MAHNAZ COLLECTION

Our JEWELRY AND WATCH collections are for you - DESIGN OR ART ORIENTED, with your own individual style. YOU ARE independent-minded jewelry enthusiasts and collectorS who find SUBLIME beauty IN UNIQUE JEWELS AND Vintage TIMEPIECES. VERSATILE AND WEARABLE, THEY ARE for all of us drawn to THE EXCEPTIONAL CRAFTSMANSHIP OF YESTERDAY, WHERE THE SLOW HAND OF THE MAKER reigned supreme.

MOST OF OUR COLLECTION WAS made since 1960. These works have been made by FORWARD-THINKING, EXPERIMENTAL, AND OFTEN CELEBRATED designers, artists, gold/silversmiths, and watchmakers. THEY MAY BE BRANDS and HERITAGE houses YOU KNOW WELL, OR INDEPENDENT MAKERS WE GUARANTEE will EARN YOUR DEVOTION BECAUSE THEIR OFTEN TRANSFORMATIONAL JEWELS show conceptual excellence, technical virtuosity, and material boldness.

MAHNAZ COLLECTION IS especially recognized for expertise in DIVERSE FORMS OF MODERNIST jewelry made by forward-looking CREATORS, from North and South America, Indigenous peoples Of the americaN southwest, and from Britain, ITALY, GERMANY, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, and the Nordic Countries.

covering DISTINCT geographIES, from Helsinki to Hopi, OUR COLLECTIONS ARE YET KNITTED TOGETHER. THEY ARE INSPIRED BY NATURE and LANDSCAPES, ANCIENT MATERIALS LIKE RICH YELLOW GOLD, EARTHY NATURAL STONES SUCH AS TURQUOISE, LAPIS, RHODOCHROSITE, AGATES, AS WELL AS ROUGH DIAMONDS, BAROQUE PEARLS, GREEN TOURMALINES, AND MORE. In the late 1960s and 1970s, jewelers connected with Nature directly, LEAVING GEMSTONES UNFACETED AND FREE FORM. THEY LEFT DIAMONDS FOR AMETHYSTS AND CITRINES. THESE DECADES CONTINUE TO HOLD OUR FASCINATION IN FASHION MANY DECADES LATER. They are, indeed, about style.

We are known as a significant collector of jewelry made by Maison Chaumet during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, designed by FAMED Pierre Sterle and HOUSE DESIGNER René Morin, AMONG OTHERS. Some of it WAS for the unique L’Arcade collection, appealing to the more on-trend, design-conscious, younger buyers who emerged in the 1970s. THIS HOUSE, KNOWN FOR ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE HOUSE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, USED BOTH ITS EXCLUSIVE, TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES AND RADICAL 1970s DESIGNS IN HEAVILY TEXTURED GOLD AND MIRROR POLISHED GOLD TO CREATE JEWELS THAT WILL RESONATE FOREVER.

Mahnaz Collection started collecting and selling UNIQUE jewelry and timepieces TOGETHER at the gallery’s inception IN 2013. Whenever a jeweler was a gifted artist who also made watches, Or vice versa (Think Gilbert Albert for Patek Phillipe and Omega, Andrew Grima just once for Omega… there is a short list of legends); or who used hardstones and unique gems to design and embellish their rich gold watchbands (think Piaget in the 1970s); or who expressed their unique design sensibility in both jewelry and watches, WE COLLECTED THEIR WORKS. WE CELEBRATE THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND HAVE MADE POSSIBLE NEW FUNCTIONS AND DESIGN AESTHETICS IN THE WORLD OF TIMEPIECES.

We are known for the DEPTH AND QUALITY of our design, TECHNICAL, and cultural research, OUR ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS, AND EXHIBITIONS, all OF WHICH are essential to providing the true, authentic jewel or timepiece to you.

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OUR JEWELS AND TIMEPIECES HAVE STOOD, AND WILL STAND, THE TEST OF TIME. OUR JEWELS ARE BEST KEPT in the Family OR DONATED TO MUSEUMS WHERE MANY MORE PEOPLE CAN ENJOY THEIR BEAUTY AND STORIES. THEY WILL CARRY FORWARD PRovenance, YOUR OWN STORIES. AND THE MEMORY OF YOUR BODY. FOR AN OBJECT, AS THE GREAT JEWELER ART SMITH SO WELL SAID, ONLY TRULY BECOMES A JEWEL WHEN IT IS WORN ON THE HUMAN BODY.