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Jo Bell

London

WHY F&L LOVE
Jo Bell

Jo Bell has a gift for making you feel that you are in safe and knowledgeable hands. Her experience and intuition really shone through during a meeting with her, and I told F that I think this is a designer who can provide both a stunning ring and a warm relationship with her clients. Jo approaches her commissions as challenges that demand unique solutions and problem solving. She starts from the principle that a truly sensational design depends on the harmony of form and function, and she will talk to you about how your engagement ring will fit aesthetically with the wedding band. And she has some ingenious solutions!

MORE ON Jo Bell

Aug. 28 2014 Cleverly Playful Vintage Engagement Rings

Cleverly shaped and formed vintage engagement rings are Jo Bell’s forte.

More Great Designs by Jo Bell

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Jo Bell on Paris

I’m always ready to swoon over the romanticism of Parisian culture and I get the sense that Jo has also experienced this same inspiration when she lived in Paris. I can certainly see the city’s influence in her engagement ring designs. She has a particular penchant for the Art Deco style of the buildings that line the boulevards with their simplicity of line and geometrical purity. Her designs often combine the timeless elegance of the traditional engagement ring with a little twist that speaks of early 20th-century continental modernism.

Jo Bell on Colours

Jo Bell is also your woman if you like coloured stones. Her graceful settings are designed with a modest simplicity that serves to show off the glory of the stone and this opportunity cries out for an unusual coloured gem. Jo has an eye for colours: she will find you something that isn’t too synthetic in appearance, boasts a subtle and sophisticated hue and is cut in a way that enhances the stone’s inner lustre. The coloured gemstones that she works with are cut classically to maximize the beauty of their shade and tone.