The designer who is understood for her locks, which look and performance like precise carabiner clips and are worn as charms or necklace clasps, has tailored her fascination with mechanisms to the engagement rings. “In line with my mother and father, I’ve at all times been obsessive about little bizarre objects, {hardware} and the way this stuff work,” explains Marla. “I apply these concepts into jewellery.”
A lot in the identical means Marla’s locks are impressed by a real-life object, her engagement rings take design cues from a pre-existing creation. However this one can’t be present in a ironmongery shop.
A GIF exhibiting how Marla Aaron’s Arrows ring opens and closes. Photograph courtesy
Gimmel or Twin rings, which have been standard from the 14th to the 17th century in Europe and infrequently worn as engagement rings, gave Marla the concept for DiMe Siempre. The historic jewels have been composed of two rings that match collectively like a puzzle. On the inside of the gold rings there was a secret message in enamel. One favourite phrase for the rings got here from wedding ceremony ceremonies, “What God has joined collectively let no man put asunder.” It echoed the couple’s union and the becoming a member of of the 2 components of the jewel.
The puzzle a part of the Gimmel rings in addition to the key message appealed to Marla and she or he made a set of gold band rings referred to as DiMe impressed by the concept. “I needed to convey again a easy model of the Gimmel ring,” explains Marla. Blake Full of life, who’s a collector of Marla’s work, has one with diamonds.
Marla Aaron’s Kissing Spheres engagement ring. Photograph courtesy
The engagement ring assortment started after Marla contributed a spin on her DiMe rings with a solitaire to the Ten/Ten Engagement Rings collaboration that includes diamonds from Botswana.
One in every of her concepts for making an entire engagement ring assortment got here after seeing the ball clasp on a classic change purse. (Sure, I mentioned a change purse!) Marla and her craftsmen recreated the best way the clasp opens within the Kissing Spheres ring set with two faceted sphere-shaped diamonds.
Marla Aaron’s Askew engagement ring set with a marquise formed diamond. Photograph courtesy
Marla performed round with solitaire diamond designs for the gathering. It contains an oval formed diamond in an east-west setting. There’s a marquise-cut diamond at a jaunty angle.
There’s additionally an over-the-top ring with big gems within the DiMe Siempre assortment referred to as the Love Machine. It facilities on a big sugar loaf form sapphire flanked by two diamond facet stones.
Marla Aaron’s Love Machine engagement ring that includes a sugarloaf formed sapphire flanked by two diamonds. Photograph courtesy
Beneath every of the middle stones there’s a flat clasp with a lever. It holds the 2 elements of the ring collectively and retains the message a secret.
“It took a few yr to work out the mechanisms,” explains Marla. “There was an infinite sense of delight with the group who’re all primarily based right here in New York when it was executed.”
Element of what the engraving seems like on the inside of considered one of Marla Aaron’s engagement rings. Photograph courtesy
The key message on the inside of the rings might be something a pair likes so long as it suits within the house. With Marla’s knowledgeable hand engravers, the size is normally round 65 characters, however they’ll now and again work out extra.
“One shopper requested a fairly lengthy lyric from a 1967 music by The Affiliation,” says Marla. “You surprise if this coronary heart of mine, Will lose its want for you. By no means, my love, By no means, my love.”
A Marla Aaron engagement ring inside considered one of her particular containers. Photograph courtesy
Marla designed particular containers which might be very totally different than traditional ring containers. They permit for the jewel to put open with the key message uncovered and visual to the one that receives it throughout a proposal.
For the reason that info of the 4Cs and qualities of a gem to not point out the private pleasure of creating the large dedication related to selecting an engagement ring is usually a lot for a pair to soak up, Marla additionally did one thing I don’t consider some other jewellery designer has ever executed earlier than. She had a pal of hers at Casa Bosques Sweets make particular chocolate bars with an area on the package deal to take notes. And if the shopper so wishes, they’ll take a break and benefit from the deal with.
One of many Casa Bosques chocolate bars made for Marla Aaron’s engagement ring shoppers. Photograph courtesy
Oh, and in case you are questioning what the title DiMe Siempre means, it’s an intimate type of the phrase “inform me” in Spanish reserved for folks effectively. Like every thing in Marla’s assortment, it displays her private passions. A local New Yorker, she grew to become fluent in Spanish as an trade scholar in Argentina and later labored in Spain for 5 years within the journal enterprise.
Marla Aaron’s showroom in New York Metropolis. Photograph courtesy
In the meanwhile, Marla Aaron’s DiMe Siempre engagement rings are solely out there by appointment in her pleasant new showroom on 47th Avenue in New York Metropolis.
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