Studio Life

The summer 2019 Collection is a milestone for Agas& Tamar, a gathering built around one of the most perfect, mysterious and inscrutable objects – the pearl. A pearl represents mysterious, natural and rare formal perfection. It has the cultural associations of tradition, family history and the idea of the heirloom. It is a classically elegant and feminine object. Its perfection, and the fact that it is so rich, were the starting points for the journey of formulating this season’s designs.

And this is the challenge that the new collection exemplifies: cracking the timeless classic of the pearl, to reconnect with it through its cultural and aesthetic associations, to combine it as part of a brand’s DNA and make it relevant to our own time and place, to make it contemporary, alive and kicking.

Part of the gathering expresses an interest in the aesthetics of the pearl, sometimes even without it: the perfect shape, the luminescence, the combination with other stones and metals. In some of the jewels, the designers created metal pearls, and in some – pearls instead of the metal. Sometimes it is present, and sometimes its lack is what gives it its power.Additionally, as part of the brand’s design language, many of the jewels represent not only beauty but also an attention to their small details, to the way they are clasped, donned or worn, and the way a connection is embroidered between the jewels, the pearl and their owners.

Pearls have always symbolized perfection and purity. They attested to wealth and higher social status, and expressed timeless beauty, “the tears of angels,” as they were understood in Greek mythology. Agas& Tamar’s Summer Collection adds another layer to this aesthetic and cultural richness – a gathering of jewelry that stresses their special status in culture and art while bringing them into harmony not only to the present time, but to the way they will be used in their owners world.