Andrei Ananov was born on August 8, 1945 in the city of Leningrad. Soviet and Russian jeweler, general director of the Russian Jewelry Art Ananov company. Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation. Chairman of the Russian Creative Union of Cultural Workers.
Film and theater director by education. Graduated from LGITMiK.
Awards:
- International Prize “Silver Lion” (1991).
- large gold European medal (1992).
- the title of Laureate of the Tsarskoye Selo Prize (2000).
- Order named after Carl Faberge 1st degree and the title of the best jeweler of the century (2000).
- medal “300 years of St. Petersburg” (2003).
- the highest award of the Public Council “Gratitude of St. Petersburg” (2004).
- Order of Honor (2006).
- Literary Prize “Petropol” (2007).
Andrey Ananov revived the principle of the Faberge jeweler turning a piece of jewelry into an object of art, taking advantage of the successes of jewelers of past centuries, creating new pieces, trying to improve and rethink analogues.
Ananov continues the Faberge tradition of breaking all the canons, when the master included pewter and blued steel in some jewelry, and set rectangular brooches made of Karelian birch in diamonds.
The main feature of Ananov’s works jewelry, interior items, flowers, photo frames, stone figures, Easter eggs is a large area of transparent enamel laid on a guilloche base. There is no other such production anywhere in the world today. For seven years I worked at home, not unbending, enthusiastically and stubbornly. My goal was grandiose and sassy.
I decided to become a new Faberge, to connect the thread broken by the Bolshevik revolution, stretching from the depths of time, from the great Russian jewelers Scharf and Pozier, Rappoport and Perkhin I loved this style, perfect in the alluring brilliance of finely set diamonds and mirror polished enamel, reminiscent the irretrievably bygone era of palaces, secular receptions, courageous smart officers and graceful low-cut ladies. I was attracted by the beautiful illusion of the past of the once rich and powerful state.
The company’s products are in the collections of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, Her Majesty Queen Sophia of Spain, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, the Royal House of Sweden, the Yeltsin family, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II and in private collections both in Russia and abroad (Montserrat Caballe Placido Domingo, Stevie Wonder). “Amber Panther” of the Kaliningrad Film Festival is the work of Andrey Ananov’s jewelry house.
Jewelry by Andrey Ananov
