Rosa Maria

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The first time Rosa Maria showed her collection of rings at the July 98 jewellery exhibition "The Forum de Beyrouth", she was given the cold shoulder by Lebanon's more established jewellers. "There was one or two other 'unorthodox' jewellery designers like myself" said Rosa Maria "but most of the others were well-established jewellers, who rather look down on silver".

Rosa Maria's designs are so much more "avant-garde" than most of the opulent trinkets that constitute the bulk of mainstream jewellery. Her creations are firmly resistant to conventions, fundamentally simple for some, but complicated for others. Her silver rings are moulded out of pure metal, the same that rivalled gold 2000 years ago, and widely used by the Ottomans during the Victorian era.

These rings which are made out of a whole, pure and sober piece of silver, have a smooth aspect but will also leave you with a feeling of unfinished roughness. They are often inlaid with precious stones like rose cut diamonds, rubies, sapphires as well as semi-precious stones like tourmaline, garnet, iolite, and peridot.

"My rings are designed to be worn five or more to a finger, separated, assembled by pairs or more, while others are inspired from old ethnic jewellery turned into contemporary designs".

Rosa Maria masters the mixture of gold and silver as seen in her dice, mushroom,shell and pomegranate collections. "It is a little bit like the way I dress; I like to be overloaded with things, with layers of clothes of asymmetrical lengths, transparencies over dark textures, mixtures of colour that you wouldn't dare to mix and which at the end, give you such a personal style".