Silver and Turquoise Link Bracelet
Sterling Silver and Turquoise Link Bracelet by World Renowned Jewelry Artist Federico. Each of these graceful links have crescent shaped accents of turquoise. It has a safety chain and measures 6.75″.
International Artist: Matilde “MATL” Poulat
Educated as an artist and designer, Matilde Poulat, known by “Matl”, turned her talented hands to jewelry making a 1934. “MATL” is the signature on her jewelry – a combination of her name and the Aztec word “atl”, meaning water.
Her pieces are unique baroque forms with delicate texture detailing repousse work with hand chasing. The pieces are often channel set with a multitude of tiny coral and turquoise stones and feature her signature palomas (doves) in the design.
In art school Poulat befriended Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo become a collector of Poulat’s jewelry. Poulat’s work is the most famous and intricate that the Mexican Silver Renaissance has ever produced.
Poulat trained her nephew, Ricardo Salas, as a jeweler and they worked side by side for years. After her death in 1960, he continued to run the shop and create pieces in the Matl style. Today, Omar Gabriel Tadeo Juárez, fourth generation in the Poulat family, continues the Matl jewelry-making tradition.