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Creative Atelier: jewellery design and fine jewellery production

Design, gem sourcing and production sit at the same table here, so a drawing and the stone it was drawn for never have to be introduced to each other twice.

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A sapphire ring lying beside its own gouache painting: the design, and the piece it became.Watch the film: Creative Atelier
A sapphire ring lying beside its own gouache painting: the design, and the piece it became.

What Creative Atelier does

  • Concept and collection development

    From initial sketches to a full, commercially minded collection.

    A collection begins as a conversation about what the brand is for and who is meant to wear it. The house draws until the idea has a shape, then costs it. What leaves the table is a collection a business can actually make.

  • Jewellery design

    Technical drawings and CAD.

    A drawing a workshop can build from: plan, section, and the tolerances a setter needs. The CAD model follows the drawing rather than replacing it, so a piece can be turned and checked on screen before any metal is cut.

  • Gem sourcing

    We source stones for your collections to your brief, through gem dealers and cutters. Special cuts and carvings, inlays and anything gemstone related.

  • Fine jewellery production

    Gold, platinum, silver, titanium and alternative materials: from the very first samples, prototyping and product development to managing the full production process on your behalf.

    First a sample to be handled rather than looked at. Then a prototype in the finished metal, checked against the drawing and against the stone it was drawn for, and only then the run.

  • Paint-ups and jewellery gouache

    Hand-painted gouache renderings of each design.

    A painted rendering shows a piece at its own size and in its own colours before it exists. It is what a collection is sold from while the metal is still being cut, and what a client is shown when a commission is being agreed.

How it starts

  1. You say what you would like to discuss, and the days that suit you.

  2. We confirm a time by email, within two working days.

  3. A first conversation by video, to hear your brief before anything is agreed.

Every piece of work is quoted to its brief.

Questions

Who is Gemlea for?

Jewellery designers and brands, not private collectors.

Can we start working with you at any stage?

Yes. Gemlea meets you and supports you at any point of your jewellery business and journey, whether that is a single sourcing brief or a full collection from concept to production.

Do you do paint-ups and jewellery gouache?

Yes. Paint-ups and jewellery gouache sit within Gemlea Creative Atelier, alongside the technical drawings and CAD work.

What materials do you produce in?

Gold, platinum, silver, titanium and alternative materials: from first samples and prototyping through to managing the full production process on your behalf.

What about fees, minimums, lead times or NDAs?

We agree this in the brief, project by project, as it depends on what you need from us.