The “Grace Diamond,” a 1.79-carat, fancy-vivid-purplish-pink diamond being exhibited by Maison … [+]
Maison Mazerea, a brand new luxurious diamond model, has devoted a novel one-of-a-kind fancy coloured diamond in honor of Princess Grace of Monaco. Referred to as the “Grace Diamond,” the Fancy Vivid Purplish-Pink gem is a part of an unique collaboration with the Princess Grace Basis.
The Grace Diamond is one among that final 5 diamonds from the exhausted Argyle Mine within the distant northwest a part of Australia. Throughout its 15-year operation, which resulted in 2020, the Argyle Mine produced greater than 90% of the world’s pink and crimson diamonds, among the many most respected and rarest gems on this planet. The square-radiant-shaped, 1.79-carat, fancy-vivid-purplish-pink diamond was initially known as the Stella Diamond. It was bought in 2021 by Burgundy Diamond Mines, a Perth-based diamond mining firm that owns the Maison Mazerea model.
“It’s completely applicable that an illustrious star akin to Stella ought to be renamed and transcend into the timeless the Aristocracy of the Grace Diamond,” mentioned Peter Ravenscroft, CEO of Burgundy Diamond Mines.
Ravenscroft mentioned the Grace Diamond will probably be exhibited in successive jewellery designs by among the world’s main or rising designers, beneath the Maison Mazerea model. For its debut look, Maison Mazerea has partnered with famend Place Vendôme jewellery designer, Lorenz Bäumer on a jewel known as “La Vie en Rose,” which is anticipated to be unveiled at an occasion in Paris on July 1 and in New York someday in November.
“As we work with the Princess Grace Basis and chosen jewellery designers on future jewellery items to showcase the Grace Diamond, we pays enduring tribute to each Princess Grace and to the historic significance of this stone,” Ravenscroft mentioned.
Maison Mazerea is called after Jules Cardinal Mazarin, a seventeenth Century Italian Cardinal, diplomat, and politician who served because the chief minister to King Louis XIV of France. He amassed probably the most precious collections of jewels and diamonds of his time. Eighteen diamonds, often called the “Mazarin diamonds” turned the inspiration of the French Crown Jewels.
Maison Mazerea is described by Ravenscroft as “the world’s first Haute Diamanterie model,” which he describes as a brand new time period that’s reviving conventional approaches to diamond preparation from the seventeenth century.
“Consider Haute Joaillerie and Haute Horlogerie as parallels. Each discuss of distinctive creations made with the best high quality supplies and the best ranges of expertise with exacting consideration to element,” Ravenscroft instructed Forbes. “Haute Diamanterie is about authenticity, craftsmanship and individuality. Maison Mazerea is not going to be the one home to have the ability to declare the requirements of Haute Diamanterie, however it’s actually main the way in which.”
The acquisition of this uncommon pink diamond from the Argyle Mine and the partnership with the Princess Grace Foundation are a part of a broader technique to make use of Maison Mazerea as the only real supply of Fancy yellow diamonds from the Ellendale Diamond Mine in Western Australia, owned by Burgundy Diamonds.
Burgundy additionally took possession of the slicing and sharpening amenities and skilled staff from Argyle Pink diamonds operation. Every diamond from the mine will probably be minimize and polished by the diamantaires in Australia “in a novel method, utilizing heritage-inspired cuts and faceting that maximize the pure great thing about the stone, whatever the pure imperfections that they might embrace,” Ravenscroft says.
These diamonds will then be bought completely by Maison Mazerea.
This vertical integration of mining, slicing and promoting uncommon fancy-colored diamonds serves as the inspiration of this “end-to-end” technique being developed by Burgundy.
