JEWELS BASEL
June 2024
Wildt’sches Haus
Petersplatz 13 · 4051 Basel
JEWELS BASEL 2023
Recap
The Jewelry & Art Show
JEWELS BASEL
IRYNA KARPOVA
VAINARD ZURICH
FABIAN BLASER
MICHAEL STÄHLI
THE COLLECTOR
& more
ALESCA - AUDIO FIDELITY
& ART
VOLTA ART FAIR
GRACELAND LONDON, MADDOX GALLERY
FABIO MELONE, ZURICH
A special addition to this year’s repertoire is the opening of the showcase to galleries and artists as well as a wonderful collaboration with the VOLTA Art Fair. This marks exciting, first-time expansions of JEWELS BASEL since its inception in March 2018.
FOUNDER
JEWELS BASEL was founded in March 2018 by Dr. Nadine Fink.
The exhibition started on a small scale in the Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois in 2018 and continues to be a growing success story.
THE SHOW
Wildt’sches Haus, with its imposing halls and spacious rooms, offers a most elegant setting. The baroque villa is situated very centrally in the picturesque heart of Basel and is a popular location. Renowned luxury brands such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Bulgari have already organized exclusive exhibitions and events in Wildt’sches Haus. The Villa Wildt’sches Haus is located in a prestigious location with three minutes’ walk from the Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois.
DESIGNERS
NANA FINK
NANA FINK, the founder of Jewels Basel, is an Art Jewelry Designer with a PhD in clinical psychology. She launched her brand in 2011 after returning from Harvard. NANA FINK gained the acclaim of international designers and retailers for her signature designs, their contemporary, sculptural aesthetics, and the supreme Swiss craftsmanship.
NANA FINK’s collections are sold at PAUL SMITH in London, at the Swiss National Museum and at Sylvie Saliba in Beirut and at the Nana Fink Showroom in Basel.
www.NanaFink.com
JEWELS BASEL
showcases carefully selected Art and Designer Jewels
and is known for its exceptional creations and the beauty of the show.
It’s a celebration of art, the finest craftsmanship, innovative design, and rarest gems.
SHAMBALLA JEWELS
SHAMBALLA JEWELS is a Danish luxury jewelry brand dedicated to creating iconic and highly personal jewelry for modern men and women. Inspired by the mythical Kingdom of Shamballa, SHAMBALLA JEWELS sophisticatedly combines ancient Eastern philosophy with refined Nordic craftsmanship. This intersection creates a basis for the most sublime handmade pieces of the highest quality and a transcendental message rooted in centuries-old ancient wisdom.
ROBERT PROCOP
One of the many remarkable achievements of Robert Procop is, that he became the CEO for the Crown jeweler of the United Kingdom, Asprey & Garrard and held this title for seven years.
Robert Procop’s devotion to philanthropy has also been his passion. He collaborates with Angelina Jolie and Brooke Shields and 100% of the profits from the sales of their collections are donated to charity. The Smithsonian Institute has honored Robert & Angelina by selecting one of their necklaces to be permanently placed in the museum.
www.RobertProcop.com
FABIAN BLASER
The goldsmith and gemologist has been the owner of his studio in Biel since 1999. He likes headwork and handwork, the sparkle of gemstones and the glow in the eyes of joyful customers. Fabian Blaser has won various design awards with his work.
From the idea to the finished piece of jewelry - made in Biel
Compared to the lifetime of gemstones, our studio in the middle of Biel's old town is very young. Here we advise you, hatch ideas, select metals and gemstones, and let you examine models. Sometimes we dry tears of joy at the handover.
www.fabianblaser.ch
IRYNA KARPOVA
Karpova Iryna an architect by education, Iryna has championed the best artistic traditions and techniques of Carl Faberge while opening new horizons for their application, creating her unique style. An avid observer of nature, she explores new inspirations and transforms them to the different trends of her "Romantic Avantgarde”.
One emphasis of Iryna`s work is on amber, born out of the four elements, and carrying the positive energy of the sun. It combines with gold, diamonds an ebony into her featured collection, “Organic Jewellery”, a collection of individual pieces meticulously handcrafted by her own team of expert craftsmen.
MICHAEL STÄHLI
Michael Stähli is a graduate Master's Goldsmith from Bern.
As a Gemologist GIA and a member of the Swiss Gemological Society, he is fascinated by gems. His work experience abroad in Vancouver, Manila, and Hongkong
has influenced his life and his creative work as a Jewellery
designer.
He also manages his well-known family-owned Company Stähli
Goldschmied in Bern.
His Motto:As a goldsmith: If your ideas can be transformed from your head
to your hands, it gives you satisfaction and happiness.
