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The atelier

House photography

Parcels as they arrive from the field, rough before it is cut, and finished stones under studio light. A look at the material we work with rather than a list of what is for sale.

  • A close-packed parcel of faceted blue stones filling the frame, lit so the facets catch the light at different angles
    A parcel of blue sapphire, sorted for tonesquare
  • A single deep blue cushion-cut sapphire photographed against a dark graduated studio background
    Cushion-cut blue sapphire under studio lightlandscape
  • A violet-blue emerald-cut gemstone held in a pair of gemmologist's tweezers against a plain pale background
    Under the loupe — every stone is inspected before it is listedlandscape
  • A large peach-pink oval-cut gemstone resting on textured tree bark
    Warm peach-pink, the tone Ceylon is sought forlandscape
  • Four round brilliant-cut blue stones arranged on a white surface, each casting a long shadow
    Calibrated rounds, matched for colour and cutlandscape
  • A bracelet and drop earrings set with blue stones and small colourless stones, arranged on deep blue fabric
    Finished pieces, commissioned from loose stockportrait
  • An assortment of polished and rough stones in purple, red and clear, scattered across a grey slate surface
    A working parcel, straight from the fieldlandscape
  • A single piece of rough, uncut blue mineral resting on a white surface
    Rough, before any decision about the cut has been madelandscape
  • A macro photograph of purple amethyst crystal points rising from a cluster
    Amethyst, in the form it comes out of the groundlandscape
  • Several tumbled and polished purple amethyst stones grouped on a white background
    Tumbled amethyst, graded by depth of colourlandscape
  • Many small lilac faceted stones scattered on a pale surface, photographed with shallow depth of field
    Small faceted lilac stones, sorted by the handfullandscape
  • A polished pale green crystal point standing upright on a wooden surface
    A polished point, cut to show the colour zoningportrait