BaĹźak Baykal is a woman entrepreneur who creates her jewelry brand. Also this jewelry brand came to life as like nature wakes up to spring with opening its buds. We talked about her wonderful jewelries with her drawings chamomiles, violets and forget-me-not flowers with her.
You are founder of a jewelry brand that inspires from the nature but before that we want to know you. Before that what did you do?
I worked in a pharmaceutical industry about 18 years. After worked a different positions in corporate life, I left this world about 4 years. I have wanted to take time off both myself and my twins; also I have wanted to do something that’s good for me and opening up to a different world.Â
How did the idea of creating a jewelry brand come about?
I am a daughter of a jeweler father. Jewelry, rock, gold; all of them are familiar with me. Creating my jewelry brand was a subject that existed in the last years in my corporate life. It was a dream for conditions of that time. I was working very hard, I had dreams, but I didn’t have a enough time to think about it well. Sometimes it is necessary to stop and doing nothing, that time dreams start to come true. For me, that “stop” time is pandemic time.
 We see the colorful beauties of Bodrum nature in the designs, how did nature get involved in this jewelry journey?
In the very hard times of the pandemic, we moved away from Istanbul with my family. The winter was continuing for Bodrum. I found myself to watch the nature waking up to the spring step by step in there. Turning my dream to concrete step started like this. I started to draw what I see in the nature. A different flower that appeared in every corner began to take different forms in my eyes. And then I saw that the creativity that I thought was rasped in corporate life came back.
Spike symbolizes abundance and luck. I have always loved the spike motif, and since my name is BaĹźak, I wanted to reveal this strong bond not only in the collection but also in the future of the brand.
Could you talk about your first collection “Natural Treasures”?
Daisies, violets, wax flowers, fuchsia, forget-me-not flowers… I wanted to start with my favorite flowers that are at the core of this collection. All of them have been turned into unique jewels with meticulous craftsmanship. In addition to these, the flowers of the orange, apple and cherry tree appear in three different brooch forms. And of course, there are the spikes, which are the signature of the collection… Every product in this collection was handcrafted by the best masters of the Grand Bazaar and only one was produced. In the designs in which gold, diamonds and colored stones are used, there is miniature details painted one by one, and this has been one of the most important differences of both the brand and the collection.
