MANIA ZAMANI is the exquisite result of one woman’s life journey. An odyssey that took her from her native Tehran to New York, her adopted home.
As a child, MANIA ZAMANI was fascinated with architecture and minerals. Her passion for precious stones came from a deeply rooted Persian tradition: In Iranian culture, precious gemstones and gold are given to newborns and newlyweds. Jewelry thus becomes a symbol of profound ties with family and friends.
MANIA ZAMANI's interest in the proportions and patterns of natural phenomena drew her to mathematics, which she studied at university. Her search for the true and timeless measure of harmony explains to this day the pivotal role of maths and geometry in her work on fine jewelry.
Her restless search for beauty and science in precious stones led MANIA ZAMANI to New York, where she studied gemology and jewelry design at the Gemological Institute of America. She later continued feeding her passion for fine jewelry at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Today, MANIA ZAMANI's is a cohesive vision based on architectural form and principle; a material essay on mathematical proportions and geometric shape. The constructive possibilities of fine jewelry and their technical challenges are what drive the designer. ZAMANI's preoccupation is with buildings made of lines, angles and squares yet her interpretation of texture and color is modern, highly stylistic and undeniably feminine.
"What fascinates me about fine jewelry goes beyond gemstones taking millions of years to form", explains MANIA ZAMANI. "Precious stones have deep geopolitical, historical and cultural significance. Crucially, jewelry is design meant to be worn in real life - today, just as it was centuries ago and will be ages from now".
MANIA ZAMANI is the exquisite result of one woman’s life journey. An odyssey that took her from her native Tehran to New York, her adopted home.
As a child, MANIA ZAMANI was fascinated with architecture and minerals. Her passion for precious stones came from a deeply rooted Persian tradition: In Iranian culture, precious gemstones and gold are given to newborns and newlyweds. Jewelry thus becomes a symbol of profound ties with family and friends.
MANIA ZAMANI's interest in the proportions and patterns of natural phenomena drew her to mathematics, which she studied at university. Her search for the true and timeless measure of harmony explains to this day the pivotal role of maths and geometry in her work on fine jewelry.
Her restless search for beauty and science in precious stones led MANIA ZAMANI to New York, where she studied gemology and jewelry design at the Gemological Institute of America. She later continued feeding her passion for fine jewelry at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Today, MANIA ZAMANI's is a cohesive vision based on architectural form and principle; a material essay on mathematical proportions and geometric shape. The constructive possibilities of fine jewelry and their technical challenges are what drive the designer. ZAMANI's preoccupation is with buildings made of lines, angles and squares yet her interpretation of texture and color is modern, highly stylistic and undeniably feminine.
"What fascinates me about fine jewelry goes beyond gemstones taking millions of years to form", explains MANIA ZAMANI. "Precious stones have deep geopolitical, historical and cultural significance. Crucially, jewelry is design meant to be worn in real life - today, just as it was centuries ago and will be ages from now".