The CEO and creative director of YEWN, Dickson Yewn, is going to present his contemporary Chinese fine jewelry brand YEWN at Asia Week of New York for the first time. The exhibition will be held at Aaron Faber Gallery (666 Fifth Avenue, (entrance at West 53rd Street), New York 10103) from March 9th to March 18th 2017.

Bringing Back the Classics – Floral Lattice Collection

YEWN’s Floral.Lattice collection combines this venerable architectural art form with beautiful sights of rivers and mountains to create this masterpiece. With YEWN’S latest Lattice collection, we make the charm of these remarkable sceneries into exhilarating jewelry.

Lattice is an indispensable component of ancient Chinese architecture. Not only does it define space, expand vision and express beauty, the patterns also incorporate the abundance in color and style of Chinese culture.

Lattice is an art of wood carving. It includes techniques to make holes, circles, and gradation. The theme of Lattice textures are mostly fortuitous words, symbols and geometric patterns inlayed with glaring gold.

YEWN’s Lattice collection combines the classical Lattice idea of ruyi and yun with window frames of black diamond to create the elegant paint effect. In add to the elegance, 18K gold, white gold and diamond are used to produce both plants and animals from nature: whether it’s a dragonfly dancing through lotus leaves, a little frog sunbathing or the blossoming peony, chrysanthemum, plum blossoms from all four seasons.

How to Lock Up Your Good Fortune in Life? – Lock of Good Wishes Collection

Lock is an auspicious symbol in Chinese culture, wishing for good health and longevity.

In ancient China, due to the high mortality rate, an infant was usually given protective amulets in the shape of locks, in the hope of securing him to his family and providing him a long life. The lock could be made of copper, silver, gold, or jade, depending on the wealth of the household. In Old Beijing, families with newborns sent someone out to beg for copper coins from many households. A longevity lock, called “one hundred lives lock”, was then made for the infant from the coins.
YEWN offers a collection of fine jewelry inspired by the shape of Chinese locks, decorated with four simplified patterns of bat. Bat carries a witty hint of blessings since it shares an identical pronunciation with the world “luck” in Mandarin.

Lock of Good Wishes Ring is ornamented with a lock which can fasten one’s finger to lock up her good wishes. The Rings are set with rose cut diamonds in 18K white and blackened gold, some are decorated with black diamond, blue sapphires or rubies. The clasp of the Lock of Good Wishes Bracelet is designed to be a functional lock for security, with multi-strands of seed pearls, black diamonds, blue sapphires or ruby beads.

Modernized Chinese Art – Paper Cut Collection

Paper Cutting is a Chinese folk art of a long history. The art of cutting paper, prepared wholly by skillful manipulation of scissors, can easily be found in Chinese décor, especially during festive times like Chinese New Year. These cutouts are not only served as ornaments, but are also used as embroidery patterns. Some are exclusively cut for the embroidery of one specific piece of costume, and some are overlapped and cut through at once for different pieces of clothing and accessories that having the same pattern. Among the objects presented are mostly flowers, Chinese characters and all kinds of traditional graphics which carry auspicious meanings.

YEWN’s Paper Cut Collection is a new interpretation of the traditional art form with modern jewelry design. Inspired by the paper cut graphics, YEWN’s Creative Director Dickson Yewn imagines the real objects that the cutouts represent, such as peony, chrysanthemum, tendril and butterfly. With the use of diamonds and 18K white gold, YEWN creates pieces of wearable dazzling silhouettes, while the sophisticated details and distinctive shapes of the cutouts are well preserved.

About YEWN, Contemporary Chinese Fine Jewelry
YEWN is a seed that was sown five thousand years ago in China – it germinates when Dickson Yewn, YEWN’s CEO and creative director, creates wearable works of art with sophisticated craftsmanship in the twenty-first century, that reminds people of national treasures made by imperial artisans. Since the end of Chinese monarchy, fine jewelry inheriting the essence of traditional Chinese arts and culture are rarely made. YEWN has the vision to revive the fineness and sophistication of Chinese arts and culture, and to nurture itself to become “The Contemporary Chinese Luxury Jeweler, a distinctive jewelry brand that truly represents the only remaining civilization state of the world, China.

About YEWN and Dickson Yewn
From his childhood, Dickson Yewn has been devoting himself to painting, and always has strong attractions to Chinese arts and culture. Since 1995 when Dickson was still a full time artist, he has been designing haute couture fine jewelry for his artworks’ aficionados. The design themes include Lattice, Paper Cut, Manchurian, Lock of Good Wishes and Glorious Peony and many of these jewelry have been collected by local celebrities and overseas connoisseurs.

“YEWN” is a play on words – it is not only Dickson’s family name, but also a homonym of “affinity” and “luck” in Chinese. Good fortune and auspicious concepts are always central to Chinese philosophy and culture, represented in many different kinds of wordings, signs and art media in China.

His conceptual jewelry stores, life of circle, was selected by Forbes Magazine in 2005 as one of the top 25 stores/brand in the world, winning the category for jewelry store among other brand names such as Hermès, Manolo Blahnik and Ralph Lauren. In 2008, Yewn was invited by Sotheby’s to design a melo pearl demi-parure suite, which was glamorously sold for more than five million Hong Kong dollars.

In 2011, YEWN has become the first contemporary Chinese luxury jewelry brand chosen by the American First Lady. Michelle Obama was seen wearing YEWN’s iconic Chinese Lattice Jadeite Ring while waiting with her husband for the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. The ring caught the eyes of many of the guests at the lavish event, which included UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Oscar winner Colin Firth, English football star David Beckham, Hollywood actor Tom Hanks, and J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series.