UNIQUE COLLECTION
Every fortnight, Daisy & Zarafa will release a new, one-of-a-kind design. There’s only one in the world. Once you buy it, the design will be retired.
18" 3-strand necklace, with green amethyst, freshwater pearls, green jade, 14K gold bead, and sterling silver beads. 14K clasp with cubic zirconium. Hand-strung.
45" silver link chain with silver clasp and pearls.
Named for Alma Thomas.
During the 1960s Alma Thomas emerged as an exuberant colorist, abstracting shapes and patterns from the trees and flowers around her. Her new palette and technique—considerably lighter and looser than in her earlier representational works and dark abstractions—reflected her long study of color theory and the watercolor medium.
37.5” of heat-treated raw pearls with a gold-plated chain.
Named for Amphitrite, in Greek mythology, the goddess of the sea, wife of the god Poseidon, and one of the 50 (or 100) daughters (the Nereids) of Nereus and Doris (the daughter of Oceanus).
25.5" double strand, pearls with gold chain; emerald, ruby, and sapphire beads.
Named for Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell.
Known professionally as Anaïs Nin, she was a French-Cuban-American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of composer Joaquín Nin and Rosa Culmell, a classically trained singer. Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris (1924–1940), and the remaining half of her life in the United States, where she became an established author.
22" hand-strung 3-strand necklace, with turquoise and sterling silver beads. Sterling silver clasp.
Spanish girls name meaning "altar of the sky".
23" 6-strand, green garnet with sterling silver clasp with citrine.
In Hinduism, Aranyani is a goddess of the forests and the animals that dwell within them. She is believed to be the mother of them all. Her name comes from the word, Aranya, which means forest in Sanskrit. Goddess Aranyani animates and protects the forest, and provides food for humankind.
17" two-strand lemon topaz.
Maria Aurélia Martins de Sousa was a Portuguese painter.
16" hand-strung necklace of polished onyx, matte onyx, and sterling silver beads. Sterling silver clasp.
24" hand-strung 5-strand necklace, with hematite and sterling silver beads. Sterling silver clasp.
18" hand-strung necklace of freshwater pearls, with pearl, ruby, and emerald beads. Sterling silver clasp.
*Each piece in our Perennial Collection is made-to-order and hand-strung. Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.
18.5" double-strand brown grey pearls silver beads and carnelian with a silver clasp.
Cathay Williams was an African-American soldier who enlisted in the United States Army under the pseudonym William Cathay. She was the first Black woman to enlist, and the only documented woman to serve in the United States Army posing as a man during the American Indian Wars.
18" hand-strung necklace, with carnelian, jade, peach aventurine, freshwater pearl, sterling silver beads. Sterling silver clasp.
17.5" aquamarine, agate, quarts, and silver
One of the most famous Victorian writers, and a prolific poet, Charlotte Brontë is best known for her novels, including Jane Eyre, her most popular. Brontë experimented with the poetic forms that became the characteristic modes of the Victorian period—the long narrative poem and the dramatic monologue. Included Jane Eyre are the two songs by which most people know her poetry today.
18" hand-strung necklace, with raw sapphire, freshwater pearl. Sterling silver clasp.
60" 14K gold chain, carnelian, citrine, pearls, smoked topaz, blue topaz, amethyst.
Claricia or Clarica was a 13th-century German illuminator. She is noted for including a self-portrait in a South German psalter of c. 1200, now in The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. In the self-portrait, she depicts herself as swinging from the tail of a letter Q. Additionally, she inscribed her name over her head.
26" pearls with silver bars and clasp.
Named after the Greek goddess, the youngest of the Three Fates, responsible for spinning the thread of life.
45" citrine and antique silver chain.
Colleen Moore, one of the most famous flappers, was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable (and highly-paid) stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut.
19" adjustable aquamarine.
Named after the Celtic water goddess of healing and rivers.
19.5" Pearls and Oxidized silver chain.
From the Irish meaning “pearls of wisdom”.
22.5" 5-strand, garnet, smoked topaz, and pearls with a gold plated clasp.
(Demeter) Named after the Greek goddess of abundance and the harvest.
18” citrine and sterling silver bars.
Diotima of Mantinea is the name or pseudonym of an ancient Greek woman or fictional figure in Plato's Symposium, indicated as having lived circa 440 B.C. Her ideas and doctrine of Eros as reported by Socrates in the dialogue are the origin of the concept of Platonic love.
40" hand knotted shell small pearls.
Jamesetta Hawkins, known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz, and gospel.
18" onyx with sterling silver beads and clasp.
Felicia Dorothea Hemans was an English poet (who identified as Welsh by adoption). Two of her opening lines, "The boy stood on the burning deck" and "The stately homes of England", have acquired classic status.
18" hand-strung necklace with fluorite and sterling silver beads. Sterling silver clasp with crystals.
17.5" three-strand tourmaline with 14K gold chain.
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world".
32.5" Amethyst rainbow beads Gold beads with Gold and crystal clasp.
The name Giacinta is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "hyacinth".
24” two-strand citrine and pearls
*Each piece in our Perennial Collection is made-to-order and hand-strung. Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.
Helen or Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology, although her putative father was Tyndareus. A twin sister of Clytemnestra, she also had the twin brothers Castor and Pollux, also known as the Dioscuri. She was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the known world.
19" double stranded Amethyst beads with gray pearls and silver beads and clasp.
