As a designer, she loves jewelry, but her goal is to build a legacy through it. With this work she is gathering assets to help fund the collection to raise more funds to build a vocational and lapidary school for a mining community in Brazil with Gems Keep Giving, a non profit. This endeavor looks to direct attention to artisanal mining through safe, ethical and sustainable practices when extracting and mining the ea ???
Renata Cambaúva is a fine jewelry designer crafting empowering pieces imbibed with sacred geometry and ancient metaphysical practices that awaken daily rituals, ceremony, and joy. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Renata Cambaúva infuses her modular fine jewellery pieces with Latin American influences and ancestral traditions that amplify foundational values of beauty, valor and integrity. “I view my jewelry for the body & the soul.” says the designer, “I am inspired by humanity, integrity and beauty that expresses itself with the virtues within and the calling back to humanity.”
Renata Cambaúva’s fine jewellery pieces feature ethically-sourced raw and polished gemstones to create purposeful artifacts that are healing tools to awaken the wearer in discovering their divine purpose and to consider their Higher Self. This is prevalent in the designer’s capsule collections, where stunning multifaceted gemstones are set inwards aligned with sacred geometry to consider the heart in the Portal Collection, raw gemstones are embraced in a mesh cradle inspired by the Tree of Life in the Elo Macrame Collection, and vibrant hand-dyed engineered gemstones express colourful hues related to the ancient energetics in the Chakra Collection.
Renata Cambaúva’s fine jewelry pieces tells a story of connection, spiritual awakening, transformation and ultimately self-acceptance, where the designer asks the wearer - “You are a human, a parent, a friend, a partner, a multitude of avatars, so why should your jewelry be only one thing?”
Renata Cambaúva’s artistry in fine jewelry design was awarded the 2024 CASE Awards by the Jewelers of America, 2024 Retailers Choice Awards by In Store Magazine and 2023 Loupe Project by The Women’s Jewelry Association sponsored by De Beers. The designer’s fine jewellery pieces are currently stocked at Atelier d’Emotion (New York), Kat Mojo (Chicago) and Fiat Lux (San Francisco).