THE NEW H.STERN COLLECTION

Ancient America, H.Stern new collection, is a deep dive into pre-columbian cultural wealth and their vast mosaic of cultural and aesthetic expressions. The strong link between all the people of pre-Columbus era and the animals have inspired the designers. The jewelry pieces created are marked by patterns that reproduce the skin of serpents, fishes, birds and turtles, in high contrast of black and white gems plus different shades of gold.

Ancient America's civilizations have left us a rich cultural heritage that could express their innermost feelings about life and the cosmos, its relentless attempt to understand the universe and natural phenomena. Faced with a vast mosaic of cultural and aesthetic expressions, the designers of the H.Stern got delighted with the belief that united all the peoples of pre-Columbus era: the certainty that everything in the world was animated by spiritual beings.

The geographical places, moments cultural, ethnic or strains were different, but all peoples had a common view: they believed that everything around us, animals, plants and minerals have soul and soul, including that of man, can go and come during the dream or through the rituals. The idea that the soul pervades everything is given the name of animism. And since man is inhabited by a spirit in perpetual transformation, why not take the form of animals and thereby incorporate their strength and their powers?