2023 AWARDS HIGH COMMENDED
EVERYDAY DIAMONDS
HIGH COMMENDED
Category: Every Diamonds
Designer: Natalie Alegria
Company: Creations Jewellers Canberra
Retail Value: $8300
Inspired by Creations Lagoon collection, this diamond ring is designed to be worn and enjoyed for everyday wear.
The gold layered design, accented by pave set diamonds and a satin bead blast and polished finish combination, features the unsung hero of fancy cut diamonds, the marquise.
The central Marquise cut diamond floats down the gold lagoon with glistening diamonds at its shore, to be enjoyed and to endure for all that life brings day to day.
Total diamond weight = 0.52ct
1 x marquise cut 0.35ct, F, SI2
24 x total weight 0.17ct, round brilliant cut, D-F colour, VS2 – SI1
DIAMONDS FOR MEN
HIGH COMMENDED
Category: Diamonds For Men
Designer: Cassandra Nitschke
Company: Bell And Brunt Jewellers
Retail Value: $35,500
A handcrafted 18ct white gold diamonds set Men’s jacket pin designed to be worn as a pocket square. Inspired by the Art Deco style, the pocket square features a combination of natural white princess, tapered baguette, baguette and round brilliant cut diamonds creating a dazzling display for evening wear.
Diamonds 80 x total diamond weight = 4.313ct, mixed fancy shaped diamonds, F-G colour, VS-SI2
RED CARPET
HIGH COMMENDED
Category: Red Carpet
Designer: Berj Ohanessian
Company: Berjani Jewellers
Retail Value: $76,120
A pair of handcrafted 18ct white gold 2 claw set multi diamond set earrings, each stalk is individually articulated to create a sense of natural movement. Inspired by the flower of the Australian native Callistemon or Bottle Brush.
Total Diamond weight = 12.51ct round brilliant cut F colour, VS, Excellent make
DESIGN FOR DIAMONDS
HIGH COMMENDED
Category: Design For Diamonds
Designer: Louis Dauxais
Company: Matthew Ely Jewellery
Estimated Retail Value: $9,300,000 If The Design Was To Be Made
A hand rendered sketch design finished in a gouache paint of the conceptual design entitled LE RUBAN D’OR. The design features a handmade fully articulated 18ct white gold setting adorned with a central fancy vivid yellow square radiant cut diamond and 40 fancy yellow Asscher cut diamonds running around the collar section. An additional 170 Asscher cut diamonds in an ombre of white to fancy orange colour run down the draped tie sections at the front of the collier.
FANCY COLOURED DIAMONDS
HIGH COMMENDED
Category: Solitaire Diamonds
Designer: Travis Trewarne
Company: Trewarne Fine Diamonds
Retail Value: $11,000
An 18ct rose gold diamond set ring featuring a rare Argyle origin natural fancy intense pink-orange centre pear shaped diamond set into a wide open ellipse of gold set with curved rows of natural pink diamonds to the inside and outside faces. The central diamond is symbolic of an orange sun setting over the Australian landscape of sunburnt hilltops in a rose pink sky. The design is an interpretation of nature’s finest work in a narrative of the bond we have with the earth.
Diamonds: 1 x 0.52ct, pear shape, Argyle fancy intense Orange Pink colour, P1 clarity 134 x total weight 0.50ct round brilliant cut, Argyle natural pink diamonds, 4-5P – 7PP.
