This is the vieuw from Chaverdi’s window. It is the lake of Banyoles, imposing, sleepy and romantic air, as all lakes have. At the same time it is a symbol of live. Here children play, people swim, you walk around it and there are competitions as the World Canoeing Championship that will be held in 2010.

I like lakes. The sea always takes the flatteries, but a lake keeps an special authenticity. Not long ago they published a list of the nicest lakes in the world. Among them were the Plitvice in Croacia, the Crater Lake, the Dead Sea, the Caspian Sea, Lake Titicaca and Lake Atitlan. That’s my favorite. It is located in Guatemala, surrounded by volcanoes and seems to be beyond time and space. In Atitlan, whose water is blue as the Caribe and charges positive energy, there are many little towns and small ecologic hotels, as the Lomas de Tzunumá, with huge wooden balconies hanging above the lake. To lean out and see the daybreak is an experience of absolute luxury.

Nature, together with Art and Culture are the inspiring sources of our designers; somehow this lake is behind Chaverdi’s jewelry and fashion jewelry. It is nice to shift the sight from the computer and the papers and take a look through the window. This way the color of water, the sky and the plants becomes very present. Afterwards we go back to our limited editions, our necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings and we feel that there is a bridge between what we do and what we see from our room with a view.

P.S.: Which are your favorite lakes?

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PICK OF THE WEEK

Silver plated bracelet. Aros collection. Designer: Nadia Rabosio

You will like it if you like: design in the right mesure, without complications or excess.
For women: who leave home at 8 am and don’t know if by the end of the day there will be a party.
You can wear it with: an oversize bracelet, mixing without fear sizes and materials.
Why do we choose it: because it is inspired in Nature, by  rain water falling in the lake.

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.