Our world is ruled by the geometry of light, day and night, season and time itself all framed and reckoned by its angle or its absence. With this phenomenally elemental Art Deco-style cuff, Wings honors the power and beauty of the light in all its variations, reminding us that everything from the sun’s golden glow to the haunting iridescence of the storm to the silvery lines of constellations in the darkened sky are all gifts of medicine for our world. The band is formed of heavy-gauge sterling silver half-round wire, flat on the underside and rounded on the surface. Down the central two-thirds of that convex surface, Wings has scored repeating patterns of deep lines in groups of four, some straight, others on the diagonal, in a mirror-image pattern of Art Deco angled geometry. Single directional arrows, layered and deeply embossed, point toward either end of the band. Flowing-water motifs formed by Wings’s own hand-made stamp trace the inner band, punctuated at intervals by star-like blossoms. The focal at the center is an outsized teardrop of extraordinary banded Labradorite, the included veins formed over time on a geologic scale, the whole cabbed to the exact angle of the diagonal lines incised so deeply into one side of the band. The color shift between gray and gold is eye-dazzling and powerful, seeming to refract the internal fire of the storm itself. It rests in a bezel cut extremely low to show off the beveled edges, the backing extended to hold the twisted silver that embraces the stone. Band is 6″ long by 3/8″ wide; bezel is 1-1/2″ long by 1-1/16 across at the widest point; cabochon is 1-1/4″ long by 1″ across at the widest point (all dimensions approximate). Other views shown below.
Sterling silver; banded Labradorite
$1,400 + shipping, handling, and insurance
Top view in light:
Top view reversed:
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Underside/inner band:
Side 2:
Top view angled in the light:
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