Designer tanzanite.(JEWELRY SCENE)

Modern Jeweler, May, 2006

As part of its efforts to promote tanzanite to consumers around the world, the Tanzanite Foundation is encouraging jewelry designers to create new collections featuring the intense violet-blue gemstone. The first two designer tanzanite collections will launch this May in Las Vegas.

The award-winning design duo, Anthony Camargo and Nak Armstrong of Anthony Nak, Austin, Texas, have created couture and commercial pieces that "celebrate the vitality of nature." Stylized, twirling birch scroll work with diamond pave creates a feel that is simultaneously opulent and organic. The couture collection includes a 16 carat tanzanite and platinum scrolled openwork cuff bracelet that retails for $100,000 and matching 7 carat tanzanite drop earrings that retail for $50,000....