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Discover Ian Douglas's expert insights on Vivienne Westwood's jewellery collection, shared ahead of the world premiere exhibition at Te Papa, Wellington. Explore the brilliance of fine jewellery and creative design. Book your tickets now.

 As we embrace the new year, we’re taking a moment to reflect on our gratitude for a 2024 filled with magical moments. From creating and crafting new designs such as the Eyre Collection, to being the first jeweller to win...

  We are delighted to introduce Eyre Collection – a series of contemporary jewellery designs showcasing rare black jade sourced from the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. Designed by Ian Douglas, founder of The Village Goldsmith, every piece from this...

We are honoured to share that we won Gold and Silver in New Zealand's Best Design Awards in the Designed Objects category for our Floeting® Diamond Signet Ring and Floeting® Diamond Vessel Ring, respectively. This recognition means we become the first New...

For more than forty years, Westpac has supported Life Flight. And for more than forty years, clients have trusted The Village Goldsmith to capture their stories and memories with extraordinary, original jewellery.   Westpac rescue helicopter Grant Elliott Adrian, our...

The Tāne pendant is the latest creation from our Maori Legends collection. After we created Maui, a stunning one-off pendant inspired by the Māori legend of Maui fishing up the North Island of New Zealand, we knew there were more stories and additions for this collection. Introducing the Tāne pendant, inspired by...

  For over forty years, clients have trusted The Village Goldsmith to capture their stories and memories with extraordinary, original jewellery. When we first introduced the Narrative Collection, our aim was to explore the theme of harmony through designs inspired by...

  We are immensely proud to have supported the CatWalk Trust since its inception in 2005. CatWalk funds innovative, world-class spinal cord injury research to cure paralysis. Helping to advance this crucial research is personal for The Village Goldsmith. Our...

We’re delighted to announce the relocation of our Auckland Jewellery Design Studio to The Crate— shared office and co-working space on the North Shore. This move allows us to continue to provide personalised, expert service to our Auckland-region clients from a...

“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?” – Zaha Hadid  Glidar ring  What defines a ring? Glidar was designed as an experiment to help answer that. It's not practical in any sense, but why should it be? It...

Our team takes immense pride in crafting extraordinary jewellery to celebrate our clients' love, anniversaries, celebrations and milestone events. These pieces serve as timeless reflections of the unique and captivating stories and memories our clients hold dear. We've compiled a short montage of some...

Our team was delighted to contribute to such a meaningful project for our community and to donate our time and 100 silver keys to help raise funds for our neighbours. We are pleased to share the fundraising auction event successfully raised $100,000 to help fund Whakamaru.  

When designing jewellery for everyday wear, a certain level of practicality must be factored in – but what if we were to let ourselves revel in the pure beauty and artistic expression of fine jewellery? The Village Goldsmith’s response to...

 This year, we donated a Bespoke Jewellery Creation Experience valued at $10,000. Life Flight’s Gala auction successfully raised a total of $107,000 to support their life saving work.  

On the 16th of February 1986 the Russian cruise liner the Mikhail Lermontov ran aground on rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough Sounds. Twenty years later amber jewellery salvaged from the ship has been reborn, reinvigorated into new striking...

Relive memories of strolling past a Harakeke bush and finding Tūīs feasting on the flax's bright yellow pollen.Inspired by Aotearoa’s most distinctive native flax, the Harakeke earrings are designed to be a minimalistic organic form. Harakeke represents whānau (family) in...

Life Flight is an iconic local non-for-profit organisation and the work they do for our community is absolutely crucial and inspiring. The team have been saving lives for more than 40 years and provided emergency aeromedical help to more than...

 A gorgeous chartreuse colour sapphire wets the lips of this golden kiss. Tasty little morsels of diamond delight are falling in front of you... How can you resist? Let your imagination run wild and find magic and beauty in the...

“If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.” - Carlo Scarpa The Scarpa Ring was designed by our talented CAD (Computer-Aided Design) Designer, Callum. The concept was born in...

We first published an article about our precious metal sourcing, refining and recycling process in 2020. Within our sustainability journey, we are constantly working with our entire team to find ways that we can improve our processes to be more...

The Floeting® Diamond's revolutionary setting design is featured as a finalist in the NZ Hi-Tech Awards 'Most Innovative Hi-Tech Hardware Product' category for 2022. "A NZ Hi-Tech Award is one of the technology sector’s most sought-after accolades. They have been...