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SLICED earrings: two halved pearls on yellow gold posts, one showing its cut, banded interior
Image © TASAKI

TASAKI · 2012

M/G TASAKI

Pearls sliced in half, faceted or cut into wedges, so the banded inside of the pearl becomes the ornament.

From €1,300on the TASAKI site, October 2026

Introduced
2012 — Presented in Tokyo on 5 December 2012 as 'Melanie Georgacopoulos Tasaki' and sold from spring 2013. The Jewellery Editor dates the M/G TASAKI name itself to 2014.
Designer
Melanie Georgacopoulos
Idea
The pearl
School
Tokyo
Materials
yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, pearl, diamond

M/G TASAKI at TASAKI

The story

TASAKI's chief executive Toshikazu Tajima found the London designer Melanie Georgacopoulos through her pieces at Dover Street Market, and her first line for the house, Sliced, was shown in Tokyo in December 2012. Cutting a pearl was close to sacrilege in the trade; she polished the cut face so its growth rings show like those of a felled tree. Later families set V-cut pearls against mirror gold, wrap them in gold arcs and pair halved pearls with gold spheres.

The ladder

  1. Entry Boucles d'oreilles SLICED, or jaune 18K, perles (EC-3833-1-18KYG) €1,300
  2. Top of line Collier DISC PEARL, or SAKURAGOLD 18K (UFC-N1363-18KSG) €36,000

Prices as published by TASAKI in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

  • Akoya cultured pearl strand of matched white pearls laid in a circle, with a small yellow gold clasp

    Answers · 2012

    Akoya Cultured Pearl Strand, MIKIMOTO (1893)

    M/G TASAKI slices the round pearl open, so the banded inside that the perfect strand hides becomes the ornament.

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