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Boregaard… Without Boundaries
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Perimeter-less. Without boundaries. So one must describe Pedro Boregaard's body of work. As The New York Times wrote, "Pedro Boregaard refuses to be typecast." As Town & Country applauded, "Pedro Boregaard is not just a master designer - he's a master goldsmith…who daringly juxtaposes colors and materials…In a single piece, five types of gold and diamonds ranging from champagne to brown." In the past two years Boregaard has won eight of jewelry-dom's highest awards, each saluting a different look, a different technique. In
2002
In 2000 In
1999 His outreach broadens in his new collections. From the "Alligator" collection, his award winning textured link necklace of 18k gold. 18 dazzling inches of contoured scales. "I laid the gold on thick - 340 pennyweights," says Boregaard. "Yet there's no heaviness on the neck. " Moths alighting. In 1998, to celebrate his 15th year in his own business, Boregaard loosed his first bevy of moths. Success was immediate, and continuing flights of jeweled and textured winged creatures have since followed. Now, in new migration, a lacy-textured Empress moth whose royal court includes an amethyst-studded courtier (lady-in-waiting?) with a blue tourmaline at its head, and a diamond-dusted sparkler in platinum and 18k white gold. Just alight, a ravishing gray-toned Polar moth in a luminous mix of silver and platinum and white gold. And, newest of all, wings - just wings - in silvery tones sprinkled with old Indian cut diamonds and brilliants. Plus
an expanded collection of pearl designs. South Sea pearls ranging from
white to gold and gray to peacock - set into studs, drop earrings and
pendants. Large rare Keshi pearls cradled in handcarved rings of pink
gold, green gold, yellow gold, each color chosen to enhance the particular
gray tone of the pearl. About
Boregaard
His airy atelier at 53rd Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan looks
more a museum gallery than a jewelry showroom. Although his work is sold
in a dozen or so fine jewelry boutiques across the United States, this
is the heart of his business. Here every piece is made by hand. As he tells it, "I left Tiffany to go it on my own and design the kind of jewelry I love for women - and men - who might love it, too. They have. I'm blessed." |