Platinum Guild International showcases additively manufactured platinum jewellery from Maeve Gillies
July 1, 2025
Platinum Guild International (PGI), an organisation established to promote the use of platinum in jewellery, has showcased what is reported to be the first platinum-based collection of its kind to be launched commercially. Created by Scottish-American jewellery designer Maeve Gillies, the new thirty-piece Tùsaire collection includes necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings produced through metal Additive Manufacturing.
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While Additive Manufacturing is already established within the jewellery sector, the launch of the Tùsaire collection is said to demonstrate the decorative, scale and structural potential for additively manufactured platinum. The technology has enabled the crafting of intricate, unique shapes that would be impossible to achieve by other methods, such as lattices, hollow structures and detailed textures.
Highlighting this latest application for platinum at the ORIGINALLUXURY Roundtable event, held in Geneva earlier this year, PGI’s CEO Tim Schlick explained, “We needed to put 3D printing of platinum to the test, to identify the advantages and challenges, in the hope of expediting the technology’s application in making precious jewellery and its ability to create novel designs and experiences. There is no doubt Additive Manufacturing will be very important for the future of jewellery as it unlocks so many new possibilities.”
Maeve Gillies is an internationally renowned jewellery designer with a thirty-year career. She co-founded the engagement ring brand MaeVona in New York in 2005 and now teaches at Edinburgh University, also serving as a Trustee of the Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council.
Discussing the collection, Gillies shared, “As most of my work is in diamond bridal jewellery fabrication, I learned through experience that platinum is the ideal bridal metal due to its strength, resilience, and suitability for diamond design innovation. For this 3D-printed jewellery collection, my knowledge of platinum was invaluable in allowing me to design new solutions with the printing technology, helping to transform platinum into new jewellery looks and categories.”
The Tùsaire collection – named after the Scottish Gaelic word for ‘pioneer’ – was manufactured by Progold S.p.A., based in Trissino, Vicenza, Italy, using metal Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) technology.
Tai Wong, Director of Innovations and Product Development at PGI shared, “Due to platinum’s high tenacity, strength and high melting temperature, it enables the highest quality of structural integrity with precise heat control. Its good light absorption and low reflectivity also make platinum a comparatively energy-efficient metal for printing with lasers.”
Additive Manufacturing enables the design of larger, lighter platinum forms that would previously have been impractical due to the material’s density.
“This is such an interesting time in the industry because technologies are coming in thick and fast,” added Gillies. “At the same time, craft has never been more important for people to preserve and understand the process and the possibilities of new materials and new ways of expressing and pushing more towards what platinum can do.”
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