The mabé's lab creates exclusively handmade products (cutting work,incisions, threading, combination of natural colors, etc.), and it abolishes any industrial,mechanical or electronic processing system.
Here are worked precious stones,coral, sea shells turquoise, amber ivory and on request also gold, silver,diamond and emerald to create a large range of valuable and precious objects. It's also possible to create objects according to the subject,size and shapes chosen by the customers. Filomena Di Cecilia, an artist with rare sensitivity, mastery and formidable talent, planned and equipped mabé's laboratory,satisfying personal and specific artistic needs with her big creativity.
Gems
Beauty, durability and rarity; such are the three cardinal virtues of a perfect gemstone...
Corals
Coral was known and appreciated in ancient times. We find traces of it with the Sumerians...
Pearls
Natural Pearl jewellery has been beloved by many including generations of Royals from Cleopatra...
Filomena Di Cecilia,
an artist with rare sensitivity
Filomena Di Cecilia attended the best laboratories of Vietri sul Mare and Amalfi and then she honed her techniques and skills in Naples and other popular Vesuvian centers, where there are the most famous, fine and elegant schools of goldsmiths and handcrafts of the world.Of course she deepened studies and researches and expanded her cultural horizons to establish new contacts and experiences also with the attendance of some well-known contemporary masters. In this way, she refined her own abilities with inspiration, imagination and originality. Today her creations are admired and commissioned by an increasingly wide and demanding clientele.
Corals
I was lucky enough to see some jewels made in China around 1200 / 1300, which I could buy and take to Italy. Well, these jewels were made of Mediterranean coral!
Gemstones truly
are amazing miracles
of nature
"Beauty, durability and rarity; such are the three cardinal virtues of a perfect gemstone.
Stones lacking any of them cannot aspire to high place in the ranks of the precious stones."
Dr. G.F. Herbert Smith (1872-1953), Gemstones and their Distinctive Characters
Pearls Catalogue
from natural and organic shapes.
Pearls have been favoured by some of the world´s most beautiful and glamorous style icons, including Audrey Hepburn and Coco Channel as well as today´s top trendsetters.