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 jewellery designer

This website showcases a selection of the jewellery designed and made by Aurora Lombardo.

THE DESIGNER


Aurora Lombardo is an Italian designer and maker with a passion for jewellery. She is based in Cambridgeshire.

Largely self-taught, Aurora took up jewellery-making and glass fusing in 2002 after giving up her research work in biology to dedicate more time to her two young children.

She set up Silvervescence Designer Jewellery in September 2003 and since then, her small part-time business has been growing steadily.

Aurora is a member of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery, of the PMC Guild and a Licentiate Member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.

Her work has been featured in Craftsman Magazine (March 2007, Feb 2005) and it is displayed and for sale in selected jewellery shops and art galleries.

One of her silver and dichroic glass pieces, the “Trinacria” bangle, has been recently selected for exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London as part of their “Inspired by... ” 2006 event.

Handmade silver and dichroic glass bangle

"Trinacria" Bangle 2006


This year, her "Something Blooming" bracelet has been awarded the third prize in the Precious Metal Clay Design Competition Organized by the PMC Studio.

PMC silver bracelet. Award cerimony IJL 2007

"Something Blooming" 2007


THE DESIGNS

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Working mainly with silver and glass Aurora has developed her range of designs to encompass tastes from the classical through to the contemporary.

"My aim is to create unique pieces of jewellery that are elegant, colourful and confortable to wear" Aurora says. Her designs are influenced by natural forms, geometrical shapes and the vibrant mediterranean colours.

"Most my work is individually designed and one off", she explains, "I find inspiration in just about everything around me: from a landscape, an architectural feature or from a natural object. I delight in finding new ways of translating these ideas into new pieces that hopefully will become timeless jewels to treasure and wear for years to come".

Intensely captivated by light, reflections, and combinations of colours, Aurora makes wide use of contrasting textures and decorative details such as highlights of 9ct or 18ct gold and semiprecious stones. Many of her pieces are further embellished with Venetian Millefiori glass beads, tiny glass cylinders containing delicate flower resembling patterns. After slumping them in a kiln, Aurora adds them to her designs to give her work a colourful and feminine look. She explains: "I love the combination of silver and glass whether it is as delicate and decorative as the Millefiori or as bold and striking as the dichroic."

Aurora's best selling ranges of jewellery are characterised by stunning dichroic glass accents which she creates through a high temperature fusing process and uses as a medium to add colour and bring contrast to the rich metal qualities of the silver.

"Perhaps because of my lack of formal training or maybe because of my scientific background,” Aurora says, “I find myself spending countless hours at the bench playing around with glass and silver, experimenting with new materials, techniques, pushing them to the limit to see whether something new can be achieved.”

As a result, most of her creations stem from workshop experimentation rather than from detailed planned drawings, keeping Aurora’s jewellery in constant evolution.

All pieces of jewellery that are required to have a hallmark are independently assayed and hallmarked at the Birmingham Assay Office.

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24/11/2007

NEW!! The "Fiorato Range".

A new range of sterling silver and dichroic glass necklaces has been added to the online shop. As all the jewellery we make, each necklace in this range is as unique and individual as the person that will be wearing it !

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