MUSE launches new Charming Initiative

The New York-based positive 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 proficient designers on a group of earmarked charms to profit a bunch of charitable causes. Philanthropic, positive jewelry-loving, fabulous folks act as ambassadors, curating a number of charms and choosing 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 venture 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partnered with us on this journey have created their Have A Coronary heart charms with recycled supplies, repurposing outdated gems and utilizing scrap supplies from their archives. » With its deal with regeneration relatively than manufacturing, Wong acknowledges that this version of the charms for a trigger will problem creators to assume and work in a different way.  

Taking part 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 accessible on the MUSE Store -605 Hudson Avenue, New York, NY 10014- and on MUSExMUSE.com.
• Ten % of proceeds from appeal gross sales will profit Charity: Water, a company with the bold objective of ending the worldwide water disaster. 

Whereas the water disaster is gigantic, this non for revenue is optimistic. Charity: Water understands how you can remedy the issue, and so they make progress day-after-day due to the assistance of native companions and supporters. 

Up to now:

• over 110,000 water tasks have been funded
• in 29 completely different international locations
• and over 15 million folks have been served.
• With this initiative, Wong goals to boost ample funds ($10,000) from the jewellery group to contribute to this very important mission.
• As a result of group’s distinctive funding mannequin, 100% of public donations go on to fund clear water tasks, 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 thought behind Have A Coronary heart is easy however highly effective: We are able to accomplish so much collaboratively if everybody does just a little bit. Very true!

The philanthropic prospects are countless, 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 consumers, stylists, editors, and personal shoppers to hunt out and store a singular set of worldwide designers.  

@musexmuse 

charity: water is a non-profit group bringing clear and secure consuming water to folks in growing international locations. Since charity: water was based in 2006, the group has been chasing one bold objective: ending the worldwide water disaster and partnering with native skilled organizations that construct sustainable, community-owned water tasks worldwide. 

www.charitywater.org  

Annoushka 

« Recycling the gold already in circulation appears apparent relatively than persevering with to mine restricted sources. Recycled gold is simply as lovely, holds the identical worth as newly-mined gold, and has 600 instances 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 learning French language and civilization on the Sorbonne. From Paris, she moved to Hong Kong within the late Eighties and started 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 outstanding 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 Fantastic 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 School 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 appeal, and it feels even higher doing this for an excellent trigger. Repurposing is intrinsic to jewellery due to the character of the supplies. Nevertheless, the problem of trying into my work and approaching my older designs opened many prospects in my thoughts. »  

Brazilian-born jewellery designer Fernando Jorge encapsulates his house nation’s laidback angle and easy sensuality, utilizing regionally sourced and hand-carved gems, detailed by his signature end in fluid and delicate gold buildings and diamonds. The result’s distinctly sculptural jewellery that’s each elegant and fashionable.  

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

Jorge’s notable achievements embrace being the winner of Greatest in Coloured Gem stones (2014), Greatest in Diamonds (2017), and Editor’s Selection (2018) on the Couture Jewellery Present, « Diamonds of the 12 months » from City & Nation (2018), British Style Awards nominations for « Greatest Rising Equipment Designer » by the British Style Council (2014 & 2015), Enterprise of Style’s 500 Folks Shaping the World Style Business (yearly since 2014), the GEM Award for « Jewelry Designer of the 12 months (2019), and the City & Nation Award for « Greatest in Diamonds » (2020).  

Graziela  

« This venture 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 have a look at them with love and delight. »  

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

NN by NGHI  

« Upcycling is a clever artwork type of our era; giving uncared for supplies new life is magical work requiring in-depth creativity and creativeness, our most treasured 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 dwelling in Japan, which emerged in Tokyo’s subcultures whereas designing for style 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 precise 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 current Sotheby’s chandelier earrings. One aspect of the center 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 group of positive jewellery designed by Ron Anderson and David Rees, self-taught jewelers who got here to the bench after profitable careers in style retail. From their downtown New York Metropolis atelier, they meticulously handcraft fashionable heirlooms — sculptural kinds in silver and gold — impressed by summary shapes present in nature and meant to finest spotlight expertly-chosen stones, together with Sleeping Magnificence turquoise, black opals, and American pure pearls.  

Their obsessive seek for extraordinary stones just 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 throughout the jewellery business since 2013. Wong has held government positions at David Yurman, John Hardy, and Georg Jensen and is a robust advocate for rising expertise.  

@meelingwong