Mehr

Romantic bridal pieces, chosen for warmth and colour.

Mehr is the Persian word for love and for the sun at once, the root behind Mithra, the ancient guardian of light and covenant. It is the name Silux gives to its engagement collection, where every ring is built to mark a promise kept in warmth rather than in cold brilliance alone. The Chinar ring opens the collection with a pear-cut pink sapphire set inside Persian geometric engraving, a shape having a real moment right now, rendered here in a form found nowhere else. Golnar follows as the collection's quieter statement, a ring that lets the moment itself be the only ornament it needs. Across the collection, warmth runs through the stone rather than the setting alone.

Some rings in Mehr carry a story further back. Kohestar sets a sapphire inside a shamseh star, drawn from the belief Persian astronomers held about the Alborz peaks: that they carried stars within them, visible only to those who climbed high enough to see them. Not metaphor, but a cosmology that placed the sacred inside the physical world. Laleh sets a ruby inside a tulip petal, the flower Hafez returned to in verse and Safavid weavers mapped across their carpets for centuries, its crimson cup carrying a single drop of devotion at its heart. Sepideh carries the boteh, the teardrop motif found in Persian textiles and tilework for over a thousand years, sometimes described as a bent cypress tree. Each ring holds its motif quietly, in the setting rather than announced across the band.

Where Kohestar and Laleh reach into myth and poetry, the last two rings in Mehr reach into colour itself. Shab-rang was designed around a single idea: the colour of the Persian night sky. Its oval tanzanite shifts from deep blue to violet with the light, a stone named for the Tanzanian mountains where it is found. Simin closes the collection in champagne diamond, cut round brilliant to prove that warm colour carries as much fire and brilliance as any colourless stone. Mehr runs from Laleh at £2,800 to Golnar at £5,800, every ring solid gold and made to order in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, each one built for the single promise it is meant to hold.