Applications are now being accepted for the business incubation programme Setting Out 2017 at the Goldsmiths’ Centre in Clerkenwell. The programme is open to eight talented emerging jewellery, silversmithing and allied trade businesses. Now in its fifth year, this intensive year-long course is delivered by a dedicated team of business and creative specialists and focuses on…
Ivonna Poplanska joins Allum & Sidaway team
Ivonna Poplanska has been appointed as jewellery design director for independent retailer Allum & Sidaway. Poplanska, who will take up her role in May, is a multi award-winning jewellery designer. Over her ten year stellar career, Poplanska has worked on numerous bespoke commissions including the creation of a brooch ‘The Eternal Dove’ for Queen Elizabeth…
HOT 100 2015 TRENDSETTERS: Ivonna Poplanska
There aren’t many people in the jewellery trade as universally liked as Ivonna Poplanska, who shot to industry fame when her Eternal Dove brooch was worn by the Queen in 2012. Cut forward a few years and Ivonna has been busy working as the creative director for fine diamond and gemstone jewellery company, UJT Ltd.…
UJT launches new catalogue ahead of pre Christmas sales
Diamond and precious gemstone jewellery specialist UJT Ltd has released a new catalogue ahead of the surge in pre Christmas sales. The new catalogue showcases eight new in-house, non-branded coloured gemstone and diamond collections. Each new collection is available in several diamond weights to allow for flexible pricing. Jewellery is available with GH SI1 or…
INTERVIEW: Joel Storfer, UJT Ltd
With the strapline ‘Jewellery Excellence’ and a brand new look, diamond and precious gemstone jewellery specialist UJT Ltd is on mission to provide exceptional quality pieces without the wallet-busting price tags. BenchPro meets director Joel Storfer to find out more. “All the back-end work has been done and our transition into manufacturing is now complete.…
Hot 100 2014: Ivonna Poplanska
The creative director talks Boudici, Van Eyck and the Queen. "A start-up luxury jewellery company is a bit of an oxymoron,” jokes Ivonna Poplanska, as she poses in the Forest Room at London’s exclusive Hospital Club. But she is the creative director of just that: new London brand Boudici. With a keen eye for colour…
Goldsmiths Centre opens Setting Out applications
Emerging designers can now apply for year-long mentoring scheme. Young graduate jewellers and early career goldsmiths are being encouraged to apply for the 2015 Setting Out programme at the Goldsmiths’ Centre, designed to enhance their bench and business skills. Set to start in February 2015, the intensive year-long course at the Goldsmiths’ Centre, Clerkenwell, offers…
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