MUSE launches new Charming Initiative

The New York-centered good jewellery agency Muse is increasing its charitable charming initiative ‘Have A Heart’ with new brand ambassador Meeling Wong.  

MUSE collaborates with a roster of proficient designers on a collection of earmarked charms to profit a host of charitable leads to. Philanthropic, wonderful jewellery-loving, magnificent men and women act as ambassadors, curating a choice of charms and buying a charity that is meaningful to them. 

Proceeds have absent to non-gains and charities across the globe, such as Glasswing Global, The Loveland Foundation, and Citymeals on Wheels. MUSE sells each ambassador’s curation on the web, in its shop, and at other stores.  

Wong: “This challenge inspired me to think differently about contributing devoid of squandering,” she shared. “The 6 designers partnered with us on this journey have made their Have A Coronary heart charms with recycled components, repurposing previous gemstones and working with scrap products from their archives.” With its target on regeneration instead than creation, Wong acknowledges that this version of the charms for a lead to will problem creators to assume and do the job in different ways.  

Participating Designers:  

● Annoushka Jewelry (@annoushkajewellery) 

● Christopher Thompson-Royds (@cthompsonroyds)  

● Fernando Jorge (@fernandojorge)  

● Graziela (@grazielagems)  

● NN by NGHI (@nnbynghi)  

● Ten Thousand Points (@tenthousandthingsnyc) 

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• The cost variety for the charms is $925 – $11,000, and they will all be accessible at the MUSE Store -605 Hudson Avenue, New York, NY 10014- and on MUSExMUSE.com.

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• 10 percent of proceeds from attraction sales will reward Charity: Drinking water, an business with the bold objective of ending the world wide water disaster. 

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Even though the drinking water crisis is massive, this non for gain is optimistic. Charity: Drinking water understands how to clear up the difficulty, and they make progress each and every working day many thanks to the help of neighborhood companions and supporters. 

So much:

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• more than 110,000 drinking water assignments have been funded

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• in 29 distinctive international locations

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• and more than 15 million folks have been served.

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• With this initiative, Wong aims to increase enough cash ($10,000) from the jewellery community to lead to this important mission.

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• Thanks to the organization’s unique funding product, 100% of general public donations go immediately to fund clear water projects, enabling this to make even more of an affect. 

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This Charming Initiative is the most recent of many that comprise MUSE’s multi-designer, extraordinary, collaborative, 

The plan at the rear of Have A Coronary heart is very simple but strong: We can attain a great deal collaboratively if all people does a tiny little bit. Very accurate!

The philanthropic alternatives are endless, as are the combinations of charms that can be designed into endlessly pieces. 

MUSE is a jewelry showroom for emerging and set up talent. Founded by Jennifer Shanker, MUSE gives a just one-cease expertise for leading buyers, stylists, editors, and non-public clientele to search for out and store a exceptional set of intercontinental designers.  

@musexmuse 

charity: water is a non-profit business bringing clean up and safe and sound consuming water to people in building nations. Because charity: h2o was started in 2006, the corporation has been chasing a single formidable objective: ending the world-wide h2o crisis and partnering with neighborhood expert organizations that create sustainable, local community-owned h2o projects around the world. 

www.charitywater.org  

Annoushka 

“Recycling the gold previously in circulation seems noticeable somewhat than continuing to mine constrained sources. Recycled gold is just as lovely, retains the similar price as freshly-mined gold, and has 600 times reduce carbon emissions than recently-mined gold.” 

Annoushka Ducas MBE started Annoushka in London in 2009. The founder and inventive director of her eponymous jewellery brand name, Annoushka, grew up in London, later researching French language and civilization at the Sorbonne. From Paris, she moved to Hong Kong in the late Eighties and began to function with area artisans, coming up with jewelry for herself and her close friends and loved ones she co-launched her very first Business, Inbound links of London, in 1990. Three decades on, she continues this enthusiasm and exploration with Annoushka. 

Christopher Thompson-Royds  

“I swept and collected gold dust from my bench and found the diamonds on the flooring of my studio – recycle, reuse!”  

Christopher Thompson Royds is an artist and jeweler of intercontinental renown whose function is incorporated in a number of popular collections in Europe and the US, which includes the Victoria & Albert Museum, Uk. But also at the CODA Museum NL, Schmuck Museum DE, Nationwide Museum Zurich CH, and Museum of High-quality Art Houston US, Rotasa Selection Have faith in US. He is represented by Louisa Guinness Gallery in London, Mahnaz Selection in New York, Irene Belfi Gallery in Milan, and Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen.

