Hemmerle

Hemmerle is a German jewellery house based in Munich founded in 1893.[1]

Background

Anton and Joseph Hemmerle established Hemmerle in 1893, when they made medals for the Royal Bavarian Court (Royal warrant of appointment, Bavarian Order of Merit).[2] The Hemmerle boutique on Maximillianstrasse originally opened in 1904 and remains there today.[3]

Stefan Hemmerle, Joseph's grandson, manages the company along with his wife Sylveli. Christian and Yasmin Hemmerle, their son and daughter-in-law, manage design and product development.[4]

Stefan Hemmerle in 1995 designed a ring for the wife of a Munich art collector, in response to her practice of wearing Berlin iron jewellery (which Germans received in exchange for donating their gold and silver jewels toward funding the War of Liberation). He set a diamond in textured iron rather than in gold or platinum. The combination of common metal with a precious stone was unusual.[5]

Design

Hemmerle jewels use gemstones including orange-pink sapphires, green diamonds or conch pearls[6] often set in unorthodox materials such as copper, steel or wood.[7][8] Each piece is designed bespoke. The family import materials including South China Sea Melo pearls[9] or blue aquamarines from Brazil’s Santa Maria mines.

Hemmerle’s styles include the tassel earring, creating using a traditional Austrian technique of knitting together cut stones often in bright colours into invisibly stitched strands.[10]

Hemmerle’s harmony bangle was included the permanent collection of the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in October 2010.[11]

In 2011 they co-wrote a book ‘‘Delicious Jewels’’ with the chef and author Tamasin Day-Lewis, published by Prestel Publishing.[12]

Hemmerle's Bangle Bracelet, "Egyptian Story", 2012, was included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York in January 2013.[13]

In 2014 they designed a jewellery collection consisting of twelve brooches, two pairs of earrings, a necklace and a ring, themed with by fruits, seeds, leaves and trees.[14]

The company also published a poetry book, Nature’s Jewels.[15] through the art-book publisher Mack [16] with poems by Greta Bellamacina.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Newman, Jill ‘’ Jewelry: Forging Ahead’’ ‘’[Robb Report]’’, 1 March 2010
  2. ↑ Bayerische Staatsregierung [Bayerische Staatsregierung]
  3. ↑ Becker, Vivienne ‘‘The Cult Shop-Hemmerle’’ [Financial Times How to Spend It]’’, London, 8 July 2010
  4. ↑ Forsyth, Liz ‘‘Their Dark Materials” “[Intelligent Life]”, Winter 2009
  5. ↑ Lankarani, Nazanin ‘‘Dedication to Originality and Boldness’’] ‘‘[International Herald Tribune]’’, 20 May 2010
  6. ↑ Bari, Hubert. ‘‘The Pink Pearl: A Natural Treasure of the Caribbean’’. Skira, 2007, p.112
  7. ↑ Newman, Jill ‘’Robb Report’’ Retrieved 14 August 2012
  8. ↑ Peltason, Ruth. ‘‘Jewelry from nature’’. Thames & Hudson, 2010, p.129
  9. ↑ Bari, Hubert. ‘‘Pearls’’. Skira, 2010, p.177
  10. ↑ Diamond, Jessia “[Wallpaper]”, 5 July 2012
  11. ↑ Neel Julia ‘’Best of Bavaria’’ [Vogue], 30 June 2010
  12. ↑ Ballentine, Sandra ‘‘A Profile in Style- Christian and Yasmin Hemmerle’’ ‘‘[The New York Times]’’, New York, 28 April 2011
  13. ↑ https://collection.cooperhewitt.org//objects/18797511/
  14. ↑ Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop "[BlouinArtinfo]", 17 March 2014
  15. ↑ http://www.hemmerle.com/projects/natures-jewels/
  16. ↑ http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/newbooks/
  17. ↑ http://gretabellamacina.com/bio.html

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