THE COLLECTOR
The COLLECTOR, Genève, is a Swiss luxury handbag designer that excels in producing small limited collections using only the highest quality skins. The brand has been collaborating with exceptional artists, such as Sylvie Fleury, John Armleder, Joana Vasconcelos, Gadha Amer, and Monica Bonvicini, and has created the BagART BigHEART charity auction raising more than CHF 300,000 to support education and children's health.
Its designs are inspired by nature, and the handbags enhance the beauty of the skin.
VAINARD
VAINARD stands for the finest masterpieces of jewelry craftsmanship with a wide variety of carefully selected white- and natural-coloured diamonds. Exceptional, exquisite and timeless – Each unique piece has a hint of modernity and a touch of eternity.
While the exclusive Boutique of VAINARD Fine Jewellery has settled in the historic heart of Zurich, their skillfully handcrafted diamond treasures are brought to life by the experienced hands of the family-run manufactory based in Germany. Here, the family has succeeded in seamlessly uniting all trades of high jewellery expertise, crafting and manufacturing in one unique jewellery manufactory - True identity “Made in Germany”
When selecting particularly exceptional quality and rarity, VAINARD Fine Jewellery therefore relies above all on an expertise that spans generations. A network of established, internationally verified sources, which has grown over decades, guarantees the selection of the most exquisite beauties of nature.
As a result, VAINARD Fine Jewellery has recently been privileged and able to create an outstanding, superb collection of pink diamonds from the Australian Argyle Mine - “The Last Pink Kangaroos”.
Exclusively limited and arranged into sets of harmonically matching colours, each set with unique characteristics - A feature which normally is impossible to achieve for pink diamonds due to their rarity.
Strong & Precious
Art Foundation Strong&Precious is a child of war – it came to light in April 2022 as an answer to an internal question: what can we personally do for Ukraine today? We, who have worked all our lives with jewelry – the very "beauty that saves the world"?
The mission of Strong&Precious is to acquaint the world with the origins and traditions of the jewelry school, to show the opulence of historical roots and the foundations of the jewelry style and craftsmanship going back centuries.
VOLTA Art Fair
VOLTA Basel, the international and established satellite fair coinciding with Art Basel, returns to the Swiss art capital. The fair emphasizes the art market’s diversity with a focus on the most recent developments, both nationally and internationally.
At JEWELS BASEL the VOLTA exhibitor Bechter Kastowsky Gallery is showing sculptures of Hanna Roeckle
bechter kastowsky galerie (Schaan/Vienna)
www.bechterkastowsky.com/kunstler/hanna-roeckle
The Schaan and Vienna-based bechter kastowsky gallery combines young and established artist positions, paintings and sculptures. Zurich-based artist Hanna Roeckle takes her inspiration from the crystalline world of nature and makes her own works shine in her unique color concept.
GRACELAND London
Graceland London is an artist based in London, UK. She studied Fine Art and History of Art at Hampstead Fine Arts, and a BA in 3D Digital Design and Animation at Greenwich University.
Graceland London’s brave use of bold and bright colours in her artwork provides an iron fist in a velvet glove. The colour in her work is juxtaposed by the darker themes she is set to exploring. Loading her artwork with an array of symbols, Graceland London invites her audience to really look at her work closely. Operating on the basis that the more you look the better you can see, Graceland London’s artwork is full of surprises.
Graceland London has exhibited her work internationally and is currently represented by Maddox Gallery, she exhibited at Art Basel for Miami Art Week, where she created a 10ft x 10ft interactive room.
Fabio Melone
Fabio Melone (born 1984 in Münsterlingen, Switzerland) is an artist and fashion designer living in Zurich, CH.
With a strong background in the fashion industry and fashion design, Melone's art explores the abstraction and deconstruction of the human body to play with physical boundaries. Melone does this by using found images from high end fashion magazines to create collages that can be used as a starting point for paintings, textile translations and then again for collages based on found images. Very rarely does a work find its final status, as Melone adds, removes and reuses his material. Melone's art explores themes of identity, emotion and the relationship between humanity and transience. With a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the renowned Zurich University of the Arts, Fabio Melone has an artistic training and several years of experience in fashion design for international companies. Melone has already presented his art in national and international galleries and exhibition spaces.
ALESCA
SPONSORS & PARTNERS
We are thrilled to announce that we will have exclusive Dinners with our sponsors and that we have the delicious support of Bachmann Confiserie. We will also be hosting a Ladies Brunch with Basel’s affluent jewelry and art connoisseurs.
The Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois is JEWELS BASEL Hospitality Partner.
Our Media Partner is COTE magazine and we are proud to be fully supported by the City Marketing of Basel .
