Annalisa Cervi
Born in Valenza, Italy, also named “the golden city,” Annalisa spent her childhood surrounded by art, beautiful jewelry, and gemstones, and a culturally rich and sophisticated environment, being the third generation of a jeweler’s family.
She grew up in the countryside, immersed in the beauty of the nature of her splendid family house, located in the Monferrato area, one of the most important wine districts of Italy, also renowned for the strong literacy tradition, the beautiful castles, and historical sites.
Besides jewelry, horses were Annalisa’s family passion. At the age of three, she started to learn horseback riding trained by her dad and her older brother. Soon she discovered also a great passion and talent for dance.
Since a very early age she loved to follow her dad into his workshop and observe him while he was creating his wonderful jewels, she was fascinated by everything around her; the stone’s colors, the technique, and tools used but mostly the precision and search of perfection in her dad’s crafts.
Her talent as designer was shown since she was very little, she used to spend hours drawing, particularly outfits for her dolls and then, helped by her Mom, which was a very talented and renowned shoe designer and maker, Annalisa learned how to realize her little creations.
Jewelry, fashion, art, culture, elegance, and sophistication, were the symphony of elements in Annalisa’s surrounding heritage. Her strong desire to express her creativity and the passion for the art of jewelry grew even more after she enrolled at the Valenza’s Institute of Art B. Cellini and started working after school in her brother’s workshop as designer and wax carver.
Her talent was noted during the school years and she graduated with special merits, receiving a job offer for the position as junior designer from Damiani, one of the most famous Italian jewelry brands, right after college. Annalisa accepted the position but also continued in parallel her study of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Turin.
Annalisa’s exceptional design skills and her elegant and feminine taste made her be noticed again when she participated, presenting few designs, at the annual De Beers Diamonds International Award and all her designs where selected as finalists.
After just one year at Damiani she was promoted and relocated at the Milan showroom with the new position as Senior Designer for the VIP customers where she was in charge of creating the special orders and the one of a kind pieces for the celebrity customers of the mason. Her talent started to be known in the industry and new opportunities arrived for Annalisa after just few years.
In 1998 she accepted a position of Head of Design and Product Development at Pasquale Bruni, one of the most brilliant Jewelry Designers, an experience that influenced her entire career. In 2000 Annalisa opened her own Design Studio in Valenza and that was the real beginning of her international success.
Thanks to her innate talent, her passion for details, the continued research of femininity and elegance and the desire to learn and open her view, she obtained the attention of the most prestigious International Jewelry, Watches and Fashion Brands and she started traveling around the world to collaborate with them on creating their jewelry collections.
She has collaborated with Brands such as Roberto Coin, Graff, Harry Winston, Versace, Benneton, Faberge’, Bottega Veneta, Ippolita, Canadian Ice Diamonds, Paolo Costagli, Belle Etoile, just to mention a few.
In 2008 she moved to Thailand where she lived with her husband and her two kids until 2014, being able to expand her knowledge of the Asian market, working for the most renowned Asian Brands.
During this time, she won the first price at the JCK Jewelry Show Contest 2011 in Las Vegas in the category “Bangle under 10.000 $. She won the first price at the JCK Jewelry Show Contest 2012 in Las Vegas in the category “Ring under 2.500 $.
She won the Merit Award at the International Jewellery Design Excellence Award 2013 of Hong Kong with the “Anastasia Italian Resin Cuff.” In 2014 she moved to New York where she accepted a position of Design and Product Development Director at David Yurman working side to side with Mr. and Mrs. Yurman.
At the end of 2015, Annalisa decided was time to reopened her Design Studio in NY, start collaborating again with the American’s most prestigious Jewelry and Fashion Brands. In 2016 one of her bigger dream became true, she was engaged by Ralph Lauren for the creation of their High-End Jewelry collection. Since she was a child her admiration for the fashion brand was incredible, and for Annalisa, finally have the honor of collaborating side to side with Mr. Lauren, sharing their vision and creating together, was a priceless experience!
Her career and reputation started expending and growing also in the Art world. In the same year, she also had the privilege to collaborate with the international renown Spanish Artist Juan Ripolles, for the creation of his jewelry pieces.
She travelled few times to Spain where she stayed at the artist house, to work together with him, studying, capturing and learning his style and secrets to transfer then into the jewels for him created. Another priceless and unforgettable experience that have been the beginning for Annalisa to start painting and sculping herself.
In 2019, Annalisa and her family decided to move to the West Coast, where today she lives with her family in the beautiful Newport Beach. After collaborating with many renown brands in the west and south west as Martin Katz, Kabana, Jude Frances, Sheryl Lowe and Lugano Diamonds to name a few, and especially after the hit of COVID-19, Annalisa decided that was the time to celebrate what’s really important in life and share directly her work, passion and love with the world.
The Jewellery Artist Studio opened this year, where Annalisa meets for a one on one experience with her customers, designing and creating for them one of a kind pieces that are not just beautifully crafted, but each one is extremely meaningful for the person who owns it, capturing and carrying their stories and emotions.
Find out more at www.annalisacervidesign.com
Marco Rametti
Born in Italy, Marco is the second generation in the jewelry business.
Both his parents worked in Valenza, which is known as the Gold City, making one of kind jewelry for many important Italian brands.
When he was a kid, he spent a lot of time at his father’s workshop and so he grew up surrounded by jewelry.
Marco started to work at the bench when he was 14 years old, when he enrolled at Valenza’s Institute of Art B. Cellini.
