MUSE launches new Charming Initiative

The New York-based mostly good jewelry company Muse is expanding its charitable charming initiative ‘Have A Heart’ with new manufacturer ambassador Meeling Wong.  

MUSE collaborates with a roster of gifted designers on a collection of earmarked charms to profit a host of charitable triggers. Philanthropic, high-quality jewelry-loving, wonderful individuals act as ambassadors, curating a collection of charms and choosing a charity that is meaningful to them. 

Proceeds have gone to non-revenue and charities across the world, together with Glasswing Global, The Loveland Basis, and Citymeals on Wheels. MUSE sells just about every ambassador’s curation on the net, in its retail store, and at other suppliers.  

Wong: “This undertaking influenced me to assume in different ways about contributing with no throwing away,” she shared. “The six designers partnered with us on this journey have produced their Have A Coronary heart charms with recycled supplies, repurposing aged gemstones and utilizing scrap components from their archives.” With its concentration on regeneration rather than manufacturing, Wong acknowledges that this version of the charms for a result in will obstacle creators to assume and get the job done in different ways.  

Collaborating Designers:  

● Annoushka Jewellery (@annoushkajewellery) 

● Christopher Thompson-Royds (@cthompsonroyds)  

● Fernando Jorge (@fernandojorge)  

● Graziela (@grazielagems)  

● NN by NGHI (@nnbynghi)  

● 10 Thousand Items (@tenthousandthingsnyc) 

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

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• 10 percent of proceeds from attraction income will gain Charity: H2o, an group with the ambitious target of ending the world-wide water crisis. 

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While the h2o crisis is great, this non for profit is optimistic. Charity: H2o understands how to solve the issue, and they make development every single day thanks to the assist of area companions and supporters. 

So significantly:

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• about 110,000 drinking water tasks have been funded

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• in 29 unique countries

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• and more than 15 million people have been served.

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• With this initiative, Wong aims to raise ample cash ($10,000) from the jewellery local community to lead to this vital mission.

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• Because of to the organization’s distinctive funding product, 100% of public donations go right to fund cleanse drinking water projects, allowing for this to make even more of an influence. 

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This Charming Initiative is the most current of numerous that comprise MUSE’s multi-designer, amazing, collaborative, 

The strategy at the rear of Have A Heart is straightforward but powerful: We can complete a great deal collaboratively if all people does a minimal little bit. Really genuine!

The philanthropic alternatives are unlimited, as are the mixtures of charms that can be built into without end items. 

MUSE is a jewelry showroom for emerging and recognized expertise. Founded by Jennifer Shanker, MUSE provides a a person-quit practical experience for foremost prospective buyers, stylists, editors, and non-public clients to seek out out and shop a one of a kind established of global designers.  

@musexmuse 

charity: water is a non-income corporation bringing clear and protected consuming h2o to individuals in developing nations around the world. Considering the fact that charity: drinking water was launched in 2006, the organization has been chasing a person formidable intention: ending the worldwide h2o disaster and partnering with area skilled companies that build sustainable, local community-owned drinking water assignments around the world. 

www.charitywater.org  

Annoushka 

“Recycling the gold by now in circulation seems noticeable rather than continuing to mine minimal means. Recycled gold is just as beautiful, retains the identical worth as freshly-mined gold, and has 600 occasions lessen carbon emissions than recently-mined gold.” 

Annoushka Ducas MBE started Annoushka in London in 2009. The founder and inventive director of her eponymous jewelry manufacturer, Annoushka, grew up in London, afterwards studying French language and civilization at the Sorbonne. From Paris, she moved to Hong Kong in the late Eighties and started to do the job with regional artisans, building jewellery for herself and her friends and family she co-founded her very first Company, Links of London, in 1990. A few decades on, she carries on this passion and exploration with Annoushka. 

Christopher Thompson-Royds  

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

Christopher Thompson Royds is an artist and jeweler of global renown whose work is provided in various outstanding collections in Europe and the US, together with the Victoria & Albert Museum, Uk. But also at the CODA Museum NL, Schmuck Museum DE, National Museum Zurich CH, and Museum of Great Artwork Houston US, Rotasa Selection Trust US. He is represented by Louisa Guinness Gallery in London, Mahnaz Collection 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 College or university of Artwork, London.

