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"Each MaeVona engagement and wedding ring feels exquisite when you pick it up. Each engagement ring is like a beautiful watch or an antique jewel, you just know it is special. The details are everything - the curves, the softness, the weight, the finish - it makes you feel unique, and gives confidence that the piece will last a lifetime. Nothing else feels like it. Like in love, you should laugh out loud and be filled with joy. You will know this is The One."
A MaeVona Engagement Ring
MAEVONA is Maeve Gillies's creation; her life, her love, her vision. Truly a young woman with exceptional artistic and entrepreneurial talent, this is her story so far...
About MaeVona
Maeve is a multi-award-winning Scottish engagement and wedding ring designer and jeweler, who grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a nationally acclaimed artistic, literary and musical family. Constantly exploring, thinking and drawing, Maeve demonstrated considerable artistic and musical talent from early age.
Maeve was six times champion at Scotland's annual music awards, The National Mod, for her performance on the 'clarsach' - the Scottish harp - one of the oldest instruments in Celtic history.
Maeve's future in jewelry began by chance at age 15, trying out goldsmithing with a jeweler friend; Maeve discovered an all-consuming passion for jewelry overnight.
Maeve went on to complete a traditional training, with two degrees in jewelry and goldsmithing - firstly from the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, then a Masters degree from the prestigious Royal College of Art in London. She is the recipient of several national jewelry design awards, including three from the Royal Society for the Arts in London.
At the same time as her practical training, Maeve worked in a family-run retail jewelry store, where diamond engagement and wedding rings were her favorite sale. "Working with customers had such an influence on me", Maeve says. "I came to understand which designs work, and which don't. To anticipate what makes someone feel special is so important."
Maeve's quest to combine the creative and the commercial has taken her all around the world - designing, developing jewelry factories and working with young artists and traditional craftsmen, across Asia, Australia, America and Europe, Maeve also spent three years as Head of Design for Domino, the largest platinum jewelry manufacturer in Europe, selling 35,000 rings a year in 30 countries.
This in-depth focus on luxury jewelry manufacturing that appealed to a sophisticated consumer was the perfect preparation for Maeve's ultimate vision - MAEVONA.
Engagement and Wedding Rings by MaeVona
In 2005 Maeve co-founded MAEVONA in New York City, with long-term friend and inspirational business partner Kenneth Cowin. Maeve's award-winning jewelry designs have now made MAEVONA a sought-after global engagement and wedding ring phenomenon. Maeve travels worldwide to meet her customers in person, enthusing everyone she meets with her passion for incredible jewelery design that will last a lifetime.
