Jewels find new home on Granville

IN THE year 1907, Vancouver's population numbered 60,000, the City of North Vancouver was founded and Henry Birks & Sons set up shop at Granville and West Hastings.

By Layne Christensen Fashion Reporter

Eighty seven years later, the City of North Vancouver's population is cresting 40,000 and — after 81 years at the corner of Granville and Georgia — Birks hos retumed to its original location, nearly.

On Nov. 7, Birks unpacked its blue boxes and moved into 648 West Hastings, across the street from where the first store stood in 1907,

The imposing granite structure, formerly home to Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's head branch, was extensively renovated and refur- bished to transform the heritage building into an inviting and elegant retail space.

Vancouver's Heritage Advisory Committee gave architect Oberto Oberti’s designs for the interior unan- imous approval.

A TWISTED loop of platinum end diamonds forms an award-winning ring by visiting designer Fulvio Maria Scavia.

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THE BIRKS store has relocated to West Hastings and Granville.

While the exterior was only slight- ly changed, the interior was com- pletely recreated. Fixtures are in keeping with the building's neoclassi- cal revival style of architecture. A sweeping, central staircase was installed, original wood and plaster work reconditioned, brass railings put in place and cherrywood display counters custom-built.

The Vancouver store will be used as a model for the cross-Canada reju- venation of Birks and the renovation of other regional flagships in the Birks family of 39 stores.

The first of many world-renowned jewelers scheduled to visit the new store jetted into town last week.

ftalian master jeweller Fulvio Maria Scavia was in town to unveil his latest collection of bold gold designs and glittering gems of kalei- doscopic color.

A 10-time winner of the presti- gious DeBeers Diamond International Awards, Scavia is a fourth-generation jeweler who took over his mother’s Milanese show-

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Scavia says the exquisite picces reflect a change in the way we look at and wear jewelry.

“Today. people are less interested in showing off — more interested in the symbelic meaning of the piece,” Seavia told a small group of fashion writers who met with the designer in Birks’ private customer salon to view his pricey creations.

Scavia had brought with him sev- eral extraordinary pieces — diamond- studded spiral earrings commissioned by Elizabeth Taylor, a 350-year-old pink diamond nestled in a bed of ruby beads on a jaw-breaker-sized ring and a heart-shaped emerald banded by rows of diamonds and emerald inlays — any of which could set you back six figures or more.

But you don’t have to be a mil- lionairess to wear one of Scavia's cre- ations. Scavia has created a line of rings, necklaces, bracelets and ear- rings in 18-karat gold, exclusive to Birks Canada. The price range for these is $1,000-$30,000.

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