It started with a motorbike and a love story.

In the 1950s, Fred Neuman travelled Australia as a jewellery salesman. On every trip, he’d find a piece to bring home to his wife Maria, a small, beautiful thing to mark his return. Those gestures became a collection. That collection became a business.

In 1961, Fred and Maria opened Carina Jewellers in Kings Cross, at a time when the neighbourhood was alive with emerging designers and people who wanted something different. Their first pieces were the chains, charms and pendants Fred had gathered on his travels. Among their clients over the years was a young Elton John, who chose a diamond heart pendant for his fiancée to wear on their Valentine’s Day wedding in 1984.

Through the 1970s, the Neuman's began importing exceptional jewels from around the world, distributing them to jewellers across the country and quietly shaping the Australian fine jewellery industry from behind the scenes.

By 1993, their passion for natural coloured diamonds had brought them to Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building, where Mondial became known as coloured diamond connoisseurs, holding the largest selection of natural pink diamonds in the country, underpinned by a close relationship with Western Australia’s Argyle Diamond Mine.

In 2009, Nadia opened Mondial by Nadia in the Strand Arcade. A continuation of everything that came before, and a reflection of where the story goes next.