Jewellery is entering a more expressive era, where familiar forms are being reconsidered through unexpected silhouettes, vivid colour and ideas borrowed from architecture and the natural world. These five pieces capture that shift beautifully, moving from an ear cuff inspired by Moroccan mosaics to botanical forms, dragonflies and a garden alive with precious creatures. Designed by some of India’s most imaginative jewellery houses, each one offers a distinctive perspective on what contemporary adornment can look like.
The Moroccan Arch
Vummidi Bangaru Jewellers looks to the changing colours and geometry of Morocco for The Moroccan Arch, an ear cuff that makes architecture feel strikingly contemporary. As the Moroccan sky shifts from azure to twilight, its colours settle within intricate mosaics, preserving a timeless dialogue between light and architecture. Sculptural and unexpected, the piece transforms the ear into a canvas for pattern, colour and modern self-expression.
The Silk Rosette
With The Silk Rosette, Aabushan Jewels captures nature at its most delicate. Silk drapes like a verdant leaf, while blossoms emerge in graceful spirals, preserving a fleeting moment where nature blooms in perfect serenity. The pairing of rich green silk with sculptural floral jewellery gives the design an almost tactile quality, balancing softness with statement-making form.
The Verdoyance
C. Krishniah Chetty & Sons turns foliage into sculpture with The Verdoyance. Like a verdant canopy awakened by the breeze, layered leaves unfold in fluid succession, composing a living sculpture where nature reveals its most exquisite artistry. The saturated green palette and dimensional arrangement give the earrings a sense of movement, as though the leaves have been caught mid-flutter.
The Azure Waltz
The Azure Waltz by Khurana Jewellery House takes its cue from one of nature’s most graceful creatures. Above tranquil waters, the dragonfly unfurls its sapphire-touched wings, where carved silhouettes and endless skies meet in a graceful dance of light. With their elongated forms, blue accents and finely articulated wings, the earrings bring a lyrical sense of movement to contemporary jewellery design.
The Jardin Sauvage
Symetree by Haritsons Designs creates an entire miniature ecosystem with The Jardin Sauvage. Among the wildest gardens, bees, moths and dragonflies become nature’s precious companions, weaving an endless ballet of colour, curiosity and effortless elegance. The necklace brings these creatures together in an exuberant composition, where turquoise tones, intricate detailing and playful forms celebrate the untamed beauty of the natural world.
Together, these designs reflect the creative breadth celebrated at the 21st Retail Jeweller India Awards 2026, where innovation, craftsmanship and original thinking take centre stage. From the winning creation by Vummidi Bangaru Jewellers to the nominated pieces by Aabushan Jewels, C. Krishniah Chetty & Sons, Khurana Jewellery House and Symetree by Haritsons Designs, each offers a compelling glimpse into the ideas shaping the next generation of Indian jewellery.
