Polar Bear With Girl Pendant by Alex & Mona Szabados of vitreous enamel, eighteen and twenty-two karat gold, opal, diamond, tourmaline, tanzanite.
Alex & Mona Szabados
CONTEMPORARY PRECIOUS
Mokelumne Hills, CA
The personal protagonist of each piece by Alex & Mona Szabados is a girl with expressive eyes and tender features. The small goddess of each pendant and necklace is accompanied by a court of nature, with winter animals abundant; bears, snow leopards, hares, horses, owls. Vivid in color, the Szabadoses celebrate enamel’s potential for brightness and luminescence, with layers of enamel creating bubbles of surprises underneath.
"Waters Fire" Necklace by Alex & Mona Szabados of enamels, copper, twenty-four karat gold foil and granules, diamonds, opals, aquamarine, tanzanite, tourmaline; 40 layers and firings. Set in twenty-two karat gold. Hand fabricated eighteen karat gold chain.