Prounis Adds New Jewelry Pieces at Dover Street Market New York

New Prounis pieces have arrived in the Jewelry Space at Dover Street Market New York and on the DSMNY e-shop, with availability dated October 20. Individual items and prices were not part of the information available for this piece.

Prounis is a New York label founded in 2017 by goldsmith Jean Prounis. When WWD named her one of its "40 of Tomorrow" in 2018, Dover Street Market and Moda Operandi were already stocking the line. Her designs draw on her family's Greek heritage and are made in 22-karat gold based on the alloy used in the era of Aristotle and Socrates. She also works with ancient handcraft techniques such as granulation and chain-making.

Pieces are sold with a buffed, soft finish, so the wearer's body heat and skin oils gradually bring the gold from a dull luster to a higher shine. Small nicks are treated as part of the history of each piece. She favors South Sea pearls, cabochon sapphires and emeralds, and older stones such as lapis and rhodonite, and she has drawn attention for her "trade rings," thick gold bands inspired by the merchant rings once used as a form of currency.

The label has history with this very store. In 2022, Dover Street Market New York hosted Palazzo Prounis, a dollhouse-scale installation made with Madrid-based miniaturist Carmen Mazarrasa, in which the jewelry played characters in a domestic setting, as Wallpaper* reported. Prounis described her jewelry as designed to be lived in, with many collectors rarely taking their pieces off.

For Japanese readers, Dover Street Market is the multi-brand concept store founded by Comme des Garçons' Rei Kawakubo, so this is a familiar retail setting for a young American goldsmith's work. Those in New York can see the pieces in the store's Jewelry Space, and others can shop through the DSMNY e-shop.

(Details are drawn from points that agree across reports by Wallpaper*, WWD.)