Beau Han Xu, the award-winning jewellery designer and artist, launches DROP! and SPLASH!, his new Couture Diamond Jewellery Collections, and announces his appointment as Artist in Residence, 2017, at William & Son, Bruton Street, London W1. Other luxury partners included Rolls Royce and Ruinart.

About Beau Han Xu: 

Beau Han Xu was selected to be the first ever fashion/jewellery brand to be part of the Dyson Sponsored Innovation RCA incubator. In 2014 he was awarded first prize in a fine jewellery design competition initiated by Susannah Lovis, Burlington Arcade, as well as being selected as one of the finalists for the International Talent Support Competition (ITS). He was also selected as a finalist in the Edgard Hamon Jewellery competition, 2014. In 2015, Beau was nominated a Bright Young Gem at International Jewellery London by a prestigious panel of key media editors, together with British Fine Jewellery designer, Shaun Leane.  At the GCDC Awards 2016 – the Jewellery Oscars – Beau Han Xu was presented with two Gold Awards and a Silver.

DROP! Couture Collection

Inspired by Nature, Beau’s pieces cleverly freeze-frame beautiful moments – such as the fluid form of a falling waterdrop and then its’ transforming splash. These are moments the human eye cannot see but Beau, collaborating with scientists from Imperial College, has captured on camera the exquisitely organic shape of a waterdrop, formed by the force of gravity. These images fired his imagination and the DROP! Couture Collection was born.

This collection is undeniably romantic – with delicate drops that appear frozen in time. Each drop is hand crafted in clear perspex, and cups a Beau Cut™ diamond, threaded onto a simple, understated 18ct white, yellow or rose gold chain.

The Beau Cut™ is the perfect combination of organic form, entwined with the traditional brilliant cut shape – creating exceptional brilliance and sparkle through both the facets and the fine precision cutting by Swarovski. Applying his knowledge as a gemmologist, Beau transposed this perfect shape of a flawless water droplet onto each facet of a stone, presenting a water drop faceted diamond shape, repetitively totalling 60+1 facets or 60 facets + 1 culet.  So, from the perfect water drop shape, the Beau Cut™ was created.

SPLASH! Couture Collection

His new SPLASH! Couture Collection, like his original SPLASH! Bespoke Collection, captures the preciously beautiful moment as a raindrop bursts with a splash. Intricately crafted, the diamonds swim in a unique carrier liquid beneath the specially durable, lead-crystal glass – each movement harnessing and enhancing the reflective energy of these precious stones.

This sophisticated jewellery collection of 13 pieces transcends the constraints of traditional stone setting – marrying the art of finely crafted, hand blown glass with traditional stones. Each piece – earrings, pendants, bracelets, rings, brooch and tiara – contains up to 160 mixed sized Beau Cut™ diamonds (0.5 to 2.5 carats) to ensure maximum sparkle.  Both pendants and bracelets hang from a simple white-gold, rose-gold or yellow-gold chain.

Artist in Residency 2017 at William & Son

Clemence Devaux, Head of Jewellery at William & Son, has selected Beau Han Xu as the chosen young jewellery brand with a unique aesthetic to display alongside the William & Son in-house jewellery collection from June 2017.  Clemence comments: “Beau Han Xu is our most wildly innovative resident to date, following in the footsteps of previous artists Lily Gabriella, Sarah Ho and Morphée. We have just launched his new, luxurious SPLASH! Diamond Bespoke collection, to be followed by SPLASH! Couture in July and new collections in September and Christmas.”

Beau Han Xu adds: “It is such an honour and privilege to be invited by William & Son to be their Artist in Residence this year. I am incredibly grateful for their support and look forward to launching my collections with them in their gorgeous Bruton Street store”.