More is not enough!

Iris Apfel (born Astoria, Queens, New York, 29 August 1921) is an American businesswoman, former interior designer, and fashion icon.She studied art history at New York University and attended art school at the University of Wisconsin. As a young woman Barrel worked for Women's Wear Daily and for interior designer Elinor Johnson. She also was an assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman.

In 1948 she married Carl Apfel. Two years later they launched the textile firm Old World Weavers and ran it until they retired in 1992. During this time, Iris Apfel took part in many design restoration projects, including work at the White House for nine presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton.
Iris Apfel still consults, and also lectures about style and other fashion topics.

In 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City premiered an exhibition about the fashionable style of Iris Apfel entitled Rara Avis (Rare Bird): The Irreverent Iris Apfel. The success of the exhibit was profound that planted the seed for traveling versions of the exhibit displayed at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach;the Nassau County Museum in Nassau County, New York; and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach is in the conceptual phase of a 93,000 square feet (8,600 m2) new building that will include a dedicated gallery for the clothes, accessories and furnishings of Iris Apfel.

































































Wonderful style icon Iris Apfel talks about the importance of accessories !!!
Have a look at her interview here

Fall, leaves, fall

"Fall, leaves, fall'


Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day."


Emily Jane Brontë





























18k gold necklace with Rutilated Quartz and Rubellites
Design: Christine v.Schönburg

latest rings

18k gold ring with Aquamarine
Design: Christine v.Schönburg



































Sterling silver and 18k gold ring with Amazonite.
Design: Christine v.Schönburg































18k gold ring with diamond and pearls.
Design: Christine v.Schönburg

Magical Chasing

CHASING HAS BEEN USED IN JEWELRY FOR AGES AND ALLOWS US TO CREATE WONDERFUL THINGS, SUCH AS THE RING Soleil d'Automne FOR CHANEL. HAVE A LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL WORK OF CHASING HERE

It's one of my favorite techniques and I use it a lot, specially to create the leaves for my collection: "" A Flower is a Leaf mad with Love " :





































































All jewellery shown above, designed and made by Christine v. Schönburg

Amazing Craftsmanship

I think one of the most beautiful and fascinating things one can see is a true craftsman at work,.
The art, the dedication, the attention to the details, the savoir faire and the love craftsmen put into their work is just so inspiring and wonderful!
Watching this video made me think how much I love my profession!

L'école Maison van Cleef et Arpels

MAISON VAN CLEEF & ARPELS CREATES A SCHOOL
in order to cast a light on the very secretive world of jewelry.

To give an insight and understanding,
to share the spirit of jewelry, in a nutshell,
to reveal the essence of this exceptional craft.

L'Ecole offers a unique opportunity to discover and learn for those who are passionate about jewelry, lovers of beauty or simply curious and anyone who wishes to acquire inside knowledge of this fascinating world.

If you want to know more about this wonderful initiative or to enrol in their newest courses, have a look here
and watch Marie Vallanet-Delhom, the school's directors, explaining why and what for they decided to create the school.

"The straight line is ungodly."

Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (December 15, 1928 – February 19, 2000) was a Austrian painter and architect. Born in Vienna, he became one of the best-known contemporary Austrian artists, although controversial, by the end of the 20th century.
Hundertwasser's original and unruly artistic vision expressed itself in pictorial art, environmentalism, philosophy, and design of facades, postage stamps, flags, and clothing (among other areas). The common themes in his work utilised bright colours, organic forms, a reconciliation of humans with nature, and a strong individualism, rejecting straight lines.
He remains sui generis, although his architectural work is comparable to Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) in its use of biomorphic forms and the use of tile. He was also inspired by the art of the Vienna Secession, and by the Austrian painters Egon Schiele (1890–1918) and Gustav Klimt (1862–1918).
He was fascinated by spirals, and called straight lines "the devil's tools".
From the early 1950s he increasingly focused on architecture. This began with manifestos, essays and demonstrations.














In the Mouldiness Manifesto he first claimed the "Window Right": "A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door."














"I should perhaps like to be known as the magician of vegetation or something similar. We are in need of magic
I fill a picture until it is full with magic, as one fills up a glass with water.
Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful."


















"The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line. In it, God and the human spirit are less at home..."


















































Earrings, necklace and rings shown above were designed and handmade by Christine von Schönburg.