Fernando Jorge  

“I was thrilled with the problem to upcycle an more mature piece and make it into a heart charm, and it feels even better carrying out this for a superior trigger. Repurposing is intrinsic to jewellery for the reason that of the mother nature of the components. Having said that, the problem of seeking into my function and approaching my more mature styles opened quite a few alternatives in my intellect.”  

Brazilian-born jewelry designer Fernando Jorge encapsulates his property country’s laidback mind-set and easy sensuality, using domestically sourced and hand-carved gemstones, in-depth by his signature finish in fluid and fragile gold structures and diamonds. The consequence is distinctly sculptural jewelry that is both equally elegant and contemporary.  

At first learning in São Paulo, Fernando gathered working experience by way of vital style roles in Brazil prior to relocating to London for a Master’s Diploma in Jewelry Style and design at Central Saint Martins. His graduation collection, offered in 2010, was gained with significant acclaim and the designer subsequently proven his eponymous model in the Uk.  

Jorge’s noteworthy achievements include being the winner of Most effective in Colored Gemstones (2014), Ideal in Diamonds (2017), and Editor’s Decision (2018) at the Couture Jewelry Display, “Diamonds of the 12 months” from Town & Region (2018), British Style Awards nominations for “Greatest Emerging Accessories Designer” by the British Fashion Council (2014 & 2015), Business enterprise of Fashion’s 500 Persons Shaping the World Style Field (annually because 2014), the GEM Award for “Jewellery Designer of the 12 months (2019), and the Town & Nation Award for “Most effective in Diamonds” (2020).  

Graziela  

“This task from Meeling, even though tough to carry out, was useful. To repurpose diamonds and gold reclaimed from our aged items to build these coronary heart charms felt incredible. I look at them with adore and pleasure.”  

Graziela Kaufman hand-patterns each individual piece, a exercise she learned from her grandfather. She grew up in Brazil, mastering about several of the country’s all-natural methods. Her backyard was a ‘gemological treasure.’ She traveled to numerous different mining cities during Brazil, understanding about the interesting heritage guiding each stone that would finally inspire her foreseeable future creations.  

NN by NGHI  

“Upcycling is a wise artwork sort of our generation supplying neglected materials new life is magical function requiring in-depth creative imagination and creativity, our most cherished possessions.”  

‘Artifacts from a distant galaxy, excavated for the curious jewellery lover who is drawn to the unidentified and the alien’ Born in Vietnam, NGHI moved with his relatives to Australia following the Vietnam war. The experience of displacement affected his early curiosity in escapism and science fiction, as did subsequent several years living in Japan, which emerged in Tokyo’s subcultures when developing for style makes, musicians, and cult feature movies.  

In New York, he honed his abilities as a jeweler. He established NN, a fusion of east/west philosophies and aesthetics to express the forward motion of tradition and memory toward a subversive dimension of beauty.  

Ten Thousand Things  

“We chose to reuse scraps of black MOP (mother-of-pearl) left above from chopping our current 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 simple spring ring clasp.”  

TENTHOUSANDTHINGS is a selection of high-quality jewellery designed by Ron Anderson and David Rees, self-taught jewelers who came to the bench just after thriving professions in vogue retail. From their downtown New York Metropolis atelier, they meticulously handcraft modern-day heirlooms — sculptural kinds in silver and gold — impressed by abstract styles discovered in nature and intended to most effective highlight expertly-picked stones, which include Sleeping Splendor turquoise, black opals, and American organic pearls.  

Their obsessive look for for incredible stones recently led them to a stone carving workshop in Jaipur, in which David and Ron sit with competent artisans. 

Meeling Wong is the founder of Meeling Wong Associates, a business enterprise consultancy with substantial experience in Enterprise, manufacturer, and merchandise growth inside the jewelry industry given that 2013. Wong has held executive positions at David Yurman, John Hardy, and Georg Jensen and is a sturdy advocate for emerging expertise.  

@meelingwong