Afsaneh is the Persian word for legend, and this is Silux's sculptural statement family, pieces built around a story rather than a single motif. The Simurgh Cocktail Ring opens it with Persian mythology's greatest bird: ancient, wise, and possessed of all the world's knowledge. In the Shahnameh she nurses Zal, the white-haired hero, and grants him one of her feathers to call on her in his darkest hour, held here at £2,400 as the most accessible entry into the family. Parvin turns to architecture rather than myth for its legend: each facet of its gold frame is hand-finished to create the stepped, light-catching depth that defines muqarnas vaulting in Persian architecture, with accent diamonds set flush between the geometric tiers so they catch light as the hand moves, at £3,950, geometry worn as its own kind of legend.
The family also holds Dastan, a capsule of twelve pieces whose name is the Persian word for story, and which belongs here for the same reason the rest of Afsaneh does: each piece is built from a tale rather than a pattern. The horse that guarded a sleeping hero, the parrot that taught its keeper how to open a cage, the leopard that watches a mountain nobody climbs, then a second wave in Homa, Shahin and Naz. Every one of them hides a pierced girih star beneath the crown or behind the back, a maker's mark you find only by turning the piece over, which is the geometry's proper place in a story: signed, not stated.
Afsaneh runs from the Simurgh Cocktail Ring at £2,400 to Parvin at £3,950, with the Dastan pieces priced on application, every piece solid gold, designed in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and made to order: legend and architecture, held in metal that never stops telling its story.
The Simurgh Cocktail Ring, as an atelier rendering in gouache
Selected pieces
All Afsaneh pieces
Afsaneh Simurgh Cocktail Ring
From £2,400
Parvin Ring
From £3,950
Afsaneh Ibex Roundel Ring
From £2,150
Afsaneh Senmurv Roundel Pendant
From £2,950
Afsaneh Shir Roundel Cufflinks
From £3,400
Afsaneh Shekar Hunt Medallion Pendant
From £4,950
Afsaneh Shekar Hunt Cuff
From £15,500
Afsaneh Relief Cuff
From £11,000
Afsaneh Senmurv Wrap Cuff
From £9,500
Afsaneh Ibex Torque Cuff
From £7,000
Afsaneh Haft Paykar Blue Dome Pendant
From £7,500
Afsaneh Haft Paykar Red Dome Ring
From £3,900
Afsaneh Haft Paykar Green Dome Drops
From £5,900
Afsaneh Haft Paykar Black Dome Cufflinks
From £3,600
Afsaneh Haft Paykar Yellow Dome Studs
From £2,400
Afsaneh Haft Paykar Sandalwood Dome Bracelet
From £3,900
Afsaneh Haft Paykar White Dome Brooch
From £8,500
Afsaneh Shirdal Takht Ring
From £3,400
Afsaneh Senmurv Takht Ring
From £3,400
Afsaneh Ibex Takht Ring
From £3,400
Afsaneh Shahbaz Takht Ring
From £3,400
Dastan
A capsule within Afsaneh
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