The Making
FROM WAX TO GOLD
Everything begins with a sketch. A line on paper that comes from something seen, something felt, something studied at a scale most people walk past without noticing. The vein of a leaf. The architecture of a seed pod. The way canyon stone moves when light changes.
Before anything is carved, some designs begin as paper and clay maquettes. Small physical models built by hand to test proportion, scale, and how a form will sit on the body. This is where an idea stops being flat and becomes something you can turn in your hands. Architecture taught me this. You build to understand. You do not wait for perfect to begin.
From there comes the wax. Each piece is carved by hand, a process that requires patience and an intimacy with form that no machine can replicate. For more complex designs, CAD and 3D printing support the wax work, allowing proportion and scale to be tested before a single gram of metal is committed. Some pieces go through multiple rounds before the form is right.
When the form is ready it goes to lost wax casting, a process that dates back thousands of years. What emerges is raw, rough, and full of possibility. From there every piece is refined by hand. Filed, sanded, polished, oxidized, finished. Every surface decision is intentional.
The entire process from first sketch to finished piece takes weeks. Sometimes longer. That time is in what you wear.
MATERIALS
ANAVIR pieces are made in sterling silver and 10k, 14k, and 18k gold using recycled metals. All jewelry is nickel and cadmium free. Gemstones are conflict free and include semi-precious stones and fine pearls, freshwater, Akoya, Tahitian, and South Sea.
SUSTAINABILITY
Wherever possible ANAVIR sources vintage deadstock beads, pearls, and gemstones, giving rare and discontinued materials a new life in contemporary forms. Recycled metals are used throughout. Packaging is kept minimal and intentional. Nothing here is wasted.
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