IONE was one of the Nereids, the fifty sea nymphs in Greek mythology; also means "purple".
19” three-strand labradorite, smoked topaz, and gold beads.
Iris Apfel is an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion icon. Apfel led a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies. In retirement, she drew acclaim for a 2005 show at the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring her collection of costume jewelry and styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear it. She has become a fashion icon, she signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97 and featured in a 2014 documentary called Iris by Albert Maysles.
18.25" 4-strand white quartz, citrine, amethyst, aquamarine, peridot, and gold.
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history.
18” three-strand gold coin pearls.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a Mexican writer, philosopher, composer, poet of the Baroque period, and Hieronymite nun. Her outspoken opinions granted her lifelong names such as "The Tenth Muse", "The Phoenix of Mexico" and "The Phoenix of America", for she was a flame that rose from the ashes of "religious authoritarianism".
17.25" pyrite geodes with gold clasp, gold beads.
Kalinda is a girl's name of Hindu origin inspired by the Kalinda mountains.
15.5" pyrite geodes with gold clasp.
In Greek mythology, Kleodora was one of the prophetic Thriae, nymphs who divined the future by throwing stones or pebbles and were associated with the Oracle of Delphi.
16.5" leucite and hematite.
Leah Brown Allen was an American astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Hood College. She joined Lick Observatory as Carnegie Assistant in 1908. Professor Allen began teaching astronomy at Hood in 1928.
18.75" small stainless steel plated loops with pearl pendant clasp.
Mary Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
20” amethyst and sterling silver beads.
Lilla Cabot Perry was an American artist who worked in the American Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the United States. Also means “lilac” in Italian.
22" hand-strung necklace, with pink and white rose quartz, amethyst, and 14K gold beads. Sterling silver clasp.
35" pearls with 14 K gold chain.
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov. She was a founding member of both the Jack of Diamonds, Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, the more radical Donkey's Tail, and with Larionov invented Rayonism. She was also a member of the German-based art movement Der Blaue Reiter. Born in Russia, she moved to Paris in 1921 and lived there until her death.
27.75" five-strand red and green garnet with crystals.
Nessa Cohen, born Helen Nessa Cohen, was an American sculptor, born in New York City. She exhibited in the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art.
18" hand-strung necklace, with veined quartz and crystal beads. Sterling silver clasp.
Persephone is a goddess, Demeter's daughter by Zeus, wife of Hades, and queen of the underworld. Her most important myth is that of her abduction by Hades, her father's brother. In Orphic literature, she is Dionysus' mother by Zeus. Persephone was adopted by the Romans as Proserpina.
64" smokey quartz and crystal.
Phillis Wheatley Peters was one of the best-known poets in pre-19th century America. Educated and enslaved in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, lionized in New England and England, with presses in both places publishing her poems, and paraded before the new republic’s political leadership and the old empire’s aristocracy, Wheatley was the abolitionists’ illustrative testimony that blacks could be both artistic and intellectual. Her name was a household word among literate colonists and her achievements a catalyst for the fledgling antislavery movement.
40” citrine with gold chain.
Proserpina is the Latin name for the Greek goddess Persephone. Pluto, king of the Underworld, complained to Jupiter that he alone had no wife. Jupiter promised him Proserpina, his daughter by Ceres, the goddess of grain and of harvests, and with the collusion of Venus, Jupiter and Pluto planned the abduction.
20" hand-strung necklace, with green and black jade, freshwater pearls, mixed agate, jasper, raw topaz, and 14K gold beads. 14K gold clasp.
22" 5-strand multi-colored coin pearls with gold/crystal clasp.
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA.
43" 3-strand 14 K gold chains with pearls.
Olive Katherine Craddock was an Anglo-Indian dancer trained in British India who danced under the name Roshanara. She was known for showing central Indian dance techniques in Britain and America.
20" hand-strung necklace, with 18K-gold infused Murano crystal, with 14K gold bars and 14K gold beads. 14K gold clasp.
Scheherazade is a major female character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.
18" hand-strung necklace of freshwater pearls and sterling silver beads. Sterling silver and marcasite clasp.
*Each piece in our Perennial Collection is made-to-order and hand-strung. Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.
20" Hematite and Pyrite beads with silver and marcasite clasp.
Tullia d'Aragona was an Italian poet, author and philosopher. Born in Rome sometime between 1501 and 1505, Tullia traveled throughout Venice, Ferrara, Siena, and Florence before returning to Rome. Throughout her life Tullia was esteemed one of the best female writers, poets, philosophers, and charmers of her time. Influencing many of the most famous male philosophers, Tullia's work raised the status (in literature) of women to be on an equal footing as men. Her fame and success made her into the most celebrated of Renaissance poet-courtesans. With her intellect, literary abilities and social graces, she entertained powerful men and famous poets.
18.5" Brazilian green aventurine with silver beads.
A girl's name of Latin origin that means "spring green".
22" Smoky topaz and gold beads.
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than any previous British monarch. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
24" hand-strung necklace, with aventurine, jade, opal, rose quartz, freshwater pearls, topaz, agate, green agate, sterling silver beads, and 14K gold beads. 14K gold clasp.
40" Crystals, Pearls, Silver chain and silver nuggets.
Named for Aedesia the Philosopher.
Aedesia was a philosopher of the Neoplatonic school who lived in Alexandria in the fifth century AD. She was a relation of Syrianus and the wife of Hermias, and was equally celebrated for her beauty and her virtues.