DESIGNERS & INFLUENCERS
Selim Mouzannar, Tanya Dukes, Vanessa Del Moral & Regina Vogelsanger, Robert Procop and Eleonor Pichiotto
JEWELS BASEL
June 2024
Wildt’sches Haus
Petersplatz 13 · 4051 Basel
2023 Recap
The Jewelry & Art Show
JEWELS BASEL
IRYNA KARPOVA
VAINARD ZURICH
FABIAN BLASER
MICHAEL STÄHLI
THE COLLECTOR
& more
ALESCA - AUDIO FIDELITY
& ART
VOLTA ART FAIR
GRACELAND LONDON, MADDOX GALLERY
FABIO MELONE, ZURICH
A special addition to this year’s repertoire is the opening of the showcase to galleries and artists as well as a wonderful collaboration with the VOLTA Art Fair. This marks exciting, first-time expansions of JEWELS BASEL since its inception in March 2018.
FOUNDER
JEWELS BASEL was founded in March 2018 by Dr. Nadine Fink.
The exhibition started on a small scale in the Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois in 2018 and continues to be a growing success story.
THE SHOW
Wildt’sches Haus, with its imposing halls and spacious rooms, offers a most elegant setting. The Baroque villa is situated very centrally in the picturesque heart of Basel and is a popular location. Renowned luxury brands such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Bulgari have already organized exclusive exhibitions and events in Wildt’sches Haus. The Villa Wildt’sches Haus is located in a prestigious location with three minutes’ walk from the Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois.
NANA FINK
NANA FINK, the founder of Jewels Basel, is an Art Jewelry Designer with a PhD in clinical psychology. She launched her brand in 2011 after returning from Harvard. NANA FINK gained the acclaim of international designers and retailers for her signature designs, their contemporary, sculptural aesthetics, and the supreme Swiss craftsmanship.
NANA FINK’s collections are sold at PAUL SMITH in London, at the Swiss National Museum and at Sylvie Saliba in Beirut and at the Nana Fink Showroom in Basel.
www.NanaFink.com
JEWELS BASEL
showcases carefully selected Art and Designer Jewels
and is known for its exceptional creations and the beauty of the show.
It’s a celebration of the finest craftsmanship, innovative design, and rarest gems.
SHAMBALLA JEWELS
SHAMBALLA JEWELS is a Danish luxury jewelry brand dedicated to creating iconic and highly personal jewelry for modern men and women. Inspired by the mythical Kingdom of Shamballa, SHAMBALLA JEWELS sophisticatedly combines ancient Eastern philosophy with refined Nordic craftsmanship. This intersection creates a basis for the most sublime handmade pieces of the highest quality and a transcendental message rooted in centuries-old ancient wisdom.
ROBERT PROCOP
One of the many remarkable achievements of Robert Procop is, that he became the CEO for the Crown jeweler of the United Kingdom, Asprey & Garrard and held this title for seven years.
Robert Procop’s devotion to philanthropy has also been his passion. He collaborates with Angelina Jolie and Brooke Shields and 100% of the profits from the sales of their collections are donated to charity. The Smithsonian Institute has honored Robert & Angelina by selecting one of their necklaces to be permanently placed in the museum.
www.RobertProcop.com
FABIAN BLASER
The goldsmith and gemologist has been the owner of his studio in Biel since 1999. He likes headwork and handwork, the sparkle of gemstones and the glow in the eyes of joyful customers. Fabian Blaser has won various design awards with his work.
From the idea to the finished piece of jewelry - made in Biel
Compared to the lifetime of gemstones, our studio in the middle of Biel's old town is very young. Here we advise you, hatch ideas, select metals and gemstones, and let you examine models. Sometimes we dry tears of joy at the handover.
www.fabianblaser.ch
IRYNA KARPOVA
Karpova Iryna an architect by education, Iryna has championed the best artistic traditions and techniques of Carl Faberge while opening new horizons for their application, creating her unique style. An avid observer of nature, she explores new inspirations and transforms them to the different trends of her "Romantic Avantgarde”.
One emphasis of Iryna`s work is on amber, born out of the four elements, and carrying the positive energy of the sun. It combines with gold, diamonds an ebony into her featured collection, “Organic Jewellery”, a collection of individual pieces meticulously handcrafted by her own team of expert craftsmen.
MICHAEL STÄHLI
Michael Stähli is a graduate Master's Goldsmith from Bern.
As a Gemologist GIA and a member of the Swiss Gemological Society, he is fascinated by gems. His work experience abroad in Vancouver, Manila, and Hongkong
has influenced his life and his creative work as a Jewellery
designer.
He also manages his well-known family-owned Company Stähli
Goldschmied in Bern.
His Motto:As a goldsmith: If your ideas can be transformed from your head
to your hands, it gives you satisfaction and happiness.
