields true-to-nature botanical works.
Michael’s unique jewelry is made by creating molds directly from botanical elements in a process similar to that of lost-wax casting. While traditional lost-wax casting begins with a hand-carved model of wax, Michael uses an actual leaf, branch, or flower in place of the wax model. A mold is then created around the botanical element, and, as it is heated, the plant matter burns away and leaves behind a beautifully detailed mold of itself.
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DAWN PATERSON
“Inspired by travelling to different countries and absorbing the beauty and the architecture found there, as well as the surrounding nature, my hands find the urge to create one-of-a-kind, wearable artistic designs that unfold as I create them in my Pure Silver Collection,” says jewelry designer Dawn Paterson.
Dawn apprenticed with Pepe Ceroblanco, designer jeweller, and Juan Nieto, fashion designer, in San Miguel, Mexico, and worked alongside numerous “joyeros” in Guanajuato, Cozumel, Zihuatanejo, and Puerto Vallarta. She also studied mosaic-art techniques with Martin Brown, mosaic artist, in Barcelona, Spain.
“My work is inspired by wrought-iron gateways and window grates; sculpted mosaic adornments and colourful hillside dwellings; narrow colonial passageways; swirling oceans of multi-coloured blue and green waters; magnificent basilicas surrounded by lush jardins filled with songbirds; architecture of ancient times; ruins of the Greeks and the Mayans; and the multitude of colours and textures creatively fabricated into works of ancestral art.”
Each of Dawn’s one-of-a-kind designs is made from .999% Canadian silver, resulting in a brighter, lightweight density of the highest purity.
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