MUSE launches new Charming Initiative

The New York-based wonderful jewellery company Muse is increasing its charitable charming initiative ‘Have A Coronary heart’ with new model ambassador Meeling Wong.  

MUSE collaborates with a roster of gifted designers on a set of earmarked charms to profit a number of charitable causes. Philanthropic, wonderful jewelry-loving, fabulous individuals act as ambassadors, curating a collection of charms and selecting a charity that’s significant to them. 

Proceeds have gone to non-profits and charities throughout the globe, together with Glasswing Worldwide, The Loveland Basis, and Citymeals on Wheels. MUSE sells every ambassador’s curation on-line, in its retailer, and at different retailers.  

Wong: “This challenge impressed me to assume in a different way about contributing with out losing,” she shared. “The six designers partnered with us on this journey have created their Have A Coronary heart charms with recycled supplies, repurposing outdated gem stones and utilizing scrap supplies from their archives.” With its deal with regeneration moderately than manufacturing, Wong acknowledges that this version of the charms for a trigger will problem creators to assume and work in a different way.  

Collaborating Designers:  

● Annoushka Jewelry (@annoushkajewellery) 

● Christopher Thompson-Royds (@cthompsonroyds)  

● Fernando Jorge (@fernandojorge)  

● Graziela (@grazielagems)  

● NN by NGHI (@nnbynghi)  

● Ten Thousand Issues (@tenthousandthingsnyc) 

• The value vary for the charms is $925 – $11,000, and they’re going to all be obtainable on the MUSE Store -605 Hudson Avenue, New York, NY 10014- and on MUSExMUSE.com.
• Ten p.c of proceeds from allure gross sales will profit Charity: Water, a corporation with the formidable purpose of ending the worldwide water disaster. 

Whereas the water disaster is big, this non for revenue is optimistic. Charity: Water understands tips on how to resolve the issue, and so they make progress on daily basis because of the assistance of native companions and supporters. 

To date:

• over 110,000 water initiatives have been funded
• in 29 completely different nations
• and over 15 million individuals have been served.
• With this initiative, Wong goals to boost enough funds ($10,000) from the jewellery neighborhood to contribute to this important mission.
• Because of the group’s distinctive funding mannequin, 100% of public donations go on to fund clear water initiatives, permitting this to make much more of an impression. 

This Charming Initiative is the newest of many who comprise MUSE’s multi-designer, extraordinary, collaborative, 

The concept behind Have A Coronary heart is straightforward however highly effective: We are able to accomplish rather a lot collaboratively if everybody does just a little bit. Very true!

The philanthropic potentialities are infinite, as are the combos of charms that may be made into ceaselessly items. 

MUSE is a jewellery showroom for rising and established expertise. Based by Jennifer Shanker, MUSE gives a one-stop expertise for main patrons, stylists, editors, and personal purchasers to hunt out and store a novel set of worldwide designers.  

@musexmuse 

charity: water is a non-profit group bringing clear and protected ingesting water to individuals in creating nations. Since charity: water was based in 2006, the group has been chasing one formidable purpose: ending the worldwide water disaster and partnering with native skilled organizations that construct sustainable, community-owned water initiatives worldwide. 

www.charitywater.org  

Annoushka 

“Recycling the gold already in circulation appears apparent moderately than persevering with to mine restricted assets. Recycled gold is simply as lovely, holds the identical worth as newly-mined gold, and has 600 occasions decrease carbon emissions than newly-mined gold.” 

Annoushka Ducas MBE based Annoushka in London in 2009. The founder and artistic director of her eponymous jewellery model, Annoushka, grew up in London, later finding out French language and civilization on the Sorbonne. From Paris, she moved to Hong Kong within the late Eighties and commenced to work with native artisans, designing jewellery for herself and her family and friends; she co-founded her first Enterprise, Hyperlinks of London, in 1990. Three a long time on, she continues this ardour and exploration with Annoushka. 

Christopher Thompson-Royds  

“I swept and picked up gold mud from my bench and located the diamonds on the ground of my studio – recycle, reuse!”  

Christopher Thompson Royds is an artist and jeweler of worldwide renown whose work is included in a number of distinguished collections in Europe and the US, together with the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK. But additionally on the CODA Museum; NL, Schmuck Museum; DE, Nationwide Museum Zurich; CH, and Museum of Tremendous Artwork Houston; US, Rotasa Assortment Belief; US. He’s represented by Louisa Guinness Gallery in London, Mahnaz Assortment in New York, Irene Belfi Gallery in Milan, and Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen.