THE COLLECTOR
The Collector, Genève, is a Swiss luxury handbag designer that excels in producing small limited collections using only the highest quality skins. The brand has been collaborating with exceptional artists, such as Sylvie Fleury, John Armleder, Joana Vasconcelos, Gadha Amer, and Monica Bonvicini, and has created the BagART BigHEART charity auction raising more than CHF 300,000 to support education and children's health.Its designs are inspired by nature, and the handbags enhance the beauty of the skin.
VAINARD
VAINARD stands for the finest masterpieces of jewelry craftsmanship with a wide variety of carefully selected white- and natural-coloured diamonds. Exceptional, exquisite and timeless – Each unique piece has a hint of modernity and a touch of eternity.
While the exclusive Boutique of VAINARD Fine Jewellery has settled in the historic heart of Zurich, their skillfully handcrafted diamond treasures are brought to life by the experienced hands of the family-run manufactory based in Germany. Here, the family has succeeded in seamlessly uniting all trades of high jewellery expertise, crafting and manufacturing in one unique jewellery manufactory - True identity “Made in Germany”
When selecting particularly exceptional quality and rarity, VAINARD Fine Jewellery therefore relies above all on an expertise that spans generations. A network of established, internationally verified sources, which has grown over decades, guarantees the selection of the most exquisite beauties of nature.
As a result, VAINARD Fine Jewellery has recently been privileged and able to create an outstanding, superb collection of pink diamonds from the Australian Argyle Mine - “The Last Pink Kangaroos”.
Exclusively limited and arranged into sets of harmonically matching colours, each set with unique characteristics - A feature which normally is impossible to achieve for pink diamonds due to their rarity.
Strong & Precious
Art Foundation Strong&Precious is a child of war – it came to light in April 2022 as an answer to an internal question: what can we personally do for Ukraine today? We, who have worked all our lives with jewelry – the very "beauty that saves the world"?
The mission of Strong&Precious is to acquaint the world with the origins and traditions of the jewelry school, to show the opulence of historical roots and the foundations of the jewelry style and craftsmanship going back centuries.
VOLTA Art Fair
VOLTA Basel, the international and established satellite fair coinciding with Art Basel, returns to the Swiss art capital. The fair emphasizes the art market’s diversity with a focus on the most recent developments, both nationally and internationally.
At JEWELS BASEL the VOLTA exhibitor Bechter Kastowsky Gallery is showing sculptures of Hanna Roeckle
bechter kastowsky galerie (Schaan/Vienna)
www.bechterkastowsky.com/kunstler/hanna-roeckle
The Schaan and Vienna-based bechter kastowsky gallery combines young and established artist positions, paintings and sculptures. Zurich-based artist Hanna Roeckle takes her inspiration from the crystalline world of nature and makes her own works shine in her unique color concept.
GRACELAND London
Graceland London is an artist based in London, UK. She studied Fine Art and History of Art at Hampstead Fine Arts, and a BA in 3D Digital Design and Animation at Greenwich University.
Graceland London’s brave use of bold and bright colours in her artwork provides an iron fist in a velvet glove. The colour in her work is juxtaposed by the darker themes she is set to exploring. Loading her artwork with an array of symbols, Graceland London invites her audience to really look at her work closely. Operating on the basis that the more you look the better you can see, Graceland London’s artwork is full of surprises.
Fabio Melone
Fabio Melone (born 1984 in Münsterlingen, Switzerland) is an artist and fashion designer living in Zurich, CH.
With a strong background in the fashion industry and fashion design, Melone's art explores the abstraction and deconstruction of the human body to play with physical boundaries. Melone does this by using found images from high end fashion magazines to create collages that can be used as a starting point for paintings, textile translations and then again for collages based on found images. Very rarely does a work find its final status, as Melone adds, removes and reuses his material. Melone's art explores themes of identity, emotion and the relationship between humanity and transience. With a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the renowned Zurich University of the Arts, Fabio Melone has an artistic training and several years of experience in fashion design for international companies. Melone has already presented his art in national and international galleries and exhibition spaces.
ALESCA
SPONSORS & PARTNERS
We are thrilled to announce that we will have exclusive Dinners with our sponsors and that we have the delicious support of Bachmann Confiserie. We will also be hosting a Ladies Brunch with Basel’s affluent art and jewelry connoisseurs. .
The Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois is JEWELS BASEL's Hospitality Partner.
Our Media Partner is COTE magazine and we are proud to be fully supported by the City Marketing of Basel .
DESIGNERS & INFLUENCERS
Selim Mouzannar, Tanya Dukes, Vanessa Del Moral & Regina Vogelsanger, Robert Procop and Eleonor Pichiotto
JEWELS BASEL PARTNERS