Curate Design

Curate Design

Curate Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Maize

Maize Jewelry is inspired by the Maya Maize God Emerging from a Flower, symbolizing life, rebirth, and abundance. Crafted from deep green Guatemala Jade with semi translucent petals, the design blends cultural symbolism with modern artistry. Gold elements reinforce the delicate jade, serving both aesthetic and structural purposes. Using 3D modeling and expert craftsmanship, this piece functions as both a hair ornament and a sculptural tribute to Mesoamerican heritage, embodying elegance, tradition, and innovation.

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Squama

The Squama is part of the Kerf Collection, a series that treats the body as a shifting landscape. Through precise kerf cuts, the silver gains fluidity, bending effortlessly to follow the body's natural topography. Its undulating surface catches and disperses light, creating a luminous gradient that shifts with movement. The interplay of incandescent highlights and satin-finished shadows accentuates the body's form, turning reflection into a living expression of light. The name Squama evokes an allusion to overlapping layers of plates, reflecting light in intricate patterns.

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Harmonic Honeycomb

Inspired by nature's intricate honeycomb, this ring combines creativity and craftsmanship in a unique and playful design. Featuring a pear shaped diamond that dangles slightly off center, it creates a lively dripping effect. Each hexagon is embellished with round diamonds, adding vibrant brilliance and enhancing the dynamic pattern. Meticulously crafted, this ring reflects the designer's commitment to quality, comfort, and artistry. With its blend of elegance and fun, it transforms the beauty of nature into a stunning statement piece.

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Starry Night

This diamond ring breaks away from traditional designs by cleverly using the spiral shoulder and a layout of the center stone surrounded with side stones, significantly enhancing visual layering. It not only highlights the perfect integration of advanced craftsmanship and aesthetic appeal, but also embodies deep cultural significance, bringing users an improved visual and emotional experience. Such a product increases the position of the Chinese local brand in the global jewelry market, and provides a fresh perspective and technical support for the future development of the jewelry industry.

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Dunhuang

Liang Xing uses the industry' s cutting edge digital technologies, like jewelry modeling and high-precision 3D printing. The Dunhuang series are working on now is based on Cave 320 Mogao Grottoes. The design team of Liang Xing expresses the ribbon on the flying asparas of Dunhuang in a way that captures the dynamic beauty of the ribbon and the charm of Dunhuang art with refined curves. The craftsmanship of jewelry reflects the fusion of digital enablement and intangible cultural heritage skills.

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Blooming Blossom

The designer integrates five culturally significant flowers, which are lotus, peony, chrysanthemum, calla lily and magnolia, into one whole piece. Flowering period of the five different flowers alternates throughout the year, implying happiness all year round. This is a piece of transformable jewelry developed from traditional jade carving and metalworking. Hand carved natural nephrite jade and set in 18K gold with diamonds inlaid,corundum set in the centre. The flower bangle disassemble to 5 different petal pendants, a cocktail ring and a simple bangle for multiwear needs.

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