Almond Blossom Necklace - Michael Michaud Jewellery

Almond Blossom Necklace

£245.00
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  • Handmade Botanical Jewellery

Picturesque images of Almond Blossoms have appeared in several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France. When van Gogh moved to Provence, he was looking for a brilliance and light that would wash out detail and simplify forms, reducing the world around him to the sort of pattern he admired in Japanese woodblocks. Arles, he said, was "the Japan of the South". Inspired by the works of great Japanese artists, such as Hiroshige, van Gogh started painting flowering trees. To him, they were special as they represented awakening and hope.

Materials: The Almond Blossom necklace is cast in hand patinated bronze with flowers featuring a matte white silver finish over bronze and hand painted dark pink highlights with yellow rice pearls.

Measures: 16" - 17" L (adjustable); Drop: 2"

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UK delivery:
Royal Mail - 24 Signed For: £4.50
FREE Royal Mail 24 Signed For delivery when you spend over £150

International delivery:
European delivery charge: £12
Rest of World delivery charge: £15
FREE International Delivery when you spend over £200

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Botanical Jewellery by Michael Michaud

The Michael Michaud Jewellery Collection, designed by Michael Michaud, is a world renowned collection of botanical jewellery. It captures the beauty and exquisite detail of nature using soft patinas on bronze accented with pearls, beads, glass and semi-precious stones. His exacting attention to detail gives you true to nature, botanical jewellery.

About our Jewellery

Our unique jewellery is made by creating moulds directly from botanical elements in a process similar to lost-wax casting. While traditional lost-wax casting begins with a hand-carved model of wax, Michael Michaud uses an actual leaf, branch or flower in place of the wax model. A mould is created around the botanical element and as it is heated the plant matter burns away and leaves behind a beautifully detailed mould of itself.

Portrait:

Michael Michaud

Artist Michael Michaud attended the Rochester Institute of Technology's prestigious school for American craftsmen, where he studied under designers Hans Christenson and Gary Griffin and became a master in the creation and manipulation of moulds. After graduating in 1980, Michael Michaud continued to perfect his craft while working under jewellery designers in the New York City area.

In 1991, he found himself working in New York City's flower district and living in the beautiful Connecticut countryside - his love of the natural beauty that surrounded him began to blend with his passion for creating jewellery which lead to the birth of Michael Michaud Jewellery.

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