Since launching her brand over 20 years ago, Brazilian designer Silvia Furmanovich has become a reference and award winning designer in high-end jewelry. Her sophisticated, handcrafted pieces are made using painstaking ancestral techniques: a combination of craft learned from her goldsmith father and her own deep passion for global cultures, the natural world, travel, color and fashion. Although every piece is daring – in terms of both scale and imagination – there is also a sense of pure opulence found in the balance of unusual materials (copper, wood, and carvings, among others) and 18-karat gold, diamonds and dazzling colored gemstones. These highly specialized creations – many of which are one-of-a- kind – are grounded in ancient Egyptian and Native American iconography but wholly relevant for a cutting-edge woman.