During his school years he had the opportunity to do internships at some of the most important manufactories in Valenza, producing pieces for brands like Bulgari and Boucheron, to name a few.
At that time, he won a prestigious design award from the De Beers, one of the world’s biggest diamond traders. For the contest, Marco drew a pair of earrings which were brought to life in platinum by a Valenza brand, Monile. His drawing and the final piece were then published in the magazine, Vogue Gioielli.
After the graduation, Marco started his career as a model maker and wax carver in a company specialized in one of a kind pieces for princesses around the world.
Two years later, he opened his own company in Valenza, where he created pieces for local and international customers.
About a decade later, he decided to move to Thailand with his family for a totally new experience. There, he worked as a production and product development director in a big manufactory with hundreds of workers.
But his dream was to always live in America, and when the opportunity arrived, Marco moved to New York and started working for prestigious brands in NYC.
During the six years in New York Marco had the honor to serve as a volunteer firefighter in his local fire department in Westchester County.
Two years ago, Marco and his family moved to California where he opened his own manufactory, where he makes exclusive one of a kind pieces for his clients.
Find out more at www.marcoramettijewelrymanufacturing.com
Ari Sezgin
Born in Istanbul Turkey from Armenian parents, Ari was exposed to art, music and unique craftmanship since a very young age. His father and uncle were renown in the area as special order shoe makers, while his mom was a tailor. Ari’s sister followed her passion for music and she’s a piano teacher now as well as other members of their family.
Ari was just 12 when he discovered his passion for gemstone and jewelry, visiting his cousin’s jewelry store at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.
That summer instead of playing and having fun as the other kids, he asked his cousin if he could learn to set diamonds and be an apprentice at his store. He had to take every day 3 different transportations in order to get there, including a boat to cross the Bosphorus River.
Ari enrolled into Yjldiz University to study Electrical Engineering but his passion for jewelry and gemstones made him realize that, that was the path he wanted to pursue, so he joined permanently his cousin at the jewelry store to improve his skills as diamonds setter and learn even more.
During his years of apprenticeship, Ari learned how to carve wax, cast metal, polish and plating jewelry. His passion and desire to learn made him became not just a master setter but a full trained master jeweler.
In 1984 Ari moved to the United States and settled in Los Angeles where, after working in a jewelry store for two years, was able to open his own store.
During all those years, Ari established his business, becoming a point of reference for big jewelry brands and designers looking for quality and perfection, but also for young jewelers that wanted to learn and mastering the art of gemstone setting.
Overall those years he created so many pieces but still every time he starts a new project, he is excited as the first time.
Love, patience and dedications are the key factors that brought him to become the top master setter he is today.
tonia kempler
Tonia Kempler lives in New York, though her roots run deep in a rural south still steeped in the occult traditions of the Gullah Geechee and the animism of the Cherokees.
Surrounded and empowered by the lore and practices of these mystical cultures, Tonia leans toward macabre worlds with isolated, damaged, yet capable and empathic female leads.
This personal connection drives her concentration on supernatural horror/ thrillers, and dark comedies, including features, pilots, shorts, web series, podcasts, and more recently graphic novels.
Her approach to storytelling and understanding audience engagement is fortified by a career in the Music Industry, including concert production and managing Grammy Award-Winning producers, engineers and songwriters.
Recent accomplishments include a No. 1 best-selling comic, multi- award winning short films, placement in Page Awards, The Austin Film Festival, and The ScreenCraft Fellowship among others.
Tonia is an inspired Top Tier Roadmap Writer and an active 51/50 international workshop member with the Academy of Film Writing.
In addition, Tonia is an industry script reader for the Austin Film Festival and Cinestory, among others.
Find out more at www.bellementertainment.com
ORLANDO calzada
Orlando Calzada was born and raised in San Juan Puerto Rico, where he developed as a musician, composer and recording engineer.
He has worked with many different artists, among them: 33DC, Jerry Rivera, Domingo Quinones, Zona Roja, Rene Gonzalez; Zafra Negra, Charlie Hernandez, Brian Duncan, Lucesita Benitez and Edwin Cotto.
Orlando Calzada is a graduate from Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts in Florida.
In 1998 Orlando moved to Atlanta, Georgia were he has worked with artists and producers such as: Virtue, TLC; 3LW, Tina Novak, B2K, Monica, Deleon, Rossete, Billy Crawford and Mya.
His talents and dedication as a recording engineer lead to a Grammy Award in 2001 from the album’s title song “Survivor”, by Destiny’s Child.
Later Orlando moved to New York City to work with the renowned Producer Cory Rooney.
Alongside Cory Rooney, Orlando has participated on projects for Jessica Simpson, Christina Milian, Rissi Palmer, Jenifer Lopes and Thalia.
Orlando has worked as Chief of Engineer, Audio Engineer and Audio Production Manager for Spere- Rec. /Arista & She-kspere Productions, Mark Cory Rooney, E1212, Play Bach and Crawford Communications, among others.
Orlando has worked Producing and Mixing songs for artists like RBD, Kat the Luna, Lady Gaga, Tami Chynn, Menudo, Melanie Iglesias, Maite Perroni, Cristofer Ukerman, Pewee, Lords Of The South ( L.O.S.), JLS, Elise Estrada, Zander Bleck, One direction and many others.
In 2011 he worked as FOH for American singer-songwriter – Prince Royce.
In 2012 he had worked as Monitor Engineer for Metamorfosis world tour by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona.