Pantone, who knows more than anybody else about colors, has given the following forecast for 2010. Turquoise will be the color of the year. To be exact Pantone 15-5519. Enough of gloom and dull colors: the moment has arrived to be optimistic.
Pantone says the following about this color with a stone name:
“it is intriguing, refreshing and  calming. Advisable against stress, tiredness and to feel refreshed. It encourages us to restart with new strengths and new ideas. Turquoise is good for moments when we feel lonely, it helps us to be more communicative sensitive and creative”.

The Pantone arguments: it looks well on men and women, everybody reacts in a positive way, it refers to the ocean, to nature, it is easily  translated into fashion and jewelry.

Our reasoning: it is perfect with silver and works very well with the other stones used in fashion jewelry.

And on top of this, who are we to contradict the people of Pantone, with their 3.000 colors?

PICK OF THE WEEK:

Turquose necklace, Garda collection

Designed by Nadia Rabosio

You will like it if you like: craftsmanship. This necklace consist of seven small and irregular cavities, decorated with hot enamel and composed on a silver plated base.

For women: of any age. It is the perfect present for a girl of 17 and a women of 50.

You can wear them with: big shirts and neo-hippy dresses. With a black  asymmetric  T-shirt. Mixed with other longer necklaces.

Why do we choose it: because it stands for the spirit of 2010.

Silver earrings designed by Nadia Rabosio exclusively for Chaverdi

This month of November we want to offer a jewel as a present. Because we want to and because we feel like doing this. And we have not chosen not just any piece, but a designer jewel.
These silver earrings with a lava seed are part of the Hojas collection from Nadia Rabosio. The complete collection, necklace, bracelet and several different designs of earrings is authentic jewelry. They are made with silver 925 and with Italian lava stone. We like the metallic touch of silver combined with the strange texture of the lava. It is not by coincidence that Nadia Rabosio is from Italy… If you pay attention you will see her fingerprints on the silver parts.
The Hojas collection gathers all the essence that Chaverdi is: contemporary craftsmanship, care for details, design and connection with Nature. The Hojas collection is one of our star collections. On top of this, as all our designs, it is a limited edition. It is part of our philosophy: take as much care for a necklace as for the woman who wears it.
To get those earrings is very easy: there will be a lottery among the people who have bought in our shop online www.chaverdi.com. You have time till November 30th. The reward will be an advanced Christmas present. And talking about Christmas….

Have you seen Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950)? In this Italian film, Ingrid Bergman is a northern woman who, escaping from a complicated life, moves to an island dominated by a volcano. In Stromboli, the volcano is as much a protagonist as the Swedish actress. And you will say: why is she talking about this? Well, because we don’t want to be less than Rossellini (even though this is an unforgivable audacity) and we want to put a volcano (nice and quiet of course) in our lives.

How do we do it? Through its lava, a natural phenomena that inspires beauty as well as respect. The designer Nadia Rabosio has recuperated the Italian lava, black, very much black, porous and with an unusual fell and she has designed a jewelry collection called “Hojas”. Now you can buy earrings, necklaces and bracelets where the volcanic lava is mixed with silver. Craftsmanship is behind this jewelry and you can even see the designer’s fingerprints on the silver.

Because we are proud to have been able to capture a piece of nature, we want to share it with you. We are organizing a lottery and up to November the 30th everybody who will buy online can win these silver earrings with a lava seed. Of course these earrings are a limited edition. To feel a little bit as Ingrid Bergman.

PICK OF THE WEEK

Silver earrings with an Italian lava seed.

Designed by Nadia Rabosio. Collection Hojas.

You will like them if you like: a present, like the pair of earrings that we are giving away.

For women: who believe in the strength of nature, for beauty without kitsch.

You can wear them with:  an extra large foulard and your favorite Levi’s.

Why do we choose them: because it is a piece of jewelry that you can wear 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.