This month, Solange Azagury-Partridge, the self-confessed self-taught jewellery designer celebrates three shining decades of her eponymous brand in the first book dedicated to her career, Solange: Jewellery for Chromantics. The book traces the creative journey of the former languages student who blagged her way into the London fine jewellery scene almost by mistake.
It started with a kiss. In the mid 1990s, having become engaged to her now husband, Murray Partridge, the nascent designer decided she would create her own ring. When, at last, she held out her hand to reveal a large, rough diamond precariously perched on the side of a big, bombé-style gold band, friends and acquaintances could not get enough of it. They began asking if she might turn her eye to unique jewellery designs for them, too.
