Ring from Patania Collection
I had lots of fun setting up this photo. I can’t remember who the hand model was but I borrowed a martini glass and shot this in front of a photograph taken from a magazine.
The Cathedral Ring pictured is a ring designed by my father in the 1960’s which I have included in my Patania Collection. The Patania Collection is a collection of classic designs taken from the three generations of Patania’s work. These are repeatable pieces which I inventory in a variety of materials. This allows me to provide my family’s designs in an affordable collection.
I have many pieces in the Patania Collection which I will post about over the next few weeks. I decided to put this collection together to keep popular designs available. I have a rich source of designs to pick from some of which have been made since the 1940’s. My challenge was to make them affordable in today’s market. Most of my family’s designs are fabricated pieces which means they are are entirely hand made. This was the way my grandfather worked his entire career. My father ran a workshop for much of his career and I even got a chance to do so early on. A workshop full of artisans is an expensive proposition these days which is why most hand made work on the market today is done over seas.
My way of making these pieces affordable was to have some of them cast by Racecar Jewelry run by Daniel Grandi. Daniel is a premier caster and can produce the finished I and my family require for our work. Finding Racecar to cast for me was a God send. There are many casters working today but my family’s designs were not made to be cast. The designs have large areas of open silver work which is exactly what a caster doesn’t want to do. Casting shiny surfaces is very difficult but, Daniel does it with consistency.
Cathedral Rings from Patania Collection
The Cathedral Ring is available in Topaz, Amethyst, Citrine, Ametrine and Smokey Quartz. It is a bold design which will get attention. It is definitely Patania.
It is available though the Arizona Inn, 2200 E. Elm, Tucson, AZ 85719, 520-325-1541. Or from my studio 520-795-0086.
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shelbyvision 12.03.08 at 2:05 pm
Interesting ring. I made one very similar way back when I was a student in the 1970’s. It was smaller and had a beautiful round dark green tourmaline. Unfortunately, all those big prongs shaded the stone so much that it looked black.