I consider that nothing exceptional is accomplished without passion, which is why I clearly remember the precise moment rock crystal entered my life.

20 years ago, I was attending the Tucson Gem & Mineral show in Arizona with my parents; on display were some incredible natural rock crystal specimens from Brazil which made my heart beat fast. I could see the light entering the crystal and played through its different angles and at same time I saw this incredible natural formation which resembled a city full of translucent naturally balanced skyscrapers. Since that day, this mineral has always fascinated me.

 Some zones of rock crystal are so immaculate and completely transparent that the eye sees straight through them and seemingly on toward infinity. Others are “occupied”, enclosing frost or fine filaments of mist whose ondulations catch the eye. A rock crystal represents at once both turbulence and limpidity, and its dual, even ambiguous nature is the very essence of the minerals magic. It combines up all that is finite yet never ending, instantaneous though eternal; both heat and cold, immobile yet changeable. This is why George Sand said that it represents the limit between “the Visible and the Invisible”. When I look at rock crystal, I tell myself that it is the very image of life itself, radiant with light in spite of some stormy passages.

Rock crystal is colourless quartz with astonishing inclusions running through it and since the physical aspect of these inclusions is totally random, it goes without saying that no two crystals will ever be identical, even if they are sculpted in the same fashion.  Each of them leads its own life, and what makes them so unique and fascinating.

This statement piece gives the appearance of a quartz cluster, but it is so much more. A drinking set suitable for vodka or other shots, it features a brushed quartz crystal base raised on six legs. It fits 6 shot glasses which are polished to look like natural crystal structures with terminations, implying that when a shot is accepted it is "bottoms up" as the "glasses" cannot be rested until they are consumed. The decanter crystal, measuring 8 1/2 inches in height, is rimmed in hand-wrought silver. The base measures 15 1/2 x 10 x 3 1/2 in