Timeless, versatile ring; gorgeous details, wonderful piece. Love it! The service was great and the communication impeccable, many thanks!
Campo Ligure, Italy 
I was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976. I graduated as an agronomist in 2002. When I was living in my country, my passion was animal breeding and ethnography. I did a 10 years long research on the ethnomedicine of animals, involving wonderful, exciting journeys in Transylvania, Ukraine and the Hungarian countryside. The time I spent working with peasants, shepherds made a deep impact on me: the wisdom of those people, the way they work materials, the way they face the life.
First of all I learnt: there are no „simple people”. We are all bloody complicated. And...the most beautiful finish on metal is the one a shiny scythe has at the end of the summer.Then I left Hungary for England where I lived for nearly 3 years, this is where I started to make jewellery. As I spoke very bad English, jewellery become the way of expressing myself.Starting a new life I become a farm worker, later cheese maker.Searching for my home I left England and I emigrated to Italy. Here I started again from the beginning, without the knowledge of the language, place. I worked for two years as a goat herd, forest worker when finally I managed to become a full time jeweller. I have my own workshop in a small village in the mountains near to Genoa.In my jewellery I recall desire and power. I want to give you the same feeling, like the little child feels, when he buckles on his plastic sword, and he thinks that he is powerful. That is a serious thing! It is natural, and we never outgrow it, at best we might deny it. But we are big guys/girls now, we are not allowed to do that anymore… Still, art often gives you similar power just simple with colors, shapes, voices. If you can wear these artifacts, I call them amulets, and that power will stay with you all the day, every day.
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Timeless, versatile ring; gorgeous details, wonderful piece. Love it! The service was great and the communication impeccable, many thanks!
I absolutely love my ring from Janos. You can feel that it is forged from iron by hand. Fast shipping, great packaging and an amazing person/designer to communicate with! You will not be disappointed!
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