Ella Gafter Four-Strand Pearl Diamond Necklace

Name: Ella Gafter Four-Strand Pearl Diamond Necklace
Brand: Ella Gafter
Price: 57500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

The high-class pearl and diamond necklace consists of a set of 4 independent strands for a total of 202 white homogeneous round Japanese Akoya pearls (Pinctada Fucata) of 9/9.5mm diameter. The pearls display a lovely nacre, lustre, and iridescence. The 4 identical 18 carat white gold clasps are decorated with round diamonds. There are 37 gold dividers each set with 6 round diamonds. The total weight of top quality diamonds is approximately 3.50 carats. The strands are strung to fall one below the other. Since the 4 clasps are identical, they can be put together to form one very long strand that can then be roped around creatively. One can also obtain a double opera length set, as shown in the following images, and other combinations are possible. The individual strand lengths are 18" - 19" - 20.5" - 22".

Creator:

Ella Gafter

Metal:

18k Gold,White Gold

Stone:

Diamond,Pearl,White Diamond,Cultured Pearl

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Date of Manufacture:

Unknown

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Seller Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

Seller: J56x1stDibs: LU80233351893

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Ella Gafter

Even before Ella Gafter founded her namesake jewelry collection in 1982, she was a formidable presence in the jewelry industry.

As a Rome-based gem dealer, Gafter sold pearls and precious stones to retailers and jewelers but was often dissatisfied with how they made use of the rare materials she worked so hard to source. Instead of grousing, she decided to design jewels that would do them justice, focusing primarily on pearls — akoya, Tahitian and South Sea. She explains her fascination with the lustrous marine treasures simply: “Every woman looks better with pearls than without.”

Her daughter Talila Gafter, then an undergrad at Harvard, was her ally in getting the project off the ground. Together, they made the rounds to stores with Ella’s first efforts. “We had a little pouch with eight pieces and we sold everything,” Talila tells 1stDibs. After graduation, she “was involved one hundred percent” in building the company, whose pieces are handmade by master jewelers in Naples.

The designer insists that her unwavering focus is the source of her success. “There’s no compromising for me,” she says. She’s been known to replace the pearls in a single piece time after time until she’s certain she’s achieved her ideal result. “A pearl you have to respect,” she explains. “You have to put it where it wants to sit.”

Ella describes the collaboration with her daughter as a “partnership,” with each having her own domain. “I’m all fantasy; Talila is the concrete one,” she says. The company is now based in New York City, with Talila as its president while Ella is firmly at the helm of creative decisions. “I’ve never made a design suggestion to Ella,” says Talila. “Nobody does.”

That forbearance has been earned, says Talila. “I admire that Ella doesn’t take no for an answer, her tenacity, her extraordinary ambition. She believes as long as there is life, there is a lot of beauty to create. She’s a force of nature.”

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