Diamond and Yellow Gold Brutalist Earrings, 1960.

Unique Elements
We love a subversive spike of diamonds nestled in gold. Wear these to add a bit of the unexpected to your day to evening event.

Single Cut Single cut diamonds, also called melee, are round brilliant cuts that feature fewer than the standard number of facets, typically 16-18 facets instead of the standard 57 to 58. Diamonds of smaller sizes can be cut as single cuts because having fewer facets doesn’t noticeably affect the diamond’s appearance.

Full Cut Full cut diamonds: A round brilliant cut diamond can also be called a full cut diamond if it features the cutting standard of 57 or 58 facets.

White Gold White Gold use in jewelry is first associated with Art Deco, as yellow gold was out of fashion and it is an alternative to platinum, which had become increasingly more expensive after 1915. 18K gold is softer than platinum but has more than enough strength for everyday wear in fine jewelry, particularly in earrings, bracelets and necklaces.

Brutalism The term Brutalism comes from the use of 'beton brut’ French for 'raw concrete,' by modern architect and painter Le Corbusier, and refers to the architectural style of the 1950s and 1960s characterised by block-like forms. Once Brutalism gained mainstream popularity in the 1960s, houses including Tiffany and Co., Van Cleef and Arpels and Boucheron produced pieces clearly influenced by the movement. We characterize brutalist jewelry as featuring abstraction and asymmetry in design, although some pieces may features sharp angles and straight lines while others may be more amorphous shapes.