EUTECTIC handcrafted jewelry

EUTECTIC handcrafted jewelry is created by self-taught graphic designer Stevie Ballow. Her background is actually in engineering, but she chose to pursue her passions for art and design and established Rara Avis, a freelance graphic design company, in 2005. Since then, the company has grown to include not only traditional business design services, but also design for more creative and personal projects.  Rara Avis also produce several product lines, one of which is EUTECTIC.

With an emphasis on forged, handcrafted shapes and the combination of different lines, textures and colors, EUTECTIC jewelry displays characteristics of the artists’ appreciation for different periods and people.  Taking cues from the Art Nouveau, Edwardian, Art Deco, and Minimalism movements, the shapes in EUTECTIC jewelry range from flowing and organic to symmetrical and geometric. The saturated and strong colors hint at works by O’Keeffe and Hopper, but the separation and singularity of the elements conjure lean more toward of Mondrian. It is this combination of the seemingly unrelated styles that forms the underlying theme found in the simultaneous sculptural and natural feel of the jewelry.

Active in her community, Stevie is a member of WIVLA and the Houston Craft Mafia; she donates her time and products to local schools, organizations and charities.  She believes in supporting small businesses and individuals and in building strong communities and families.  In her time away from the studio, she plays soccer, hikes, reads, shops, attends events, and watches the Discovery Channel.  She lives in Sugar Land, Texas with her husband David and two cats, Loki and November.

 

BEHIND THE BRAND: Beauty Through Balance

A “eutectic” is a substance made of more than one element that has a specific melting temperature, not a temperature range.  The formation of a eutectic relies on the concentrations at which the individual elements are mixed; too little or too much or any one element disrupts the balance.

In each piece of EUTECTIC jewelry, this sense of balance and uniformity is ever present.  Silver, gold, and natural stones are combined to create a single, coherent design while also highlighting each element’s intrinsic beauty.  The result of this combination produces pieces with a seemingly harder, more sculptural edge than other brands.  However, the designs also conjure images of architectural elements and wide open spaces, keeping the jewelry feminine, graceful, and timeless.

EUTECTIC jewelry is created with the individual in mind.  Signature EUTECTIC pieces are bold enough to wear at any formal event, but understated enough for the office or weekend wear.  And because beauty comes in all shapes, colors, and sizes, EUTECTIC jewelry also offers a wide variety of designs. Earrings and necklaces are often created in two sizes: thinner wire and smaller stones for women with petite frames or delicate features and thicker wire and more substantial stones for those with bold styles or stronger features.

Few chemical combinations have a eutectic point; the rest simply exist as they are: unbalanced, but stable.  It is our hope that you find your eutectic point -- the point in your life at which all the lists, the hopes, the responsibilities, the concerns, the events, and the chores exist in one place, in one state.  And though we know that sparkly rocks alone won’t make your life complete, we do think that what we create will fulfill your need to feel beautiful but be practical and help you on your journey to find peace and balance in your life.

Cheers.