Journey of a Jeweler

Journey of a Jeweler traces Brazilian designer Silvia Furmanovich's global collaborations with master artisans and the ancient techniques that animate her work. Structured as a travelogue and studio diary, the book visits ateliers across Brazil, India, Italy, and beyond to document marquetry in wood, micromosaics, filigree, lacquer, and unconventional materials transformed into wearable art. Essays explain how Furmanovich researches cultural motifs, honors local craft lineages, and integrates them into contemporary design without pastiche. Lush photography floats finished pieces against process images—hands at benches, tools worn smooth by decades, pigments ground for color—making the alchemy of craft visible. Alongside jewels, spreads feature sketchbooks, mood boards, and inspirations from architecture, botany, and textiles. The tone is celebratory yet grounded in ethics: fair collaboration, sustainability, and preserving endangered skills. For jewelry lovers and designers, this is a window onto a practice that treats technique as storytelling and ornament as cultural bridge. It argues, persuasively, that true luxury is time, knowledge, and human touch, crystallized into objects that sparkle with memory as much as light.