Gabrielle Artigas gold knot ring
Designer Gabrielle Artigas used a thin 14-karat-gold band to fashion a simple, but very pretty piece of jewelry. At $180 it's not breaking the bank either.
But I couldn't help but think of the girls behind downtown jewelry line Finn. Finn is known for its delicate pieces that beg to be layered one upon the next. I've been in their showroom (which is interior design porn, btw) and designer Soraya Silchenstedt has lamented about how the price of gold has shot up in the past few years thanks to the global recession, thus forcing her to raise the price of her pieces. (Quick econ lesson here, kids: Gold is considered to be a relatively stable asset, so when the stock market is shaky, people buy gold. The demand goes up, supply goes down and as a result the price rises. To think that I barely passed econ. Harrumph.) Check out her gold knot ring below:
Gold knot ring, $750 at finnjewelry.com
There's nothing new about a love knot--the simple design is meant to illustrate two souls bound by everlasting love (blech) and I guess this is what fashion and art is all about, how one designer interprets something versus the next. But I still find it too close for comfort. What about you?
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