Where Beauty Has Lived For 170 Years
Posted by Kozminsky on 21st Mar 2021
This year, Kozminsky celebrates 170 years in Melbourne. Beginning during the gold rush, the first Kozminsky store sold all manner of precious and desirable objects from loose gems, gold nuggets a…
The Serpent: A Symbol of Love
Posted by Kozminsky on 19th Aug 2020
It was 1839 and Queen Victoria, as was only fitting in such circumstances, proposed to her sweetheart, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg.Unlike so many in her position, Victoria loved Albert and Albert lov…
Meaning and Memory
Posted by Kozminsky Studio on 16th Jun 2020
There’s a sense of uncertainty in the air.
I’ve given this a great deal of thought, perhaps too much.
People are asking many questions, rarely finding satisfying answers.
Art gall…
Precious Jewels
Posted by Kozminsky Studio on 13th Apr 2020
There are many things I love about my work and life.Up there with my most valued experiences is my time talking with people.Store life has many interesting facets to it, but nothing inspires me more t…
The why of beauty
Posted by Kozminsky Studio on 13th Apr 2020
In a world where we are trying to make sense of the inexplicable, beauty is more necessary to our living than ever.
Our eyes hunger for an object to rest our gaze on.
It’s as if another sense r…
The Two of Us
Posted by Kozminsky Studio on 3rd Dec 2019
As we celebrate two years in our Collins Street Studio, we would like to thank you, our wonderful clients who have supported us on the journey.Below is the link to the Good Weekend article, The Two of…
The Pirate Ring
Posted by Kozminsky Studio on 6th Nov 2019
A
symbol love, commitment and hope.
The
story begans 40 years ago when mum and dad decided to flee Saigon with me and
my two brothers. We left behind my grand-father and auntie.
We crossed…
Kozminsky...my life’s work
Posted by Kozminsky Studio on 15th Jul 2019
Freud is quoted as saying “work is love”
In many ways those words are true for me.
Kozminsky has been an integral part of my life
since I first learnt to speak.
My earliest memories a…
Memories are made of this
Posted by Kozminsky Studio on 8th Jul 2019
I wear an old cut diamond ring set in onyx and gold on my wedding ring finger.It did not start its life in this form.Twenty-four years ago I married the love of my life John Lonergan. It was a second…
What is Precious?
Posted by Kozminsky Studio on 28th Jun 2019
A bird’s nest fallen to the ground, an autumn leaf, a shell washed up on the shore, all precious treasures without a price.A diamond perhaps the most well-known “precious” of gems may be precious, but…