Expert craftsmanship

Adele is an old fashioned, apprenticeship trained gemstone setter, which involves intense concentration and no room for error. She has been professionally setting gemstones for 20 years. The skills gained over this time are reflected in the intricate enduring jewellery you see here.
Adele currently works from her solar powered tiny home in the thick of the rimu, kahikatea and kāmahi forest near Hokitika.

Collections

Botanical collection

Gemstones as petals, yellow diamonds as pollen. Colours bursting with all the... 

Midwinter collection

Deep sapphires, frosty aquamarines and lots of stars. Midwinter may be dark... 

Collections

Kaleidoscope collection

Clusters of colours and shapes representing the embrace of the surrounding natural... 

Earrings

Colourful, delicate and enduring. These are made to last generations and are... 

  • Earrings

    "Featuring precious gemstones of course, and always natural. No synthetic fakes here. Hand set in either solid 9ct gold or solid sterling silver. The earwires are also solid 9ct gold in my gold series or solid sterling silver in my silver series."

  • Rings

    "Always solid 9ct gold or solid sterling silver, because I like materials that I can depend on and that don’t need constant repair. Mostly sapphires because they are the hardest wearing next to diamonds, and rings get a hard life. Also garnets and tourmalines, as they are the next in line for hardness. All natural of course."

  • Pendants

    "Natural precious gemstones of all sorts, cleverly set in solid 9ct gold or solid sterling silver. The chains are always solid gold or solid sterling silver. I never use plated anything, I’m a purist like that. I don’t like the idea of plating wearing off to reveal a metal that isn't what the jewellery is intended to look like."