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Hello, I’m Muktar Onifade, founder and designer of GVDŠ JEWELS. Move your finger or your cursor across this page: the paint follows you, as it does across our site. My background is in mechanical engineering, and I bring that attention to structure and detail into jewelry inspired by my Yoruba heritage. Our first collection, Born to Love, launched this week, with each piece made to order. Write to me at hello@gvdsjewels.com. Every piece is made to order, and every letter is read.
Warmly,
Muktar Onifade
Founder & Designer, GVDŠ JEWELS
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The Coral Beads Necklace
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For my mother, Abike. Her name inspired Born to Love; her love inspired every detail.
by Muktar Onifade |
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Born to Love · The first piece
Price on request |
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Inspired by the royal coral adornments of Yoruba and Benin, GVDŠ finds a new expression of heritage in the intricate surface of Mediterranean red coral. Its organic texture becomes a tapestry of ruby-red pavé, framed in luminous gold. Ornate Kiffa beads and ruby-red and olive simulated stones bring depth and rhythm to the composition, completed by a custom stone-set GVDŠ lock.
Crafted in 925 sterling silver plated in 18K yellow gold with simulated stones, or by commission in solid gold.
Commission it in gold |
Drawn to a tolerance, built around a working mechanism. Every bead is set to sit true, every stone is cut to throw light back, and the GVDŠ lock closes with a sound you can trust. |
 [Lock] The GVDŠ lock
Twin engraved barrels
Simulated ruby-red, set in the pattern |  [Links] Pavé beads
Link by link
Simulated ruby-red, set to sit true |  [Setting] The rosette setting
Simulated olive round
Held in a beaded crown |  [Bracelet] The bracelet
End to end
Stone-set GVDŠ lock at each end |
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 [Stone] Simulated ruby-red
Oval cut
Faceted to catch the light |  [Necklace] The Coral Beads Necklace
Simulated ruby-red oval · olive rounds
Ruby-red pavé beads · Kiffa forms
925 silver, 18K gold-plated
Stone-set GVDŠ lock |  [Stone] Simulated olive
Round cut
Faceted for fire |
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Any GVDŠ piece in solid 10K, 14K, 18K or 22K gold with lab-grown diamonds. Every commission is priced by private quote, as the weight of gold and the stones set the cost. Tell us what you have in mind. Your quote follows within 1–2 business days.
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Founder & creative director GVDŠ JEWELS brings an engineer’s eye to jewellery. Its founder and creative director, Muktar Onifade, trained at Georgia Tech and worked in calibration at General Motors. That discipline informs how he designs for the body, from the spacing that gives a strand its curve to the precise fit of a stone-set lock. Onifade launched GVDŠ in Lagos in 2020 with ready-to-wear, handbags and jewellery. Today, his focus is GVDŠ JEWELS. Dedicated to his mother, Abike, its debut collection, Born to Love, draws on Yoruba and Benin traditions of coral adornment. In the made-to-order Coral Beads necklace and bracelet, the lock carries the rhythm of the strand all the way to the point where its ends meet. |
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