A MISUI piece comes from a way of being in the world. It starts with the craft: the way we work shapes the way we see, and the pieces carry it without a word. One of the places where you can see it is in the cut of a stone.
MISUI brings in designers and asks them to speak within that language. What follows is MISUI's work: finding the technical answers and innovating in the cutting of gems. Some cuts were created here, from a designer's drawings. Others were recognized elsewhere and brought in, because they already belonged to the same world.
What they have in common is what happens once they leave us and become a part of you. Wearing one is a way of taking that view of the world and making it yours, and each of these five cuts is a different way of saying who you are.
Here Monzó works with light rather than weight.
The baguette is a long, narrow cut, usually placed beside a larger stone. Stretched further than usual, it stops reading as a gem and becomes a line of light. He sets these lines around emptiness to celebrate it, crosses them to cast shadows that should not be there, breaks them to see how the light answers. In platinum, across rings, earrings and pendants.
They are worn the way light behaves: quietly, and then all at once, when you move and the room catches up.
Marta Boan works with two shapes that complement each other. Two half circles close around a square: femininity and masculinity, held in one stone, neither complete alone. The shape becomes a small module in gold, repeated along the piece the way you repeat something that matters.
These pieces stay small and close to the skin, where the important things are usually said quietly. They are not for being noticed from a distance. They are for the person wearing them, and for whoever is close enough to see.
Some cuts already exist, and the work is to recognize them.
The Spirit Sun was conceived by Bernd Munsteiner, the German cutter who changed the way gemstones are understood. He worked in Stipshausen, a small German town. His cut is round, and every one of its facets is a triangle, sixteen above and sixteen below, all turning around one centre, so the stone seems to move with the light.
Marc Monzó answered it with three. Third Spirit revolves around that number: three gems to a ring, framed in gold that keeps the triangle on every plane. Each piece is made once and never again, which means the one you choose will only ever belong to you.
KLAR begins on paper.
Estela Guitart drew the shapes she wanted, and Atelier Munsteiner made them real, for MISUI alone. A few careful incisions open several facets inside a single gem and lift its brightness further than expected.
The stones are left as they are: aquamarine, morganite, citrine, golden beryl, amethyst and sunstone, in the soft tones that belong to them, brought together for the way one colour reads beside another. The gold that frames them is subtle, and light enough to let the stones say everything. You wear them the way you wear a colour that suits you, without thinking about it.
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For Marc Monzó, a solitaire is a circle and a point of light, and what happens between them.
He takes away the Pavillion from the cut, the part that lives hidden inside the setting, and what remains is flat, keeping all its light along the edge. The structure is drawn just as flatly, the bare bones of a ring. Nothing is added back, nothing essential is missing, and what reaches your hand weighs almost nothing and says everything. In diamond it becomes pure light. In sapphire, colour. You choose the one that feels like you.
Its name comes from binary code, ones and zeros: the smallest language there is, and the one that says the most with the least.
The same conviction runs through it all. Platinum, because a metal should be what it looks like. Gold with an origin you can name. Stones kept close to the way they grew, cut so the light leaves where always meant to.
Nothing here is asking just to be looked at. These pieces are made to be lived in, to sit on your skin, and to become, over the years, part of how you recognize yourself.