If diamond shapes were animals, the trapeze cut would be a leopard: beautiful and impressive, yet rather elusive.
A nickname for diamonds shaped like trapezoids (a four-sided shape with at least one pair of parallel sides), the cut is rarely seen in fine jewelry—at least when compared with more common silhouettes such as pears, cushions, emeralds, and ovals. But at Las Vegas Jewelry Week, the Bangkok-based duo behind Kavant & Sharart brought the deco-era cut back, big-time.
The fine jewelry brand’s new Mingle Trapeze collection transforms a cut typically used for accent stones—often seen as side stones to a center diamond in an engagement ring—into the main event.
“The trapeze cut spoke to us because it feels architectural yet fluid,” founders Nuttapon Yongkiettakul and Shar-Linn Liew said in a statement. “We wanted trapeze diamonds to step into the spotlight as the hero of the design—bold, sculptural, and quietly powerful.”
The 18k gold and natural diamond collection reads as a meditation on geometry, structure, and movement. Earrings in a bold gold oblong frame feature two rows of trapeze-cut diamonds—each in its own trapezoid-shape frame—flanking a central round brilliant. A necklace featuring seven pairs of trapeze-cut stones in gold frames joined by diamond-set links looks like a series of circus performers linked together as they somersault through the air. A ring features trapeze-cut diamonds in frames that gradually diminish in size.
The collection looks like nothing else out there—at once curvy and linear, it’s an ode to natural diamonds in all their geometric forms. Especially the least expected ones.
Top: Mingle Trapeze earrings in 18k gold with 1.3 cts. t.w. diamonds, $14,200; Kavant & Sharart
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