STONESTONE

Where Every Stone Tells a Story.

A stone has no opinion of its own. Someone has to decide what it is worth saying — which stone, cut which way, and set to make a point.

PRESS RELEASE September 2026

September 2026 — StoneStone is proud to announce that its work has been honored with a Gold Award at the 2026 French Design Awards. The recognition marks an important milestone for the brand and reflects the originality, craftsmanship, and contemporary design thinking behind StoneStone’s jewelry collections.

StoneStone 2026 French Design Awards Gold Award

This Gold Award comes as StoneStone continues to present its work across leading international jewelry and design competitions. The design team brings together creative backgrounds and professional training from Italy and the United Kingdom, combining European design discipline with a contemporary approach to form, proportion, craftsmanship, and wearability.

The five competitions recognizing StoneStone design submissions are:

French Design Awards - Gold Winner | Paris, France

An international program recognizing creative work across design disciplines for its concept, execution, and visual impact.

A' Design Award & Competition | Como, Italy

An international design competition covering a broad range of creative disciplines, including jewelry and product design.

Accessories Council Design Excellence Awards | New York, USA

Recognizing achievement in jewelry and accessory design, creativity, craftsmanship, and commercial relevance.

HRD Design Awards | Antwerp, Belgium

A jewelry-focused competition with an emphasis on creativity, diamonds, gemstones, and technical craftsmanship.

HKTDC International Jewellery Design Excellence (IJDE) Award | Hong Kong

An international jewelry design program bringing together professional designers and outstanding work from markets around the world.

For StoneStone, the five selections mark an important step in the development of the brand and its design program.

“Our goal has always been to create jewelry with a recognizable point of view rather than simply follow what is already in the market. Having our work accepted by five international design programs gives us an opportunity to present that point of view to a much broader design community.”

StoneStone Design Team

StoneStone specializes in contemporary fine jewelry crafted in 18K gold and lab-grown diamonds. Its collections focus on distinctive silhouettes, refined details, and pieces designed to feel relevant beyond a single season.

As the 2026–2027 competition season progresses, StoneStone will share updates on the participating designs and the designers behind them through StoneStone.

About StoneStone

StoneStone is a contemporary fine-jewelry brand focused on original design, 18K gold, and lab-grown diamonds. Led by an internationally trained design team, StoneStone creates jewelry that combines European design influences with a modern approach to everyday luxury.

A small team, built around judgment

At Stonestone, each piece comes from three disciplines working in sequence: an eye trained to read a stone before it is cut, a design process built on structure rather than trend, and a team that can explain why a piece looks the way it does. We are a small team. That means every piece passes through people who actually care about getting it right.

Meet the team

Behind each Stonestone piece is a quiet order of decisions — from stone selection to structure, from craftsmanship to presentation.

Arbiter

Winston Xue

rom a young age, Winston had an instinct for the market and an eye for quality most people take years to develop. That instinct became a discipline of his own — fancy color diamonds, studied alone, from sourcing the stone to reading its certificate line by line.

He can tell, before a stone is cut, exactly what will give it its best expression. Every piece carrying the Stonestone name passes through his eye first, his sign-off last — which means what
reaches you has already survived a standard most jewelry never has to meet.

He’s not the designer. He’s the arbiter of the brand’s standard.

Designer

Alma Ling

Alma trained as a jewelry designer inside an industrial design program, then went further at Politecnico di Milano — a foundation built on industrial history and ergonomics, not just aesthetics.

She brings structure to a piece the way her training taught her — where the weight sits, how it moves with the body, what makes a setting hold up over years instead of just photographing well. But what she notices first is rarely the structure. It’s the warmth a piece is supposed to carry, how someone will actually feel wearing it — and the structure is just how she makes that feeling last.

She’s not just a designer. She’s the one who makes sure a piece still works the day after you fall in love with it — not just the day you bought it.

Director

Nicole Deng

Nicole studied Silversmithing and Jewelry at the Glasgow School of Art — and came out of it curious about everything, never settled on one type of jewelry or one kind of maker.

That curiosity kept going. She’s worked alongside makers across very different traditions, and stayed close enough to the industry to notice things most people walk past. What she does
with that is bring it together — narrative, quality, and aesthetic, into one piece,
presented the way it deserves to be seen.

Not the stone. The thinking behind it.

That is not a tagline. It is the order we work in.