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The new collection of Asheville by the David Webb family uses a unique floral pattern, but it would be wrong to say that it is directly derived from a specific flower genus, or even from the company's powerful design archive. "We intend to express a typical flower," David Webb co-owner and creative director Mark Emanuel said in a series of notes. The flowers he and his team imagined — cabochons and bead clusters juxtaposed with gold chains and enamel — introduced a whole new element to David Weber's dictionary.

But the cultural atmosphere that inspired the direction of design found its roots at a similar moment in history: the youth earthquake in the 1960s. An era of social turmoil, yes, but also an era of flower girls and daisy chains. "Design follows cultural and social events," Emanuel points out. "People have an urge to reject the darkness, just like the golden age of the world's awakening from 1963 to 1975."

Back then and now, this flower symbolized the changes of the times, the reverence for nature, and the awakening of the mind and spirit.

The series consists of eight works and two different color schemes, named after Webb's hometown in North Carolina, where the designer received the earliest jewelry making education and developed a keen interest in gardens and flowers.

Under the guidance of Emanuel, the design team re-examined more than 100 existing styles and created a unique chain. Weight, curve and boldness, it is a modern descendant of the David Webb universe. Emanuel said that the juxtaposed flowers and chains reveal "the combined power of strength and femininity."

And the current collective impulse to embrace an optimistic and bright attitude, evoke the past, and at the same time be firmly bound to the current variable rhythm. "Let the sun come in" is what we can do.

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Above: The legendary jeweler David Webb believed that in the 1960s, "Today's élégante wanted her fashion to express something", and the new Asheville series centered on floral patterns proved the same today. 18K gold and platinum Asheville bracelet with cabochon rubies, pink opals, emerald beads, carved turquoise, brilliant-cut diamonds and white enamel, $29,500; David Weber

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