Boregaard… Without Boundaries

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
His 15mm. gray pearl ring, a piece of contemporary sculpture, for Perles de Tahiti

In 2000
His Galactica Moth pin for the Colored Gemstone Designer Award
His alligator necklace, bracelet and ear clips, finalists in Gold Virtuosi sponsored by the World Gold Council,   Anglogold and Fiera di vincenza)
His 18k Nucleus tiger moth for the grand prize from Gold Trends 2000;
His claw link necklace finalist for Gold Trends 2000
His star flower ear clips, also finalist for Gold Trends 2000
His amethyst/blue tourmaline moth for the Spectrum 2000 Award

In 1999
The New Designer of the Year Award from the International Jewelry Design Guild.

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.
And, of course, Boregaard's famed collection of handcrafted eggs and hearts - newly enlarged to more than 100 designs. A cascade of tones and textures, these miniatures are sculptured and swirled in platinum, silver and gold, encrusted with diamonds and other gemstones to be worn in series on a bracelet or pendant - or to shine alone.

About Boregaard
Trained in Munich with Hemmerle, Boregaard made jewelry in London, came to the States in '74 and was snapped up by Tiffany as a technician. He stayed seven years, rose to head a design workshop of 40. (Picasso, Cummings and Peretti gratefully acknowledge his creative contribution to their work.)

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.
Here customers - collectors - come from around the world.

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."

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