Lily Gabriella's 'Ode To Yellow' Jewels For Sotheby's Diamonds Goes On Tour

Yellow diamonds serve as the focal point and art and architecture is the inspiration for a capsule collection of jewels by London-based, Brazilian-bred high jewelry designer, Lily Gabriella Elia, for Sotheby's Diamonds The nine one-of-a-kind creations, under the name "Ode to Yellow," were unveiled in February at Sotheby's Diamonds retail space in London and six of the jewels were recently on display at Sotheby's New York headquarters as part of a world tour for clients Sotheby's Diamonds' London headquarters has a team of designers and craftspersons to create bespoke jewels for their clients from the diamonds they selected.

"Lily is somewhat of an architect of light and color The jewels she has created perfectly capture Sotheby's Diamonds' unique signature, where diamonds are the masterpieces, always at the heart of the composition," she said in a statement Wong added that yellow diamonds is becoming a strong choice again in jewelry, particularly with a younger audience, and may soon have the same level of interest as pink and blue diamonds.

It begins with thick yellow 18k gold with rows of tubular indentations that reveal a 21.15-carat oval light yellow diamond surrounded by yellow and white pave sapphires The "Polytope" earrings, contain identical 1.54-carat D-color, internally flawless brilliant-cut diamonds surrounded by paved yellow and white diamond set in white and yellow gold. . Source