INSTORE Design Awards 2025 – Best Statement Piece

Published

26 years ago

May 29, 2000

INSTORE Staff

Ricardo Basta Fine Jewelry (First Place)

Inside, Outside, Upside Down ring set is made in 18K white, rose and yellow gold with two hinged, snap-in interchangeable jackets featuring tsavorite garnets (1.36 TCW) and diamonds (0.61 TCW) and diamond-cut blue sapphires (5.96 TCW) and white diamonds (1.60 TCW) designed to cradle a split-shank ring with an 11.96-carat moval-shape Imperial topaz and diamonds (2.46 TCW), $155,000

INSTORE Design Awards 2025 – Best Statement Piece

AG Gems & Jewelry, Inc. (Second Place)

Palais de Cristal ring in 18K yellow gold with a 3.46-carat pear-shape alexandrite (GIA report) from India, round brilliant-cut diamonds (1.32 TCW) and round untreated alexandrite (0.83 TCW) from Brazil, $105,000

INSTORE Design Awards 2025 – Best Statement Piece

Stuller (Third Place)

Dangle earrings in 14K yellow gold with peridot (4.78 TCW) and lab-grown emeralds (1.72 TCW), $2,555

INSTORE Design Awards 2025 – Best Statement Piece

Robin Callahan Designs, LLC (Retailer’s Choice)

Azurium necklace in 18K white gold features a 17.85-carat Afghan-origin blue tourmaline cut by Dalan Hargrave in his new diamond tucked micro design, Brazilian Paraíba tourmaline (3.16 TCW) melee and G-H-color, VS-clarity diamonds (7.968 TCW) on an Omega chain, $95,000

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