Timeless Motif
Jewelry artists are always exploring myriad found shapes to tell their design story. And nature, it turns out, presents some of the most elegant and inviting shapes and references that offer continual appeal.
We've seen this motif over and over recently in all types and price points of jewelry. And with just a little sleuthing, we produced some intriguing backstories about this near-mythical leaf design.
The ginkgo biloba treeplays host to the limpid leaf shapes that fascinate everyone. In Asian civilizations where it is said to have originated, this tree has not evolved, nor does it have a close floral relative in its millions of years existence.
The trees eventually made their way across the globe, although they did not survive in the tropics. But other parts of the world they did well, including New York, where specimens planted in the late 18th century still grow quite hearty today.
Their long lives and seeming imperviousness to destruction has won them the adoration of culture…
We've seen this motif over and over recently in all types and price points of jewelry. And with just a little sleuthing, we produced some intriguing backstories about this near-mythical leaf design.
The ginkgo biloba treeplays host to the limpid leaf shapes that fascinate everyone. In Asian civilizations where it is said to have originated, this tree has not evolved, nor does it have a close floral relative in its millions of years existence.
The trees eventually made their way across the globe, although they did not survive in the tropics. But other parts of the world they did well, including New York, where specimens planted in the late 18th century still grow quite hearty today.
Their long lives and seeming imperviousness to destruction has won them the adoration of culture…
