COLOR IS THE BASIS OF ART
Art Jewelry Finder is an outgrowth of Vivid Gems International for the purpose of popularizing the use of fine art jewelry as a complement to high fashion for discerning clients. Retail buyers commonly face vast selections of jewelry that appear traditional and customary in conventional retail stores. Most center gemstones are often set in gold and encircling diamonds. For much of jewelry's modern-day history, emphasis was on diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds for high value specimens with almost total exclusion of any other naturally colored gems.
The explosion of interest in color gemstones in recent years provided the impetus for more creativity and artistry in the jewelry’s setting. Throughout the history all cultures, color is the foundation of art. The concept of jewelry as art and art being jewelry had its beginnings with well-known jewelry design houses like Cartier, Tiffany, Chanel, Van Cleef & Arpels and Bvlgari and others. However, over the last two decades, famous and prestigious jewelry designers like Hong Kong’s Wallace Chan and Taiwan’s Cindy Chao have taken jewelry as an artform to unprecedented international recognition. This art jewelry phenomenon needs no further justification than the solo exhibition given to the grandmaster at the Shanghai Museum under the name of “Wallace Chan: Half a Century” from June to October, 2024 displaying more than two hundred masterpieces. Chan’s art jewelry uses not only gold but also adds varying amounts of other attractive materials like color and sculptured titanium, ceramic, crystal or whatever comes to his mind that would add beauty, dimension and meaning to his creations.
This founding father of contemporary art jewelry has inspired many and especially Asian designers to follow in his footsteps to create a wider variety of art jewelry for an ever-increasing numbers of collectors and jewelry users. The mission of the Art Jewelry Finder platform is to facilitate the appreciation and collection of this form of jewelry so that it can become an indispensable part of high fashion for men and women with taste for the exceptional.
This type of jewelry is by definition limited in supply because of the incredible craftsmanship that is required. This website will offer for sale a selection of finished art jewelry by two specially chosen designers and one unique art jewelry production house in China. The special relationship between VGI and these jewelers allow VGI to act as an important co-producing partner as well as a practical interphase to deal with custom orders. In addition, these high-end jewelry items produced in China require more expert knowledge and execution in matters relating to duty, transportation and payment.