The Unique Gallery presents “The Art of Jewellery” at Firetti Contemporary Gallery, an immersive exhibition celebrating contemporary jewellery as a powerful artistic medium. The event unveils the latest collections by three internationally recognised jewellery brands—The Contrast Club, Hugo Cahill, and Nafees—and introduces a commissioned artwork by contemporary artist Yousra Wahba, titled The Brilliant Green.
Rooted in the idea of jewellery as collectible art, the exhibition explores the intersection of craftsmanship, materiality, colour, and concept, set within the refined curatorial environment of Firetti Contemporary.
Dalila Daffara, Founder of The Unique Gallery, states:
“The collaboration at Firetti Gallery supports an exhibiting artist while elevating jewellery into a curatorial context. Designers from different countries come together, united by a shared love for beauty, uniqueness, and culture. Each piece is a one-of-one work of art, where vibrant gemstones and the power of colour create a universal dialogue between creativity, craftsmanship, and contemporary culture.”
Featured Jewellery Brands
The Contrast Club
Based in Southern Finland, The Contrast Club is a family-run atelier celebrated for merging engineering precision with artisanal jewellery craftsmanship. The brand is renowned for its mechanically interactive designs, incorporating micro-mechanical elements that transform jewellery into kinetic objects. With a strong commitment to sustainability, The Contrast Club works with recycled metals and local Finnish workshops, creating meticulously engineered, one-of-a-kind pieces that challenge traditional notions of fine jewellery.
Hugo Cahill
Hugo Cahill is an avant-garde high jewellery house positioned at the crossroads of sculpture, design, and fine jewellery. Known for its concept-driven approach, the brand explores form, balance, and material through sculptural silhouettes, reverse-set gemstones, and unconventional compositions. Produced in collaboration with master craftsmen across Europe, Hugo Cahill’s creations are slow-made objects of artistic intent, exhibited internationally and collected for their intellectual and aesthetic depth.
Nafees
Founded in Jaipur, Nafees draws upon India’s rich gemstone heritage while embracing a bold contemporary vision. The brand is recognised for its fearless use of colour, exceptional gemstones, and refined craftsmanship. Inspired by Jaipur’s vibrant cultural landscape, Nafees creates jewellery that celebrates the emotional power of colour and light, offering designs that are expressive, sophisticated, and unmistakably modern.
Featured Artwork: The Brilliant Green by Yousra Wahba
At the heart of the exhibition is The Brilliant Green, a commissioned sculptural artwork by Yousra Wahba, inspired by the poetic play of light within coloured gemstones. The work reflects on luminosity, perception, and chromatic depth, serving as a conceptual bridge between contemporary art and fine jewellery.
Yousra Wahba, Artist, comments:
“My work explores nature as a repository of memory and moments suspended in time through form and material. In this exhibition, the brilliance and structure of gemstones resonate with my ongoing investigation of organic life, transformation, and fleeting energy, creating a visual conversation between the natural world and human craftsmanship..”
Mara Firetti, Founder of Firetti Contemporary, adds:
“This exhibition brings jewellery into dialogue with contemporary art, positioning craftsmanship, materiality, and concept on equal ground. By presenting exceptional jewellery alongside Yousra Wahba’s sculptural works, we invite audiences to experience gemstones not only as objects of adornment, but as sources of artistic inspiration and cultural expression.”
Event Highlights
- Presentation of new collections by The Contrast Club, Hugo Cahill, and Nafees
- Unveiling of The Brilliant Green, a commissioned artwork by Yousra Wahba
- A curated dialogue between contemporary art and fine jewellery
About The Unique Gallery
The Unique Gallery is the first and only high jewellery gallery in the Middle East, dedicated to elevating exceptional jewellery and collectible timepieces within a curated cultural context. Located at the prestigious Kempinski Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, the gallery presents a rotating selection of more than 20 extraordinary maisons and independent creators from around the world, chosen for their craftsmanship, rarity, and artistic vision. Beyond showcasing rare and meaningful pieces, The Unique Gallery fosters a refined dialogue between collectors, designers, and connoisseurs through exclusive events, private experiences, and initiatives such as The Unique Club, a private community that brings together lovers of high jewellery and watches to share inspiration, expertise, and cultural exchange. The yearly event The Unique Gala is one of Dubai’s most anticipated luxury events, where more than 20 represented brands and designers unveil their latest creations before an audience of VIPs, international press, and collectors.
About Firetti Contemporary
Firetti Contemporary is a gallery where art and creative concepts align from the region and beyond, encouraging global engagement through creating meaningful and sustainable collections.
By representing both established and emerging artists from all over the world, Firetti Contemporary strives to build a multidisciplinary art space with a strong identity to an international platform. Bringing together like-minded individuals and pioneers of the artistic and expressive future, the gallery assembles a dynamic curation of works that encourage the importance of individuality as well as establishing collective alignment.
About the Artist
Yousra Wahba (Saudi Arabia, 1977) is a multidisciplinary Egyptian artist whose practice frequently confronts the visual memory of nature and the metaphor of frozen memories, a particular experience, or emotions in time. Through this anchoring theme, she merges natural and organic elements translating into largely observational metaphoric shapes, driven by her background in Pharmaceutical Science. Pushing the limits of her material through persistent and relentless experimentation, Yousra creates sculptures of organic life forms like coral, flowers, and splashing liquid exploring the wild aspect of nature and reflecting fleeting moments of energy.
