Mission
The new online platform is an outgrowth of Vivid Gems International for the purpose of popularizing the use of fine art jewelry to compliment high fashion for discerning clients. Most retail buyers commonly face vast selections of jewelry that would appear traditional and customary. Most center gemstones are often set with varieties of gold and encircling diamonds.
The concept of seeing 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 awards. Universal recognition of this art jewelry phenomenon needs no further explanation 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 colored 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 given rise to many and especially Asian designers to follow in his footsteps to create a wider variety of art jewelry for an ever-enlarging body of collectors and jewelry users. The mission of the ArtJewelryFinder.com 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 jewelry production house in China. The unique relationship between VGI and these jewelers allow VGI to act as a practical interphase to deal with custom orders. In addition, these unique and collector’s grade jewelry items require much more personal attention than the more common click buy, pay and deliver format commonly seen in online commerce.