Years active 1987 to present Alma mater Odessa University Role Jeweler | Name Vladyslav Yavorskyy Known for Yavorskyy
Ivy New York Books Terra Spinel: Terra Firma | |
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Occupation Gemstone Dealer, Jeweler Website www.yavorskyy.com
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Vladyslav Yavorskyy is a gemstone dealer and jeweler based in Beverly Hills. He is best known as one of the world's largest dealers and authorities on spinel. He is also the author of two books, one of which was named as one of the Best Jewelry and Watch Coffee-Table Books of 2014 by JCK Magazine.
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Yavorskyy owns and operates Ivy New York, a jewelry store based in Beverly Hills and Hong Kong, as well as Yavorskyy, his namesake business where he trades gemstones. His work has appeared in publications such as Grazia, Vogue, Allure, InStyle, and Harper's Bazaar. His jewelry has also been featured with celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna.
Early life and education
Yavorskyy studied geology at the University of Odessa. While in college, he would prospect in Baikal, Siberia, Ural, Althai, far east Russia and the Pamir Mountains in the Badakhshan Province of present day Tajikistan. Starting with his arrival at college in 1987, Yavorskyy dealt in gems, mainly spinel, a little known or sought after gem at the time. He graduated from Odessa in 1992.
Career
After graduating, Yavorskyy spent several years traveling and trading gemstones in Germany, Italy, and France, making a living as an independent dealer. He traveled to the United States where he opened his first office in New York in 1995. He moved to Bangkok in 1999 where he opened a gem-cutting business. Yavorskyy continued dealing primarily in spinel in his early career, concentrating on the lesser known gem as opposed to commercial stones such as rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. Throughout the years, Yavorskyy has become a specialist in a number of gems, including unheated sapphires, rubies, demantoid garnets, tsavorite garnets, and more. He has become known best for his unique cut, color, clarity and overall high standard of the stones he sells.
Yavorskyy became well-known after an increase in demand for spinel. He is considered one of the world's largest suppliers of the gem. Yavorskyy is still based in Bangkok and exhibits internationally. He also possesses one of the largest red spinel weighing 110 carat. Yavorskyy operates his namesake business in Bangkok, maintaining additional offices in New York, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. He also sells finished jewelry under the name Ivy New York, a boutique jewelry retailer based in Beverly Hills.
Yavorskyy is the author of Terra Spinel, a book he privately published and printed in 2010. The book contains images that document some of his spinel finds over the years. Images of mines, villages, landscapes and temples photographed by him during his ventures in the past 20 years are also included in the book. Yavorskyy released a second book, Terra Garnet, in 2014. The book was named one of the Best Jewelry and Watch Coffee-Table Books of 2014 by JCK Magazine.