Golestan

Golestan

Where the nightingale still sings to the rose.

Golestan means the rose garden, and it is where Silux begins. The collection is built on the oldest pairing in Persian poetry, the nightingale answering the rose, an idea Hafez and Saadi returned to again and again: that beauty is proof, not decoration. Roses appear throughout, worked as a raised motif on a slender band, an open six-petal bloom, and a flowing engraved line across rising shoulders.

The Anar capsule lives inside Golestan too: pomegranates built in demi-relief, sculpted in full to the front and hollowed beneath so they sit close and light, from a stacking ring to a hero brooch grain-set with rubies. Elsewhere the collection turns to the boteh, the teardrop motif long used in Persian textiles, the cypress of the Sarv band, and the four-fold sacred geometry of the Chahar Bagh, the paradise garden plan itself, carried into a bridal ring.

From a slim stacking band to the diamond lattice ring at the collection's height, every piece is solid gold and made to order: Golestan worn as a small piece of paradise, never a costume.

Hand-painted Persian panorama of a walled rose garden with pomegranate trees and a turquoise water channel, for the Golestan collection.The Golestan Rose Pendant, the collection’s photographed hero piece, shown at monument scale.
The world of Golestan, painted in the atelier
Gouache rendering of the Golestan Rose Pendant on black card

The Rose Pendant, as an atelier rendering in gouache

Selected pieces

All Golestan pieces

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