As you know, at The Shop each year, we add a rotating range of new designers to our carefully curated selection of jewellery. And so, to highlight the talented designers we carry, we're bringing you this series to showcase the créateurs we're currently working with. This week, we're featuring the sleek, precise and architectural fine jewellery of Xavier Civera.
Xavier is especially dear to us, for we know him personally, as he is based in Valencia, Spain, where we've been living for the past three and a half years. His work is a true labour of love, each design hand sketched with great thought and care.
Xavier Civera got his start in art, working in sculpture. It was in this world, collaborating with artists and fashion designers that Civera conceived of his first collection, launching his eponymous label 1996. The designer’s interest in fashion and architecture informed his aesthetic principles and personal philosophy, resulting in jewellery that is known for its precise design, pared-down straight lines, and a special focus on simplicity and formal purity. Direct, yet at once delicate.
Civera's designs are created in gold and diamonds, with particular attention to technical perfection and finish, always handcrafted but with a highly industrial aesthetic that makes these pieces truly unique. Grounded in a profound sense of beauty, these contemporary yet timeless pieces are conceived for the cosmopolitan woman of today who loves the simplicity and sophistication of pure straight lines.
Xavier Civera is a regular collaborator with the fashion designers Devota & Lomba, who present his work in their fashion shows in Cibeles and Madrid. His jewellery has also been seen on the stage in plays, and in the cinema, most notably Pedro Almodóvar’s Academy Award-winning film Talk to Her.
THIS 18K ROSE GOLD & DIAMOND PENDANT NECKLACE IS A PART OF THE VARESE COLLECTION, WHICH DRAWS INSPIRATION FROM INDUSTRIALISATION COMBINED WITH PRECIOUS GEMSTONES. FEATURES A SINGLE CYLINDER OF 18K ROSE GOLD ENCIRCLED BY PAVÉ BRILLIANT CUT DIAMONDS HANGING OFF A DELICATE 18K ROSE GOLD CHAIN.