A Lifetime in my Choos

A Lifetime in my Choos

What was your first encounter with a Choo? Mine was etherically on the Staten Island Ferry in NYC in the year 2000, watching Carrie Bradshaw miss her ferry for a gorgeous pair of feather embellished…

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Wax Creation

Wax Creation

During my time with L’Ecole des Arts Joailliers I was introduced to hand carving of wax models, where the artisan carves the wax directly into the wax model for gold casting.  This process is very…

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Designing for Eternal Love

Designing for Eternal Love

 Salama Khalfan: Bespoke Bridal Piece from Salama Khalfan Jewellery on Vimeo.   I think one of the most beautiful -and honorable- things in the journey of a jeweler is to be chosen to design…

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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

It was 2014, Khalid and I were newly wedded, and our honeymoon was going to be series of pitstops in renovated ancient Italian ruins, palazzi hopping -is the word- in a 1968 convertible Mercedes Pagoda that…

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