Custom Jewelry Design
In a world where clients increasingly value rarity and authenticity of an original design, Diamond Lady introduces, As You Dream, a truly unique approach to customization and personalization, capable of fulfilling the most ambitious of visions, by meticulously crafting today what are sure to become the heirlooms of tomorrow.
If you can dream it, we can design it. Designs are done together with your input and we’re excited to collaborate with you to create your perfect piece of jewelry.
As you Dream opens the doors to a world of creative ideas and inspiration. A place where you can bring to life your ultimate expression of yourself.
Design Process
Limited Editions and Remounting
Our Master Jewelers have years of experience, lifetimes of creativity and eons of nature’s handiwork. We offer a full complement of services to assist you in remounting your own precious Diamonds, Gemstones, and reusing your Old Gold.
Design
Schedule a design appointment with Valerie, an expert jewelry designer, that will transform your style and vision with her metalsmiths. If gemstones are apart of your vision, we will usually start the process by helping you choose the very best stone for you. We can use our fine quality gemstones, or we can use your precious gems. If we don’t have the perfect stone for you, we have a large pool of amazing resources that can locate exactly what you are looking for. The designer starts with a blank piece of paper and an idea.
Structure
The jeweler begins transforming the design into a precision hand created 3D wax model for casting into a framework structured of precious metal which will display the stones to their best advantage. Using saw, file and torch he cuts, shapes and solders a lattice work that is only the beginning of what we call the "jeweler's art."
Design Process Continued
Polishing
The mounting itself can be considered a work of art. And so, upon our Mountings, our polishers lavish their attention. By threading fine strands of rouge Impregnated linen through the mounting, each crevice~inside, underside and top can be polished. By caressing with brush and buff, the mounting receives an initial polish even before the first stone is set.
Setting
The setter performs the marriage of precious stone and precious metal. He mates the stones to their individual settings~turning one stone to pick up a highlight, adjusting another to display its finest color. The tools of the trade: the bur, stone and plier forever bind precious stone and gleaming gold or platinum.
Engraving
The piece of jewelry, which may seem finished, is not yet complete. Now, the engraver lends his creative signature by finely detailing the mounting. The artistry of a line, groove or pattern is cut into the metal, defining its shape and accentuating its form.
Final Polish
Yet again the piece is polished~the last of the five or six or, perhaps, more times that the piece has been smoothed and shined. Every surface gleams, every facet sparkles, every stone glows brilliantly.