Pioneering laboratory-grown and created gemstones
We are the first fine jewellery brand in the world to champion laboratory-grown gemstones & recycled metals, paired with high jewellery design and artisanal craftsmanship, always driven by a focus on sustainable innovations.
OUR GEMSTONES
Laboratory-grown gemstones have a lot of positive aspects when compared to natural mined gemstones. No mining and no excavation and loss of natural habitats are necessary with significantly lower environmental impact. Laboratory grown gemstones stones are grown in a controlled, safe environment powered by renewable energy.
Our laboratory grown gemstones are powered by material science innovations and our vision to turn waste to wonder, from diamonds synthesised from carbon dioxide captured from the air, to recycled refined aluminium from soda cans.
The gemological composition and chemical structure of the stones we use can be identical (known as synthesised) or different (known as simulated) to its natural mined counterparts. From the rough stone, it is then cut, faceted, polished and set painstakingly by hand using traditional artisanal techniques
Dive into the World of Sustainable Innovations
This Jeweler Makes Magic With Lab-Grown Gems. In a bid to find sustainable solutions for a historically destructive industry, Anabela Chan makes jewelry from lab-grown gems and recycled metals. The result? Nature-inspired ornaments worn by the likes of Rihanna and Taylor Swift.
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Chapter 1 . Recycled Aluminium from Soda Cans
2020: BLOOMS! is the first of its kind fine jewellery collection using recycled and refined aluminium from drink cans as the base metal, paired with scintillating laboratory-grown and created gemstones in vivid hues to create a dramatic, unusual and sculptural collection of blossoming blooms in forms of statement earrings and brooch pins.
2021: Mermaid's Tale Collection is inspired by the Ocean, Made with Ocean waste metals, Pledged to restore Ocean ecosystems.
2024: Magma & Aurora 10-year Anniversary Collection, inspired by the two most magnificent natural phenomenas with the incredible colour play of molten magma and aurora borealis, 8 special creations pioneering a painterly anodised recycled aluminium technique two years in the making.
DISCOVER2021: Mermaid's Tale Collection is inspired by the Ocean, Made with Ocean waste metals, Pledged to restore Ocean ecosystems.
2024: Magma & Aurora 10-year Anniversary Collection, inspired by the two most magnificent natural phenomenas with the incredible colour play of molten magma and aurora borealis, 8 special creations pioneering a painterly anodised recycled aluminium technique two years in the making.
Through a process of trial and error, it is a project 2 and half years in the making. By taking waste aluminium drink cans as the base metal, the cans are cut up into small 1.5cm squares, then melted at approximately 600 degrees C (the colours printed on the outside of the cans disappear in the heat). Through a process of refining it to overcome the impurities, the molten aluminium is then poured into ingots (bars of metal cooled from the melted and refined aluminium), ready for casting.
BLOOMS!
From the ingots onwards, similar to gold pebbles and bars, the process is the same as working with precious metals in jewellery, where we are able to create miniature sculptures through the ancient artisanal process of lost-wax casting.
The unusual, incredible psychedelic iridescent colours have been achieved using physical vapour deposition, known as PVD, the same technique used in the car industries to colour car bodies.
MERMAID'S TALE
The unusual, incredible psychedelic iridescent colours have been achieved using physical vapour deposition, known as PVD, the same technique used in the car industries to colour car bodies.
To celebrate our 10-year anniversary in 2024, we unveiled 8 special creations pioneering a ‘painterly’ effect in anodised recycled & refined aluminium, a new technique two years in the making.
Anodising is an electrochemical process that develops an aluminium oxide coating on the surface of the aluminium, which gives it its colour and resistance, with a hardness equivalent of 9 on the Moh’s scale, second to diamonds.
MAGMA & AURORA
Anodising is an electrochemical process that develops an aluminium oxide coating on the surface of the aluminium, which gives it its colour and resistance, with a hardness equivalent of 9 on the Moh’s scale, second to diamonds.
Chapter 2 . Fruit Gems™
Crafted in our atelier through over three years of research, Fruit Gems™ are radiant creations drawn from the world’s most vivid botanicals. Using pigments gently extracted from beetroots, spinach, blueberries, dragon fruit, and spirulina, each gemstone is a celebration of colour—alive with the essence of the earth, and completed with artisanal precision.
DISCOVER
Following our research theme of ‘Waste to Wonder’, from our first fine jewellery collection Blooms! featuring refined/recycled aluminium from soda cans launched in 2020, we are excited to present our latest innovation collection – Fruit Gems™ - colourful jewels with luscious gemstones synthesised from natural fruits and vegetables.
A staggering 40%+ of all food produced and available in the West are thrown away as excess every year. This equates to 9.5million tonnes of food waste in the U.K. annually, with 44 million tonnes of food going to landfills in the U.S. alone every year. What if we can take perfectly ripen fruits and vegetables beyond their sell-by dates, and turn them into a new genre of gemstones synthesised from natural matters?
Learning from ancient foraging and pigmentation techniques from as far back as the Palaeolithic period, we present Fruit Gems™ – a collection of colourful, luscious gemstones synthesised from Spinach, Beetroot, Blueberry, Purple Sweet Potato, Blue Spirulina, Green Plankton, and Dragon Fruit.
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