Kuhsaar - Lapis Lazuli Silver Charm Necklace

From the Mehr collection by Orah Jewels and Crafts, Kuhsaar is a lapis lazuli pendant necklace with handcrafted silver charms that move freely alongside the stone. The design brings together two distinct material languages: the deep, static weight of lapis lazuli from Afghanistan and the lightness of worked silver elements that shift with wear. The contrast between the two is the logic of the piece.

Lapis lazuli from Badakhshan, Afghanistan is one of the world's oldest traded gemstone materials, extracted continuously from the same mountain deposits for over six thousand years. The deep blue color it carries is produced by lazurite, a sulfur-bearing silicate mineral that forms under metamorphic conditions inside the rock and generates a blue so specific and so interior that no synthetic alternative has fully matched it. Ancient civilizations from Egypt to the Indus Valley treated this stone as a material of ceremony and meaning,  ground into pigment for their most important images, shaped into seals, worn as protection. The pyrite inclusions that thread fine gold across the blue in Kuhsaar are the geological record of the stone's formation, iron sulfide that crystallized alongside the lazurite under heat and pressure, and they are left intact as part of what the stone is.

The silver charms in Kuhsaar are worked at the Orah Jewels facility in Lahore by hand, each element finished individually before being assembled onto the chain. The movement they introduce is deliberate, a pendant that shifts and catches light differently as it is worn is a different wearing experience from one that sits fixed, and Kuhsaar is designed around that difference. At 9.5 inches, the chain positions the pendant at the collarbone. One piece.

Stone: Natural Lapis Lazuli (Badakhshan, Afghanistan)
Metal: Sterling Silver
Chain Length: 9.5"