The outcomes are in for the 2022 American Gem Commerce Affiliation (AGTA) Spectrum Awards, and new voices and weird supplies are on the fore.
“We had a variety of first-time multi-award winners, they usually have been ecstatic upon listening to the information,” says the affiliation’s CEO, John Ford, a 10-time Spectrum and Reducing Edge Award winner.
Development-wise, this yr’s entries included extra tourmalines and spinel, yellow gold jewelry, and step-cut gems, whereas kornerupine and dumortierite have been among the many rarest and most uncommon gems. Total, the whole variety of entries was practically 10 per cent larger this yr as in comparison with final yr, AGTA reviews.
This yr’s judges have been Susan Harrison (Jewellery Emporium), Derek Katzenbach (Katzenbach Designs), Sharon Khazzam (Sharon Khazzam Studio), Carter Malouf (Carter Malouf Personal Jeweler), and Mark Patterson (Mark Patterson Tremendous Jewellery). The panel evaluated every of the submissions primarily based on magnificence and wearability, innovation, materials use, client enchantment, and high quality of gems and workmanship.
“Calling all of the award winners was one of the vital gratifying experiences I’ve had with AGTA,” says Kimberly Collins, president of the affiliation’s board of administrators. “There have been so many tears of pleasure, which jogged my memory of the influence a Spectrum or Reducing Edge Award can have on a person and the momentum of his or her profession.”
“Our workforce is happy to develop the competitors and proceed casting spotlights on well-deserving jewelers and cutters,” Ford provides.
Learn on for an inventory of this yr’s prime winners.
Better of Present
Dalan Hargrave, GemStarz Jewellery – 210.55-carat ballerina carving in inexperienced beryl
Finest Use of Color
Robert Galustian, Robert Guild Jewellery Corp. – 18-karat blonde gold QEII earrings, that includes two cushion-cut mint inexperienced tourmalines (21.54 ctw) accented with two matching pair keystone-cut yellow sapphires, calf-cut kornerupines, 72 spherical amethysts, 66 spherical diamonds, and 6 marquise-cut inexperienced tourmalines
Finest Use of Pearl
Laurie Reid, LFR Studios – 22-karat yellow gold ring, that includes a 13.2-mm cultured Golden South Sea pearl
Vogue Ahead
Jeffrey Bilgore, Jeffrey Bilgore, LLC – 18-karat yellow gold and black ceramic ring, that includes a 4.03-carat pure fancy deep yellow diamond accented with 15 tsavorite garnets (0.17 ctw)
Better of Single Entries (Reducing Edge)
Robert Knupfer, Knupfer Worldwide Gems, Inc. – Pair of blue/inexperienced briolette drop tourmalines (75.57 ctw)
Better of Single Entries (Spectrum)
Buddy Austin, Third Eye Meeting – 18-karat yellow gold, platinum, 22-karat rose and inexperienced gold, 24-karat yellow gold, and 18-karat white gold ‘Underworld’ ring, that includes a 1.62-carat black opal, accented with tsavorite garnet, sapphire, and diamond
Finest Use of Platinum and Color
Mary van der Aa, Mary van der Aa – Platinum ‘Aria’ ring, that includes a 2.10-carat demantoid garnet accented with blue zircons (3.0 ctw) and diamonds
Finest Use of Platinum Crown
Brenda Smith, Brenda Smith Jewellery – Platinum hand-fabricated ring, that includes a 6.54-carat trillion-cut Tanzanite accented with spherical diamonds (1.25 ctw)
Bridal Put on
First Place
Gabriel Angulo, Pompos Jewellery Company – Platinum ring, that includes a 2.55-carat rectangular emerald-cut Colombian emerald accented with 24 spherical emeralds (0.31 ctw), 22 custom-cut baguette diamonds (2.77 ctw), and 62 spherical sensible diamonds (0.22 ctw)
Enterprise/Day Put on
First Place
Zoltan David, Zoltan David – Excessive-polished metal, iridescent blue and purple metal, platinum, 18-karat, and pure gold inlay ‘Into the Mystic’ cuff bracelet, that includes spherical and marquise-shaped tsavorites (5.60 ctw) accented with blue sapphires (0.48 ctw) and diamonds (1.20 ctw)
Classical
First Place
Gabriel Angulo, Pompos Jewellery Company – Platinum ring, that includes a 6.29-carat blue Ceylon sapphire accented with 14 custom-cut baguette diamonds (2.27 ctw), 10 princess-cut sapphires (1.79 ctw), 30 spherical sapphires (0.44 ctw), and 58 spherical sensible diamonds (0.29 ctw)
Night Put on
First Place
Jeffrey Bilgore, Jeffrey Bilgore, LLC – 18-karat yellow gold and black ceramic ring, that includes a 4.03-carat pure fancy deep yellow diamond accented with 15 tsavorite garnets (0.17 ctw)
Males’s Put on
First Place
Zoltan David, Someplace In The Rainbow – Knight metal and 24-karat yellow gold ‘The Kings Ring,’ that includes a 29.09-carat purple-red cabochon tourmaline accented with 10 crimson spinels (0.15 ctw), diamonds (0.02 ctw), and patent inlay bead gold
Editor’s Selection – Spectrum
Ian Delucca, Khobe Delucca – 18-karat yellow gold and ruthenium plated Artwork Deco ring, that includes blue emerald-cut tourmaline (4.84 ctw), spherical tourmaline (0.38 ctw.), and diamonds (0.42 ctw)
Editor’s Selection (Reducing Edge)
Jaimeen Shah, Prima Gems USA – Suite of 23 multi-coloured, Portuguese-cut zircons (228.64 ctw)
Reducing Edge
Traditional Gems
First Place
Joseph Ambalu, Amba Gem Corp. – 4.43-carat no oil emerald-cut Colombian emerald
All Different Reduce Gems
First Place
Ben Kho, Kho Worldwide, Ltd. – 32.50-carat sunburst-cut kunzite
Carving
First Place
Dalan Hargrave, GemStarz Jewellery – 210.55-carat ballerina carving in inexperienced beryl
Progressive Faceting
First Place
John Dyer, Someplace within the Rainbow – 147.96-carat orange golden citrine titled, ‘Crescendo’
North American Mined Gems
First Place
Ben Kho, Kho Worldwide, Ltd. – 11.46-carat vintage cushion-cut rhodochrosite from Colorado
Objects of Artwork
First Place
Dalan Hargrave, GemStarz Jewellery – 900-carat ametrine, accented with citrine and chrome diopside essence bottle
Honourable Point out
Llyn L. Strelau, Jewels by Design – Bronze and 18-karat inexperienced, crimson, and white gold ‘Life within the Jungle’ carved Labradorite chameleon, with petrified wooden, quartz, agate, Labradorite, spinel, pearls, tsavorite garnets, sapphires, rubies, and diamonds
Pairs and Suites
First Place
Robert Knupfer, Knupfer Worldwide Gems, Inc. – Pair of blue/inexperienced briolette drop tourmalines (75.57 ctw)
Phenomenal
First Place
Desmond Chan, Gem Arts Worldwide – 14.90-carat scorching pink to purple colour-change modified spherical sensible pyrope garnet titled, ‘Cosmic Kaleidoscope’
For a whole listing of this yr’s winners, click on right here.
