One of the beauties of my job in gemstones world is that I learn or see new things everyday and I never get bored. Each gem has its own character, beauty and mystery. Some of them have amazing colour, some showing off with their colour-changing and some with their inclusions which I call hidden secrets.
Stone Sizes and shapes are other interesting aspects of the gems .Creative stone cutters with a good taste, sometimes come up with interesting ideas which help them to create a piece of art.
This morning, one of my diamond dealer friends sent me his diamond stock inventory and in that list there was a very interesting fancy shape diamond. This GIA certified, 3.03 carat diamond is F colour grade and its clarity grade is VS1 and has a horse shape. If you like horses I should say this horse can be a very nice piece of jewellery and you can keep it in the family for generations.
Measurements: 7.55mm x 10.69mm x 6.13mm
Regards,
Faraz
Here is the new member of our Golbarg collection, Golbarg Petite.Golbarg Petite is a very delicate, beautiful and elegant pendant that you can wear every day as well as for special occasions.like the rest of Golbarg collections only 99 copies of this piece will ever be made and its details are as followed:
- 18K yellow gold
- Approximately 1.45 ct of excellent quality Tsavorite Garnet with fantastic cut & color
- Approximately 25 mm diameter
- It comes with 18 inch / 46 cm , 18K fine yellow gold chain
You can check it out on our website : http://www.toranjlondon.com/collections/golbarg/golbarg-pendant-1.html
Regards,
Sara Peymanpour
Posted on: August 16th, 2009 Tsavorite
Tsavorite is a young gemstone from Garnet family with a very long history, which was discovered by Campbell R. Bridges in 1967. This Scottish-born geologist was looking for gemstones in north-east of Tanzania, near the famous Tsavo national park where is the habitat of snakes & lions, when he discovered a potato-like object with beautiful green grains.
The newly discovered gemstone had extraordinarily beautiful vivid green colour, great transparency & excellent brilliance. Campbell bridges started looking for Tsavorite deposits in Kenya and to protect himself from wild animals he began by living in a tree-house and He used a python to stand guard over his cache of coloured gems. In 1974, Tiffany & Co introduced Tsavorite in USA and then to International markets.
Unfortunately, Campbell Bridges was killed by a group of people armed with arrows, spears and machetes last week near Tsavo National Park, in an apparent dispute over mining rights in southeast Kenya.
Why Tsavorite is so desirable? First of all, it is for its vivid, radiant green which is more consistent in colour than Emerald. Secondly, Tsavorite is valuable because of its great brilliance that is far more than Emerald.
This gemstone, unlike Emerald, does not need any oil treatment. Compared to Emerald, Tsavorite is less likely to crack or break and therefore is more wearable. It also has a relatively more reasonable price.
Rough Tsavorites follow one of these two routs depending on their size: Small rough goes to cut in Thiland, India and Sri Lanka but large fine rough goes to German cutting centres in Idar-Oberstein. Tsavorites over 3 carats are rare & very valuable.
Tsavorites we have used in our Golbarg collection were sourced from Idar-Oberstein in Germany and are from excellent colour, cut, clarity and lustre. They were matched and cut specially for Toranj London.
Regards,
Faraz Dalaee
How time flies when you love what you do! It has been a year since Toranj London was born and I look back with pleasure and see what we have done in this very short time:
- Created three very successful collections: Ancient Blue, Golbarg & Shah Abbasi
- Exhibited at the Tower of London and next to Crown Jewells as a part of first Coutts London Jewellery Week. We were so privileged to have our first showcase in such a great venue and received great feedback on our pieces.
- Our Golbarg Necklace was a finalist in Adventurous Moissanite competition and we received the stones needed to make the piece – worth £500 – as an award from Charles & Colvard.
- Our Golbarg Ring was selected as a finalist in Holts Academy Design Award 2008.
- Exhibited at International Jewellery London 2008, the UK’s only dedicated jewellery event, where the most talented, cutting edge British and International designers and manufacturers are hand selected to create a showcase. Our collections received a fantastic amount of interest from both public and buyers.
- Charles & Colvard showcased our Golbarg necklace alongside other four shortlisted pieces at International Jewellery London 2008.
- Collaborated with British Museum and they showed and sold our pieces alongside their Babylon exhibition. Then we designed Shah Abbasi collection especially for their exhibition “Shah Abbas: The remaking of Iran” which was showed and sold by British Museum.
- Our online boutique was launched.
- Our client list grew rapidly.
- Started a group page and a fan page on Facebook.
- And right now we are working on a few new collections with younger & more contemporary designs, lower price tags and more suitable for everyday wear. They will be launched soon.
Well, we had a fantastic year and would like to share our joy & happiness with you by sending you a gift.
We have a “10% off” gift voucher for each and every one of you. This gift voucher will take 10% off your next purchase, no matter how many pieces you buy, and it is valid until 25 December 2009.
To receive your gift please sign up to our website at www.toranjlondon.com or directly to our Log In page and create an account, a gift voucher will be sent to your email address shortly. Please remember to sign up for your gift before Monday 31 August 2009. Those who have an account already, will receive their gifts next week.
Thank you very much for supporting us & have a nice weekend.
Regards,
Sara Peymanpour
One of the most difficult jobs to do when you design a product is to choose or design a suitable packaging for it. As a good industrial designer – Well, I still design & make all sorts of things, trying to stay true to my background – I believe that packaging is 50% of any product you sell, buy or design. So from the first day of establishing Toranj London, Faraz Dalaee & I were looking for an appropriate range of boxes for our collections; something elegant, attractive and durable.
A jewellery box first of all should be able to protect the jewellery piece. With these days of online shopping, it should be strong enough to survive the shipping process and reach the recipient in perfect conditions. Then it should be beautiful, inviting and graceful. You should also have a good feeling when you touch and smell it. We also wanted a long lasting packaging, a box that our clients would keep and reuse.
In total, because your product’s packaging is your brand’s ambassador and plays a very important role in brand identity, we were looking for something that would reflect Toranj London’s values.
And last September, after a long time of looking at every possible corner of every trade show, we finally found what we were looking for; these delicious cinnamon suede boxes. They are unique, exciting, soft, heavy and presentable. They show our pieces in the best way possible & we waited four long months to receive them.
I hope you like them as much as we do.
Regards,
Sara Peymanpour
