Collections Week: Rafaels I Have Owned
To finish up Collections Week, I thought I’d share a mini-collection that has been disbanded. I used to find the odd piece by Canadian designer Rafael Alfandary. I admire the designs. So if I found one in a bag of broken jewellery, I’d get all excited at first, but my enthusiasm would quickly die down and I’d never wear the piece again.
The one piece that I liked this green glass and copper pendant, which I always wore with an emerald-coloured glass bead necklace from India. But it was never quite right.
I even found some rarer models, including pendants with real stones. But in the end, they never quite worked for me so I sold them. But my Indian necklace missed its friend terribly. Just to get it to shut up, I ended up buying the copper and green glass pendant pictured below.
It is the porridge that Goldilocks chose — just right.
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I am a new enthusiast and collector of Rafael Alfandary’s work and am searching around for interesting pieces. I am familiar with anything on eBay, Etsy (including Lucky Patina) and basically anything that pops up on the internet. Do you know of any private collectors who are looking to sell any pieces? Or somewhere offline that I might contact for Rafael pieces? Thank you for your time.
I’d suggest getting in touch with Lucky Patina — Eric is truly connected to the Rafael world!