The Shattuckite Jewellery Collection at Palenque celebrates one of the gemstone world's most visually extraordinary and least well-known stones, shattuckite, a naturally occurring combination of three distinct minerals, malachite, chrysocolla, and turquoise, whose colours and patterns merge and swirl together in ways that are entirely unique to each individual stone. Malachite contributes its vivid, banded greens; chrysocolla adds its distinctive blue-green, a colour that ranges from pale aqua to a deeper teal; and turquoise brings its characteristic sky-blue, sometimes veined with matrix, sometimes clear and saturated. The result is a stone whose surface is a landscape in miniature, a swirling, painterly composition of blues and greens that shifts and changes across every piece of the mineral, making each stone genuinely one of a kind. It is a stone that rewards close attention, and it is this quality that makes shattuckite such a compelling choice for jewellery design. The collection is organised into two ranges. The Monet range features one-of-a-kind pendants, rings, and cuffs in which individual shattuckite stones are hand-set in 925 sterling silver, each piece built around a single stone selected for the quality and character of its colour and patterning. The name Monet is well chosen, evoking the Impressionist painter's sensitivity to colour and light, and it is exactly this quality that shattuckite possesses, a surface that seems to change depending on the light in which it is seen. The Laguna range takes a different form, featuring open bangles in 925 sterling silver, each set with a one-of-a-kind shattuckite stone, the open bangle design giving the piece a bold, architectural quality that allows the stone to be seen from multiple angles. In both ranges, the 925 sterling silver setting provides a clean, neutral frame that allows the extraordinary colour and patterning of the shattuckite to remain the undisputed focus of each piece. The Shattuckite Jewellery Collection is available exclusively at Palenque.