Christopher has an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork, and Jewelry from the Royal Faculty of Artwork, London.

Fernando Jorge  

“I used to be thrilled with the problem to upcycle an older piece and make it right into a coronary heart allure, and it feels even higher doing this for a very good trigger. Repurposing is intrinsic to jewellery due to the character of the supplies. Nonetheless, the problem of wanting into my work and approaching my older designs opened many potentialities in my thoughts.”  

Brazilian-born jewellery designer Fernando Jorge encapsulates his dwelling nation’s laidback perspective and easy sensuality, utilizing domestically sourced and hand-carved gem stones, detailed by his signature end in fluid and delicate gold constructions and diamonds. The result’s distinctly sculptural jewellery that’s each elegant and fashionable.  

Initially finding out in São Paulo, Fernando gathered expertise by essential design roles in Brazil earlier than transferring to London for a Grasp’s Diploma in Jewelry Design at Central Saint Martins. His commencement assortment, offered in 2010, was obtained with essential acclaim and the designer subsequently established his eponymous model within the UK.  

Jorge’s notable achievements embrace being the winner of Finest in Coloured Gems (2014), Finest in Diamonds (2017), and Editor’s Selection (2018) on the Couture Jewellery Present, “Diamonds of the 12 months” from City & Nation (2018), British Vogue Awards nominations for “Finest Rising Equipment Designer” by the British Vogue Council (2014 & 2015), Enterprise of Vogue’s 500 Individuals Shaping the International Vogue Business (yearly since 2014), the GEM Award for “Jewelry Designer of the 12 months (2019), and the City & Nation Award for “Finest in Diamonds” (2020).  

Graziela  

“This challenge from Meeling, though tough to perform, was advantageous. To repurpose diamonds and gold reclaimed from our outdated items to create these coronary heart charms felt unbelievable. I take a look at them with love and delight.”  

Graziela Kaufman hand-designs each piece, a apply she realized from her grandfather. She grew up in Brazil, studying about lots of the nation’s pure assets. Her yard was a ‘gemological treasure.’ She traveled to many alternative mining cities all through Brazil, studying in regards to the fascinating historical past behind each stone that might finally encourage her future creations.  

NN by NGHI  

“Upcycling is a sensible artwork type of our technology; giving uncared for supplies new life is magical work requiring in-depth creativity and creativeness, our most valuable possessions.”  

‘Artifacts from a distant galaxy, excavated for the curious jewellery lover who’s drawn to the unknown and the alien’ Born in Vietnam, NGHI moved along with his household to Australia after the Vietnam struggle. The expertise of displacement influenced his early curiosity in escapism and science fiction, as did subsequent years residing in Japan, which emerged in Tokyo’s subcultures whereas designing for trend manufacturers, musicians, and cult characteristic movies.  

In New York, he honed his expertise as a jeweler. He created NN, a fusion of east/west philosophies and aesthetics to specific the ahead movement of custom and reminiscence towards a subversive dimension of magnificence.  

Ten Thousand Issues  

“We selected to reuse scraps of black MOP (mother-of-pearl) left over from slicing our latest Sotheby’s chandelier earrings. One facet of the guts is white; the opposite is black. We studded them along with 18k gold wire, and so they have a easy spring ring clasp.”  

TENTHOUSANDTHINGS is a set of wonderful jewellery designed by Ron Anderson and David Rees, self-taught jewelers who got here to the bench after profitable careers in trend retail. From their downtown New York Metropolis atelier, they meticulously handcraft fashionable heirlooms — sculptural types in silver and gold — impressed by summary shapes present in nature and meant to greatest spotlight expertly-chosen stones, together with Sleeping Magnificence turquoise, black opals, and American pure pearls.  

Their obsessive seek for extraordinary stones lately led them to a stone carving workshop in Jaipur, the place David and Ron sit with expert artisans. 

Meeling Wong is the founding father of Meeling Wong Associates, a enterprise consultancy with in depth expertise in Enterprise, model, and product growth inside the jewellery trade since 2013. Wong has held government positions at David Yurman, John Hardy, and Georg Jensen and is a robust advocate for rising expertise.  

@meelingwong