Icaro is Brazilian, young, and speaks Portuguese, English, French, Italian and Spanish. He was born in São Paulo and at only 33 years old, is an incredibly talented and gifted designer. He improved his skills at the Instituto Europeo di Design, and was then accepted by the Creative Academy at the Richemond Group in Milan. He served an internship at Cartier in Paris; then came to master the technique in gouache at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and went on to build his reputation by working for private clients and luxury fashion brands around the world.
In 2015 he founded ‘The Luxury Studio’ and was granted a scholarship to attend the Graduate Gemologist course at the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) in London. He also won the Tahitian Pearl Trophy and now work as Creative Director for Greenland Ruby and as Jewelry Designer for Jewelmer in Manila, Philippines. What else can we say? Oh, we forgot to mention that he is the creative director of the Dazzling Books, a book collection specialised in gems and jewelry founded in Paris from a partnership with the important French journalist Didier Brodbeck, and also he is part of the GIA Alumni Member for the impressive achievement of eight diplomas.
Graduated in Gemology at the Gemological Institute of America in London, or GIA, he has earned several diplomas in the most diverse degrees offered, such as CAD/CAM, specialisation in coloured stones and diamonds, always awarded with scholarships.
Brazil, Tahiti, England, Italy, France, India and Thailand were the countries where Icaro participated in competitions and won 11 awards as a jeweller and designer. These achievements were essential to push his career forward.
He teaches gemology by hosting a biannual workshop focused on the appraisal of coloured gems at Minoss Academy, a renowned South Korean jewellery school, for students of all courses at this institution in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
Icaro worked as a designer in famous international jewellery stores, but his greatest achievement was working as a designer in the creative department of Maison Cartier, in Paris, at the brand's main studio, developing high luxury products.
In 2015, he founded The Luxury Studio, a company responsible for various jewellery-related projects, such as book publishing, art direction, marketing strategies, journalism and presence at international events and exhibitions.
Icaro is responsible for the art direction of the Dazzling Books collection, edited and produced in Paris by journalist Didier Brodbeck, one of the world's leading experts in fine jewelry and watchmaking.
Art jewelry is one of the names given to jewelry created by studio craftspeople. As the name suggests, art jewelry emphasizes creative expression and design, and is characterized by the use of a variety of materials, often commonplace or of low economic value. In this sense, it forms a counterbalance to the use of “precious materials” (such as gold, silver and gemstones) in conventional or fine jewelry, where the value of the object is tied to the value of the materials from which it is made. Art jewelry is related to studio craft in other media such as glass, wood, plastics and clay; it shares beliefs and values, education and training, circumstances of production, and networks of distribution and publicity with the wider field of studio craft. Art jewelry also has links to fine art and design.
While the history of art jewelry usually begins with modernist jewelry in the United States in the 1940s, followed by the artistic experiments of German goldsmiths in the 1950s, a number of the values and beliefs that inform art jewelry can be found in the arts and crafts movement of the late nineteenth century. Many regions, such as North America, Europe, Australasia and parts of Asia have flourishing art jewelry scenes, while other places such as South America and Africa have been developing the infrastructure of teaching institutions, dealer galleries, writers, collectors and museums that sustain art jewelry.
“Jewelry was the art I chose to express my definition of beauty. If I were a painter, my paints would be colored gems, and the human body would be my blank canvas.”
Icaro Carlos, GIA Graduate Gemologist and Accredited Jewelry Professional. Graduated also in Jewelry Design at the Istituto Europeu di Design and Creative Academy in Milano, and at the Ècole du Louvre, in Paris.
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