SEEN AT @BY_COUTURE AT @WYNNLASVEGAS: There are a lot of heritage brands in the jewelry world, but few have earned (let alone maintained and expanded upon) the level of respect granted to @IliasLALAoUNIS. Now the house founded by the late, great Greek goldsmith is in the very capable and dynamic hands of his four daughters, who do a seamless job of taking inspiration from their father’s vast and meticulously maintained archives—many pieces from which can be found at the sensational @Ilias_LALAoUNIS_Jewelry_Museum in Athens—while reinterpreting it for today’s clients and collectors. Some of the pieces that I feverishly fondled, this year, at COUTURE, were a Lapis Lazuli Cameo; a cool Four-Row Ring of Gold and Diamonds; a large Cycladic Idol Pendant of Hand-hammered Gold; a fabulously elegant but effortlessly easy-to-wear Gold Link Necklace with Diamonds; a trio of very modern and sculptural Square Gold Rings set with Cabochon Emeralds and topped with a Bird, a Flower, or an Orb; and an utterly sublime Gold Tassel Necklace with Emeralds that shines a light on two of my favorite LALAoUNIS techniques, Granulation and Hand-weaving. That it all feels so wonderful against the skin is perhaps but one of the reasons Lalaounis once said that gold was “the most human material.” #GetIntoIt #WearableProzac #LALAoUNIS #IliasLalaounis #DemetraLalaouniAuerspergBreunner #MariaLalaouniBoutari #AikateriniLalaouni #IoannaLalaouni #Legacy #Athens #Greece #Gold #18KGold #22KGold #HandHammering #Granulation #HandWeaving #Filigree #Tassels #SquareRings #Cameos #CycladicIdol #HandCrafted #GreekDesign #Hellenistic #Classical #Minoan #Mycenaean #COUTURE2021 #ThisIsCOUTURE (at Wynn Las Vegas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTdvDUfL3px/?utm_medium=tumblr
