Rejuvenate Old Gems With Takohl

regemeration. recycle. restyle. recreate.Here at Takohl, we love helping couples celebrate their anniversary by updating their existing engagement and wedding rings to match their current personal sense of style.

Before

The original engagement ring with a .73pt princess cut diamond and multiple long baguette diamonds. After collaborating over pencil drawings, we decided to save the baguettes for a necklace for her daughter and build a modern setting utilizing the center diamond with the goal of increasing the visual size of their diamond.

Before image of Sidney's ring.

 

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

The new design changes the orientation of the diamond, with a halo going around it on a wide tapered band. We built the bezel high with a diamond bridge underneath to rest on the finger.  This lets lots of light into the setting.  This also makes it easy to clean so your diamonds always look their absolute best.

CAD of Sidney's new ring design.

 

After

With our REGEMERATION process,  we love keeping the sentimental gems and adding a few fresh ones to complete the look.  See how much larger the center diamond now appears!

Sidney's finished ring.

Sidney's ring as seen on her hand.

Celebrate Your Anniversary in Style

Celebrating Love and Life.
Take a moment to be grateful for the person who looks after you most.  Honor your time with your partner with a unique gift to let them know how special they really are.
Here at Takohl we take great pride in helping you commemorate the anniversaries of special moments with unique jewels that will always be treasured.  Celebrating can be easy and fun!
Promotional image for Takohl Celebration Rings.
Takohl Shield Pendants shown.
Our years of experience enable us to provide great design while educating our clients on gemstones and jewelry creation. Whatever your budget, we can guide you to a new understanding of how fine jewelry is custom made for you and your lifestyle!
Takohl Treasure Rings shown in open and closed position.
Personalize a Takohl Treasure Ring.
Use our interactive ring builder to design a ring to commemorate big occasions. Include the names of your children, important dates or a sweet message.

Meet Tammy Kohl of Takohl in West Loop

This is a picture of Tammy Kohl

From Voyage Chicago:

Today we’d like to introduce you to Tammy Kohl.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Tammy. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
When I was 19 years old, I started my jewelry design business as an avenue to help pay for college. Soon, I began selling my collections to Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom department stores. After I graduated college in the late 80’s, I moved my company to the West Loop of Chicago in Fulton Market. Back then, the area was a lot rougher and less populated than it is today to say the least.

I became an inventor and patented many designs with my most famous being the Takohl Treasure Ring. A ring that opens up like a locket and displays hidden engraving and gemstones. This brought many design awards and National and world recognition. Many celebrities garnered this design and my clientele continued to grow throughout the country and the world.

In 2000, I purchased property on Peoria St near Randolph St. and launch my store front fine jewelry gallery. Specialties include custom design tailored to the individual and their sense of style, award winning bridal, restyling existing jewelry and corporate awards.

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
My industry is full of knock off designs, so in order to keep my work protected I would design original things that have never been thought of before and involve lawyers. I’ve patented many of my inventions to keep my work proprietary. I strive to provide my clients with jewelry that they can’t find anywhere else.

Marketing new products that I invent is always a challenge. My newest amulet design is still patent pending. After 10 years of development, I finally figured out how to seal water into jewelry behind glass. My Takohl Love Amulet features energized selenite water whose resonance calms the individual and resonates “LOVE” to the wearer and to all around them. Learn more about the Love Amulet here.

We’d love to hear more about your business.
My business revolves around creating custom jewelry that matches my customer’s personality and sense of style. I love to draw possibilities for new jewels that are conceived with passion and intuition and captures the emotions and sentiments that are unique to every person. Interpreting their design sense is my gift. My customers rely upon me to help them get the gift right the first time! My goal is to create affordable pieces that have sentimental value for our customers.

We are gem experts! Over 30 years’ expertise helping my clients make well informed choices when choosing diamonds and colored stones for bridal or investment purchases. My clients trust me to advise and educate them on choosing the perfect gemstone to meet their aesthetics and budget requirements. I treat my customers like they are family.

What were you like growing up?
I grew up on a farm in Wisconsin and as a farm kid you needed to choose a job on the farm at an early age. I often helped my Dad with fixing the farm machinery. This is where I learned the basics of metalsmithing and welding and problem solving.

Being always interested in making my own money, I started my first business in the 3rd grade selling sweet corn on the side of the road. Then I expanded into being a candy dealer to all the kids in my grade school. I would buy just above wholesale from the neighborhood grocery and retail to my classmates. Friendships came easily to me.

I was an artistic child. I was drawing or painting someone or something. I played a lot of baseball and also, I took up baton twirling. After numerous parades, pageants and performances all over the Midwest, I became a world champion baton twirler.

Pricing:

  • Takohl Treasure Rings $495-$ 5000 and beyond
  • Sterling Silver Earrings, Necklaces and Cufflinks $ 125 to 950

Contact Info:

  • Address: Takohl- A Gallery of Exceptional Jewels
  • Website: www.takohl.com
  • Phone: 3124216222
  • Email: studio@takohl.com
  • Instagram: @takohl_gallery
  • Facebook: Takohl
  • Twitter: @takohl_jewelry
  • Yelp: Takohl fine jewelry

Takohl Treasure Ring

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A model wearing Takohl Jewelry.

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Takohl Rings

Tammy Kohl and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.

Image Credit:
Paul Audia
Philin Phlash
Audrey Nielsen

Give New Life to Old Jewels

re.gem.er.a.tion. Recycle. Restyle. Recreate

An image of an old Amethyst in a ring. Before- amethyst in a ring.

Transform old jewels that you are not wearing into something that you’re proud of.

Have you heard of jewelry designer Tammy Kohl’s original process of analyzing your jewelry box? Regemeration is the restyling of your existing unworn jewels into your new favorite piece.  Share pictures of what you have that is not being worn and she will evaluate, draw creative options and transform your gems of the past into new original works of art.

Another image of the amethyst in the pendant.

     After- amethyst in a pendant.

 

Commemorate Success with Graduation Gifts from Takohl

Takohl Treasure Ring assortment for graduations.

Celebrate your graduate with a Takohl Treasure Ring. Our rings have a classic aesthetic that always looks current. Here is Lady GaGa’s quote, but you can certainly can create your own message to inspire and evoke emotion.

This Treasure Ring reads

Visit www.treasurering.com to create your own on our interactive ring builder and create a keepsake to be treasured forever.

 

Takohl  Chicago Cityscape Cufflinks

Celebrate your loved one’s shining moment with a timeless Takohl creation, serving as a symbol of success. Cherish their special day with one of our heirloom quality designs. Please call us at 312-621-6222 for personalized assistance on these or any jewels.

 

Takohl. A Gallery of Exceptional Jewels.

312-421-6222
110 N. Peoria St.
Chicago, IL
60607

Open M-F 10-6 pm
Evenings and Weekends by Appointment