Made to be kept.

My world has always existed somewhere between creativity and precision.

I paint. I am fascinated by colour, proportion and the way the smallest detail can completely change how something feels. At the same time, my work brought me deeply into the world of diamonds and fine jewellery — a world defined by extraordinary natural materials, minute differences and an almost obsessive attention to detail.

XVI grew where those worlds met.

It became a way to bring together the things I am naturally drawn to: art, jewellery, colour, design and objects made with intention.

I don’t believe fine jewellery should be dictated by a season.

I believe in forever pieces.

Pieces with enough restraint to remain beautiful decades from now, but enough character to become unmistakably yours.

Jewellery changes when it is lived in. It becomes connected to places, people, celebrations, losses, beginnings and ordinary days that only become important in retrospect.

Eventually, the value of a piece is no longer only in the stones or the metal.

It is in everything that happened while you were wearing it.

That is the kind of jewellery I want XVI to create.

XVI begins with one of the purest forms in jewellery: a continuous line of stones.

There is almost nowhere for unnecessary design to hide. What remains is proportion, light, material and craftsmanship.

That simplicity is precisely what makes it enduring.

One bracelet, configured around the person who will wear it — their choice of stone, scale and gold — without creating unnecessary versions of something that is already an icon.

Simple enough to wear every day.

Precious enough to keep forever.

And then there is Canvas & Carats, where my love for painting becomes something more personal.

I have always believed that we don’t simply look at art.

We absorb it.

A painting can stay with us because of something we cannot quite explain — a certain blue, a violent red, a moment of light, or a contrast that somehow speaks to something within us.

Colour carries meaning.

It can become a metaphor for passion, melancholy, freedom, desire, hope, chaos or serenity.

And that meaning changes with the person experiencing it.

Canvas & Carats was born from the idea of taking art beyond the canvas.

A painting no longer has to exist only on a wall.

Its colours can leave the canvas, become gemstones, touch the skin and move through life with the person wearing them.

Sapphire becomes more than blue.
Ruby becomes more than red.
Emerald becomes more than green.

Each colour carries something of the emotion and metaphor of the artwork it came from — transformed into something intimate and eventually entirely your own.

The intention is never to reproduce a painting in jewellery.

It is to capture something less tangible:

how the painting feels. Its rhythm. Its tension. Its quiet. Its intensity.

Translated into stone, those colours become part of the person wearing them.

The artwork changes with you — catching different light, collecting memories and acquiring meanings that could never have existed while it remained on the canvas.

From something you admire,
into something you live with.

Art you don’t simply look at.

Art you carry.