Trapeze-cut diamonds return to the spotlight at Las Vegas Jewelry Week

At Las Vegas Jewelry Week, Kavant & Sharart put the trapeze cut where it almost never sits in fine jewelry: dead center. The Bangkok-based house used trapeze-cut diamonds as the defining feature of its Mingle Trapeze collection, turning a shape more often relegated to the margins into the focal point of rings, earrings and necklaces.

The cut itself is a nickname for diamonds shaped like trapezoids, the four-sided form with at least one pair of parallel sides. That geometry gives the stone its clipped, architectural look, and it is part of what makes the silhouette feel so distinctly Deco. In modern jewelry cases, though, it remains a rarity beside more familiar outlines such as pears, cushions, emeralds and ovals.

Kavant & Sharart, founded by Nuttapon Yongkiettakul and Shar-Linn Liew, has built its Mingle line around a different idea of stacking and mixing. The collection is designed to work with existing jewelry, complementing, contrasting and elevating what a wearer already owns. In Mingle Trapeze, that concept becomes more dramatic: the trapeze stone is no longer a discreet accent but a sculptural element that commands attention.

Art Deco jewelry from the 1920s and 1930s is defined by crisp geometry, symmetry and unusual diamond cuts, and trapeze stones appear repeatedly in period pieces. The cut appears in Art Deco bracelets, jabots, rings and other platinum jewels dating to circa 1920, 1925 and 1930. Christie’s listed multiple Art Deco diamond jewels featuring trapeze-cut diamonds, including bracelets and a diamond jabot.