AMAZONA : Talk about a power bracelet. Wrap this piece from Brazilian designer Vancox’s Amazona collection around your wrist once and you won’t want to take it off. Earthy-looking feldspar, a neutral-colored gemstone with pink, cosmetic-like overtones found deep within the earth’s crust, is accented with cognac diamonds and surrounded by a constellation of smaller feldspar, all set in 18-karat yellow gold. The bracelet comes with an extender and fastens with a lobster-claw clasp.
Although Vancox, a Brazilian jewelry house founded in 1982, has established an international reputation for crafting luscious gemstone jewelry, it isn't just the quality and attention to detail that the company strives for. Instead, it is the aesthetics. Vancox uses many different stone cuts and different gold surfaces and textures to add interest to the pieces, and makes use of pavé-set gemstones, a type of setting used for diamonds and also for colored gemstones, in which small stones are set very close together.
