Wallace Chan
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Wallace Chan was born into a very traditional cultural environment in China. Having completed rigorous training as a sculptor he enrolled in formal art courses. Even though Wallace advocates against the guidelines set by academia, the traditional principles of art constitute the foundation of his creative genius.
His next creative stage saw the birth of 'Wallace Cut' sculpting techniques featuring medieval style cameos, intaglio carving and gem faceting. In this decadeWallace acquired fame for his exquisite work first in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Germany and then the rest of Europe. Since 2001 Wallace has dedicated himself to the creation of jewels as art pieces.
His profound knowledge of metallurgy and gemmology are now the vehicles through which he achieves a kaleidoscope of colours in his jewellery. No particular shape or mixture of metals is too much of a challenge for him. He is known to destroy completed pieces if they are not perfect in his eyes.
Wallace has achieved international acclaim as a designer and exhibits at international jewellery fairs and museums around the world. Mediarescue Pro Crack more. His jewellery creations are eagerly sought after by jewellery connoisseurs in Europe Japan and Taiwan.
HONG KONG —, the Hong Kong jeweler behind the creation of what has been called the world’s most expensive diamond necklace, began working with his hands when he was 8 years old. In the 1960s his family migrated from the impoverished Fujian Province to Hong Kong, where they made money from odd jobs. The boy was put to work on repetitive tasks best done by small hands, like spooling yarn or assembling cheap decorative goods. “We made plastic flowers until our fingers bled,” he said, speaking in Cantonese during an interview at his studio. “We got 10 cents for every bag of plastic flowers.
I still remember — and for 15 cents we could get two pineapple buns.” Mr. Chan, 59, now works in an upstairs studio in Central Hong Kong, something of a fortress, with double electronically locked doors.
A slight man with a long gray beard, wearing a plain black suit, he sat in a back room — a black cloth thrown over his desk, the shades drawn against the sunlight — and assessed bag after bag of uncut, unpolished stones, each one the size of a golf ball. In September, Mr. Chan unveiled A Heritage in Bloom, called the world’s most expensive diamond necklace, at an estimated cost of $200 million. Its 11,551 diamonds, with jade pieces to create the butterflies and bats that Mr. Chan loves, total 383 carats; the centerpiece diamond alone weighs 104 carats. The project started in 2010 when Chow Tai Fook, a Hong Kong jewelry company, acquired an extremely rare, unpolished 507-carat diamond found in the Cullinan mine in South Africa. Trivial Pursuit Unlimited Pc Ita Download Skype on this page. It commissioned Mr.