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It has been a long time between newsletters, but lots has been happening at venerari. Despite the general doom and gloom in the world, we continue to make and sell increasing numbers of inspiring things to discerning people who appreciate design and jewellery beyond the norm. We turn 5 years old soon, and have plans afoot for some changes in our Strand Arcade store. News of the associated birthday hoop-la to follow in the next newsletter.
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Contact Details
Shop 13, Strand Arcade,
412 George Street, Sydney
NSW 2000 Australia
Mon / Tues / Wed / Fri
10am-5.30pm
Thur 10am-8pm
Sat 10am-4.30pm
Sun 11am-4pm
T +61 (2) 9222 9797
F +61 (2) 9222 9707
E shop@venerari.com
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| Ring up a bargain
Yes, we are having a clearance sale, a very rare treat for you loyal followers. As so much of our work is bespoke, the showroom becomes a laboratory for current preoccupations, and sometimes pieces sit in the showcases for longer than they amuse us. As we have newer things to show you as soon as they evolve from our workshop, we are determined to clear out at least some of our stock. So until the end of June, we are offering 10-30% off all our in-store jewellery, excluding chains and omegas. So come on in and see what’s on offer. Sale starts Friday, but come in Thursday and mention this newsletter and we'll give you first bite of the cherry at sale prices!
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| Odd things
Your requests for bespoke objects are becoming, frankly, delightfully weirder. Some of these we really mustn’t discuss in the context of a family newsletter. But for those of you not sure if your next project is too wacky for us, perhaps we should share with you three recent projects, a moldavite pendant, an eagle claw and a wisdom tooth ring. The wisdom tooth, plucked out of the client’s husband’s head, has been cut into two, and we’ve set the head in one side, and the beautiful tails in the other. As our film-director client says, it hogs every interview he does these days. |
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| Weddings of late
As purveyors of fine jewellery, its lovely to be able to observe different social trends. There is something going on in the bedrooms and hearts of venerari fans of late. Call it the GFC, call it a certain age group, call it like minds, but this is a bumper year for proposals and weddings. You are flocking in for unusual wedding rings, and each month (in between travelling to cracking good weddings ourselves) we are sending a few more rings around the world for weddings we can’t quite get to. One of the nicest things about designing jewellery is that it is full of happy emotions. Dearest clients, there has been a lot of happy-happy-happy in-store this year, keep it up! |
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| The Tippi Hedren thing
While a lot of you enjoy our everyday pieces, we are conscious that for big events, fashion, press and OTT outings, one occasionally needs a ‘conversation piece’. Certainly the hats and headbands and hair clips by venerari of late have got people twittering. Our taxidermy madness these last few months has come out of research on Victorian animal jewellery. We have taken delivery of 8 whole stuffed birds, 37 pairs of wings, and a large bag of feet. We gracefully declined a number of other body parts, and feel no need to extend the range into mice or other pets (yes, people keep asking). |
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| Renew, reuse, recycle
The flip side of the GFC has been everyone digging around in the back of their underwear drawer, and all sorts of inherited jewels are now coming into venerari for remodelling. We are amazed that so many riches have languished unworn for so long, and are very glad that you are using the downturn to think laterally about such things. Many of the gems handed down from wartime purchases by returning soldiers may not be the real thing (we are sceptical when we see 10ct rubies!) but if they have sentimental value they are still worth wearing, airing and talking about. If you have old pieces in good or poor settings, bring them in, we’ll have a look at the gems and discuss ways of turning them into something you’ll wear with pride. |
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| Our purple pouches
As you all know, the purple pouches we use to hold the jewellery inside the boxes are wonderful things. They keep your pieces safe in a handbag while travelling, are discreet things for a slimline pocket for a surprise proposal, and have a number of other later uses which we are often hearing about. We make all of these by hand, in house. People often ask us why we don’t farm out the pouch-making to a Chinese sweatshop, but we are somehow quite attached to this home-baked process. It's in line with the way we handmake everything else in the shop. So when next you pick up a purple pouch, remember it was probably folded and pinned by our children, and sewn by Genevieve on the dining room table, and comes to you with the same care, affection and attention to detail as everything else we make. |
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