coral relief

When is a piece of coral not coral? When it is made out of silver or gold rather than that diminish- ing natural resource of course. AZU is supporting the efforts of Sea Web's division Too Precious To Wear with a coral stand-in necklace for an auction to be kicked off tonight at the Rouge Tomate on the fashionable Upper East Side.
Check out the line at a new web site.
Bid on a piece at SeaWeb.

Ah, Azu.

PS Elaine has this report on WNYC today.

coral relief

When we received this invitation to SeaWeb's charity auction benefiting preservation of coral reefs, we were psyched. One of the pieces pictured (the fish) is by Tiffany's Schlumberger and the other, "Coral Relief" is by Hannah Garrison, designer and founder, AZU. Valued at $1100 in sterling with a black diamond, it will be shown at a gala event at Rouge Tomate on February 26 and auctioned on line at CharityBuzz. "For this piece, I was influenced by the reef at my granddad’s house in Jamaica and by the winter waves in my hometown, Block Island, Rhode Island," she says. "Historically, jewelers from Tibet to Peru have used coral in their designs; we still do, but as inspiration only."