Christopher has an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork, and Jewellery from the Royal College of Art, London.

Fernando Jorge  

“I was thrilled with the challenge to upcycle an older piece and make it into a heart attraction, and it feels even far better performing this for a great trigger. Repurposing is intrinsic to jewelry because of the nature of the elements. Even so, the challenge of seeking into my work and approaching my older styles opened numerous choices in my thoughts.”  

Brazilian-born jewellery designer Fernando Jorge encapsulates his house country’s laidback mind-set and effortless sensuality, utilizing domestically sourced and hand-carved gemstones, detailed by his signature end in fluid and sensitive gold buildings and diamonds. The end result is distinctly sculptural jewelry that is equally exquisite and contemporary.  

In the beginning finding out in São Paulo, Fernando collected practical experience through very important style and design roles in Brazil ahead of transferring to London for a Master’s Degree in Jewelry Structure at Central Saint Martins. His graduation assortment, presented in 2010, was acquired with critical acclaim and the designer subsequently recognized his eponymous brand name in the Uk.  

Jorge’s notable achievements contain being the winner of Ideal in Coloured Gemstones (2014), Most effective in Diamonds (2017), and Editor’s Selection (2018) at the Couture Jewelry Present, “Diamonds of the 12 months” from Town & Nation (2018), British Style Awards nominations for “Most effective Emerging Equipment Designer” by the British Trend Council (2014 & 2015), Small business of Fashion’s 500 People Shaping the World Fashion Business (yearly considering the fact that 2014), the GEM Award for “Jewelry Designer of the Calendar year (2019), and the City & Region Award for “Best in Diamonds” (2020).  

Graziela  

“This task from Meeling, though tricky to accomplish, was useful. To repurpose diamonds and gold reclaimed from our old items to create these coronary heart charms felt amazing. I glimpse at them with enjoy and delight.”  

Graziela Kaufman hand-layouts every single piece, a exercise she figured out from her grandfather. She grew up in Brazil, mastering about numerous of the country’s all-natural means. Her backyard was a ‘gemological treasure.’ She traveled to quite a few diverse mining cities through Brazil, learning about the fascinating background powering every single stone that would finally encourage her potential creations.  

NN by NGHI  

“Upcycling is a smart artwork type of our generation giving neglected elements new daily life is magical get the job done demanding in-depth creative imagination and creativity, our most precious belongings.”  

‘Artifacts from a distant galaxy, excavated for the curious jewellery lover who is drawn to the unfamiliar and the alien’ Born in Vietnam, NGHI moved with his family to Australia right after the Vietnam war. The expertise of displacement motivated his early fascination in escapism and science fiction, as did subsequent a long time residing in Japan, which emerged in Tokyo’s subcultures when building for style manufacturers, musicians, and cult function movies.  

In New York, he honed his expertise as a jeweler. He developed NN, a fusion of east/west philosophies and aesthetics to convey the ahead motion of custom and memory towards a subversive dimension of natural beauty.  

10 Thousand Things  

“We selected to reuse scraps of black MOP (mother-of-pearl) remaining in excess of from slicing our modern Sotheby’s chandelier earrings. 1 side of the heart is white the other is black. We studded them collectively with 18k gold wire, and they have a uncomplicated spring ring clasp.”  

TENTHOUSANDTHINGS is a selection of fine jewellery intended by Ron Anderson and David Rees, self-taught jewelers who came to the bench soon after profitable careers in style retail. From their downtown New York Town atelier, they meticulously handcraft modern day heirlooms — sculptural kinds in silver and gold — encouraged by summary styles discovered in mother nature and meant to finest spotlight expertly-picked stones, which include Sleeping Natural beauty turquoise, black opals, and American all-natural pearls.  

Their obsessive look for for amazing stones just lately led them to a stone carving workshop in Jaipur, the place David and Ron sit with experienced artisans. 

Meeling Wong is the founder of Meeling Wong Associates, a small business consultancy with extensive experience in Organization, brand, and product or service enhancement within the jewellery market because 2013. Wong has held govt positions at David Yurman, John Hardy, and Georg Jensen and is a robust advocate for emerging talent.  

@meelingwong