ABOUT
Jewelry designer Floor Wetemans studied Gold- and Silversmithing at the Vocational School in Schoonhoven in 1994. During her studies in The Netherlands and love for natural gemstones she started a course in gemmology at the Gemmological Association of Great Britain (GEM-A).
After this she obtained a degree in jewelry design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, in Belgium.
She received awards from the jewelry industry including the Wim Ibens Prize (Laureate) for product development and innovation and a finalist place at the International Diamond High Council Award. After graduating Floor has started up her studio where she makes jewels with love and attention.
Her jewelry is rooted in modernist form and design without compromising sentimental value. Each piece is conceived as something to live with. Core and statement works intended to carry through life and, in time, be passed on.
During the past 20 years she gained a broad network of reliable suppliers for gold, precious stones and pearls and works close, among others, with the best setters , polishers and engravers in Antwerp and The Netherlands.
She is living and working in Antwerp, Belgium