MATERIAL SERIES
Coalescing concept with materiality, SAUVEREIGN’s Material Series highlights the natural resplendence of various materials. From natural to man-made mediums, the series explores the different ways in which materials can be shaped, manipulated, and transformed.
Classic
PURE
One of the most iconic of SAUVEREIGN Gems, the PURE collection is a perfect example of the house’s signature as well as proprietary gold leafing technique. Composed of layers upon layers of gold leaf, each Gem is gilded using Crystalline™, polished, and lacquered painstakingly by hand, resulting in a glossy luminescent finish. Each style features its own distinctive shade of gold leaf, each accentuated by slightly varied processes, owing to their material nature. Demanding of both precision and artistry, SAUVEREIGN’s PURE collection combines generational know-how with lifetimes of practice in perfecting technique.
Legacy
PURE 3
SAUVEREIGN’s PURE 3 Legacy juxtaposes two types of gold leaf in a pattern beautifully reminiscent of winter’s first frost, often found on lusty leaves at the crack of dawn.
The base canvas is covered in 24-carat gold leaf, hand-burnished assiduously to create a mirror effect. Thin, intricate veins of white gold leaf is then meticulously layered on top, evoking the fractal patterns of frost. Just as frost forms in nature, the ornamentation of each Gem is unique, manifesting organically under the hands of its craftsman. Raw yet delicate, exuberant and exquisite, SAUVEREIGN’s PURE 3 Legacy Gem radiates with quiet beauty.
Legacy
SIXTY-SIX MARMORINO
The elegantly minimalist pattern of SAUVEREIGN’s SIXTY-SIX MARMORINO Legacy collection is composed of hand-mixed pigments, duo-tone gold leaf, as well as the titular material, Marmorino plaster. Each pair comprises one matte and one glossy Gem, a contrasting effect that doubles the variety of textures presented.
The composition of each Gem features two kinds of gold leaf scrupulously applied to create the motif of a spiraling woven rope. An exquisitely intricate embellishment atop a raw and textured surface, the visual juxtaposition used within SAUVEREIGN’s SIXTY-SIX MARMORINO collection is both artistic and fascinating to the eye.
Legacy
LANTERN
SAUVEREIGN’s LANTERN Legacy collection features varied combinations of precious materials including Citrine, Pearl, and Jade. The stones are delicately hand-cut into the shape of sky lanterns and placed atop a gradient and gold
leaf surface composed to recall the night sky. The shape of the Gem itself is also reminiscent of a lantern’s illuminating silhouette. Sky lanterns act as a vessel to the Gods, carrying messages of a prayer or wish. As they float into the distance, a constellation of collective yearning forms across the horizon. SAUVEREIGN’s LANTERN Legacy Gem not only captures the beauty of this magical sight, but in its precious permanence, embodies an eternal luminescence of hope and optimism.
Legacy
SHADOW IV MARMORINO
SHADOW IV MARMORINO Legacy combines the artistic abstraction of SAUVEREIGN’s SHADOW collection with the visual gravity of marmorino.
Composed of layered yellow and white gold leaf, yellow gold dust, and handmixed pigments, the SHADOW IV motif is a reference to iconic Pop artist Andy Warhol’s most enigmatic series. Depicting the contour of an unknown object, its silhouette atop a marmorino base is as if a shadow projected onto a concrete wall. Combining textures of the tangible and intangible, SAUVEREIGN’s SHADOW IV MARMORINO embodies a three-dimensional scene within its surface.
Legacy
PACIFIC PEARL
SAUVEREIGN’s PACIFIC PEARL Legacy Gem utilises four kinds of mother-of-pearl in its composition including South Sea White, South Sea Gold, Tahitian Black, and Abalone – naturally sourced from the shores of Asia to Oceania.
The first collection to be dominantly composed of found, precious material, the construction of Pacific Pearl is concerned not only with the aesthetic resplendence of its raw medium, but also with finding the perfect pieces that fit the intrinsic curvature of the Gem.
The craftsmanship of Pacific Pearl upholds the meticulous precision practiced on all SAUVEREIGN creations, yet simultaneously embraces the arbitrary yet inherent imperfections of its natural material. The paradoxical contrast manifests in an objet d’art that encapsulates the notion of “perfect imperfection.”
Legacy
LANTERN
SAUVEREIGN’s LANTERN Legacy collection features varied combinations of precious materials including Citrine, Pearl, and Jade. The stones are delicately hand-cut into the shape of sky lanterns and placed atop a gradient and gold
leaf surface composed to recall the night sky. The shape of the Gem itself is also reminiscent of a lantern’s illuminating silhouette. Sky lanterns act as a vessel to the Gods, carrying messages of a prayer or wish. As they float into the distance, a constellation of collective yearning forms across the horizon. SAUVEREIGN’s LANTERN Legacy Gem not only captures the beauty of this magical sight, but in its precious permanence, embodies an eternal luminescence of hope and optimism.
Legacy
SONNET I
SAUVEREIGN’s SONNET I Legacy features the penmanship of the maison’s artist and founder Bertrand Mak, reciting one of William Shakespeare’s most celebrated love poems, “Sonnet 116.” Made in solid 18-carat yellow gold, the Gem is casted, scrupulously hand-carved, and polished by a prestigious goldsmith in Geneva, Switzerland. Interweaving, imbricating, protruding, and removed, the depicted text appears as if seared into or levitating from the surface. Comprising engravings of six varied depths and skeletonised, SONNET I is reminiscent of a personal diary – within it, immortalising an affection that bears the weight of time.
