Paspaley

In October 2015, Paspaley marked an 80-year pearling heritage across three generations with suitable fanfare at its splendid Sydney address. The lustrous glow of the South Sea pearls that emerge from the wild Pinctada maxima imbues every corner of Paspaley’s flagship boutique at the George Street start of Martin Place. But the grand setting, in a five-storey, trachyte building that was once the Bank of Australasia and designed by an American architect Edward Racht, heightens the effect. The Paspaley boutique occupies the ground floor and took three years of painstaking renovation, while the old bank vaults in the basement are utilised for the brand’s pearl grading and distribution. 

Paspaley’s jewellery collections traverse everyday designs - the classic strand being its hallmark - to bespoke one-of-a-kind pieces that may evoke Australia’s landscape. Its 2015 Touchstone collection captured the wild tropical environment of the remote Kimberley Coast in north-western Australia with vibrant rubies and tsavorites.