Anton Heunis

Born in South Africa, fully trained gold and silversmith Anton Heunis graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a BA in Fine Arts. Following his studies, Anton Heunis travelled extensively with his work and finally settled in the Spanish capital Madrid, to pursue his creative calling as a luxury jewellery designer.

In 1998 Anton Heunis was honoured the American-Swiss New Designer

Award, which subsequently led to numerous exhibitions in various art galleries, such as the Haus der Kunst, Munich and the V & A, London, during a time when he took up the opportunity to study an invitational MA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany.

Just three years later, Anton Heunis became in-house designer for Erickson Beamon, London, designing the precious and semi-precious jewellery collections.

Anton Heunis‘ impressive portfolio of clients also includes Roberto Cavalli, Emanuel Ungaro, Anna Mollinari, Elspeth Gibson, Matthew Williamson, Anna Sui and Tim van Steenbergen.

Drawing his inspiration from everyday life and impressions, Anton Heunis meticulously gleans from his surroundings and has in turn developed his charms and trinkets from his traditional training, as well as techniques in costume jewellery, interspersed with his passion as an artist and the freedom will it allowed.

He launched his first signature label collection at London Fashion Week in February 2004 to high acclaim and has since gained revered stockists worldwide, selling both men’s and women’s jewellery.

In 2007 the Anton Heunis was awarded the Swarovski “Create your Style” award for the best Designer in the territory of Spain And Portugal. This has also led to numerous design collaborations together with Swarovski.

For the March issue of 2008 Anton Heunis was selected by Harpers Bazaar Fashion Accessories Director, Ana Maria Pimentel as one the “Hottest, newest and Latest” in the international accessory scene.

As from August 2009 Anton Heunis has been allocated a shop in shop the famous 5th Avenue store of Henri Bendel, where the vast variety of his designs can be seen.