This is a work of international excellence.
Our story
A jeweller's bench bought with wedding money, a stall at a makers' market, seven years in South Africa, and a studio in Canberra City for more than twenty years. This is where the pieces come from.
The day after they got married, Eytan and Nurit took the money they received from their wedding to buy the basic equipment needed to make jewellery and set up a studio in their apartment. Eytan graduated as a jeweller and diamond setter the same year, and the two of them sold their first pieces at an artists’ market half a world away.
Eytan and Nurit opened a studio upstairs in the Rosebank mall and started setting the unique gemstones they sourced in South Africa.
The family moved to Australia and opened in Double Bay. Sydney gave the studio its first Australian customers and, later, the ring that would become its signature.
They moved to Bunda Street in Canberra City, where the studio has been ever since. In 2006, an indicolite tourmaline became the Opera House Ring. In 2011, the Always Clock: the first clock ever made in Mokume Gane, exhibited at Parliament House the following year.
The family
Co-founder, designer and master jeweller. Trained as a jeweller and diamond setter in 1989, at the bench every day since, and a third-dan black belt in Shotokan karate, earned in Ekoda, Tokyo, which he says taught him the same patience that working with the metals demands.
Co-founder and designer. Nurit has an eye for bringing together colour, shape and proportion in beautiful and unexpected ways, and a gift for drawing out what a client really wants from a piece. She encourages people to think outside the box and try things they would never have expected to love.
GIA certified gemologist, trained in gemology and CAD design at the GIA Carlsbad campus in California. Daniel brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in gemstones, and can turn your first idea into a design on screen so you can see clearly what your piece will look like.
In print
Newspapers and magazines in Australia and South Africa have written about the studio and its work. Here is some of what they said.
This is a work of international excellence.
A working dynamic that sees them create exquisite, unique jewellery with passion and élan.
A stunning example of symmetry and design excellence.
We offered similar rings last December and you loved them so much that we asked Israeli jeweller Eitan Aharoni to come up with a new design, specially for you.
Eytan Aharoni has a deep passion for jewellery.
Eytan Aharoni is not a typical jeweller; then again, his jewellery is anything but typical.
One of Canberra’s best-known designer jewellers.
In Eytan's words
I still believe in clean, simple lines around a gem. The stone has a life, and a light, of its own, and it does not need fuss. The right design is the one that reveals the gem for itself.
The process of making Mokume Gane is a dialogue between the maker and the metals. Only if they are handled in a way that suits their nature will the result become one fused piece.
I grew up in a house surrounded by beautiful objects, from the cutlery on the table to the hand-woven fabrics the family wore on festive days. My mother always wore richly coloured 22 karat gold. I am sure these things chose my path for me.
In the community
The studio has been part of Canberra City for more than twenty years, and we like to open the door to it. A preschool group once visited to see the bench and hold a raw stone, and each child went home with a small piece of tourmaline as a gift.
For several years we also ran an annual design competition open to anyone in Canberra: entrants were given a set of stones and a blank page, and the winning drawing was made into a real piece, which the winner kept free of charge.
