In 2012, Melanie Georgacopoulos, the ever-inventive pearl jeweller, became a guest designer for Tasaki, the most respected jewellery brand in Japan and the number one producer of Akoya pearls in the world.
Committed to a shared passion for edgy and exciting designs, the Japanese pearl company launched a line named M/G Tasaki with Ms Georgacopoulos. A decade later, the team celebrates their long-lasting relationship with a new chapter that mirrors the sparkle of their debut.
As a guest designer with access to Tasaki’s high-tech research arm and their limitless pearl inventory, Melanie Georgacopoulos gives complete freedom to her creative addiction of revealing the inner beauty of pearls by slicing, dicing or faceting them. She has been known for her appetite to experiment with pearls since she launched her own company in 2010 after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London. It soon became her trademark to expose the different shades found in the
The latest additions to her existing Wedge collection, that she says, could not have been designed for anybody other than Tasaki, is about carving and incising. A sharp-angled section of the pearls is taken out and a gold inlay is inserted in its place. The effect is mesmerising as the gold panel sparkles as it catches the light.concentric circle patterns hidden below the nacre of a pearl.