Nadia has never designed for awards. She designs for the person who will wear the piece, the story it needs to carry, and the hands that will make it. That the work has been recognised, repeatedly and at the highest levels, is a reflection of what happens when those things are done with genuine care.
Below is a selection of pieces that have been acknowledged by the industry. Each one began, as all Mondial pieces do, with a conversation.
When Nadia first held the crystal opal that would become Celestine, she knew it called for something different. The result is a piece that moves, literally and emotionally. A rotating diamond-framed bezel, a cascading gold tassel, and at its heart, a rare double-sided crystal opal from Andamooka, South Australia. Currently on display at the Strand Arcade boutique.
A necklace with a fully functioning kaleidoscope at its centre. Look through the eyepiece and rotate the base, the loose coloured diamonds inside shift and turn, forming ever-changing patterns of champagne, yellow, cognac, orange, blue and pink. 32.26 carats in total, including rough diamonds in their natural form. Supreme Award winner. A piece that could only have come from Mondial.
After a record number of entries, nine designers from around the world were chosen to create pieces for the 2012 Oscars. Nadia was one of them. Tyger Tyger — inspired by beauty, glamour, mystery and spiritedness was the result. Over 18 hours of design work. 225 hours of handcrafting.
Four panels. Four seasons. Four golds, green, white, rose and yellow. Natural coloured diamonds in pink, blue, green, yellow, golden, cognac, champagne and orange, each chosen to reflect the colours and moods of a different time of year. A cuff that can also be worn as four separate pendants.
Designed by Mondial’s Master Jeweller Robert Opat. An infinity symbol, entirely handcrafted in platinum/palladium white gold, set with a round brilliant cut diamond of the finest quality. A piece about energy, continuous, deliberate, and drawn from the earth.
A cocoon that opens. Inside, a diamond butterfly. A piece about transformation, and the beauty that emerges when the time is right.
Three chakras. Three diamonds. Blue for truth, pink for love, yellow for desire and joy. The words themselves are woven discreetly into each tier, present, but only for those who look closely.
Cultured Australian South Sea pearls in 18 carat yellow gold, shaped to appear as if liquid mid-fall. Feminine and bold at once. A piece about that particular feeling and the one that’s hard to describe and impossible to forget.
Designed in collaboration with indigenous designer Alison Page. White gold wrapped in rose gold sinew, referencing traditional Aboriginal binding methods. Three cognac diamonds. A piece that carries the spirit of country.
Australian Jarrah wood and 18ct gold, finished with rutilated quartz and white diamonds. The warm colours of an Australian autumn, worn on the hand.
Jarrah wood and white diamonds on one side. Frosted rock crystal set with three Argyle pink diamonds on the other. The coloured quartz section detaches and changeable by mood, by outfit, by moment.
