Jewellery

The lagoon island of Murano, located off the coast of Venice, is still important today as a production site for the precious export commodity of glass. In the best Venetian tradition, the dazzlingly colored Murano glass beads are also created there, from which this extraordinary Murano jewelry is made in a small jewelry workshop in Pforzheim that also specializes in high-quality closures.

Amber impressively demonstrates what a steep career a simple tree resin can have if given a little time. What dripped as resin from the trunks of the subtropical forests that covered what is now Scandinavia 50 million years ago and soon fossilized, was finally admired by the Roman poet Ovid 2,000 years ago as the "tears of the gods". The coveted "gold of the north" was transported from the Baltic to the Mediterranean on the "amber roads" in order to trade the "combustible stone" (the Low German "bernen" stands for "to burn") as fuel, incense substitute and exquisite gemstone.