A designer and jeweler from Sevastopol Ilya Maksimov created the jewelry brand “Another Silver” in 2008. By this time, he already had enough experience and skill to start implementing his own ideas. The name itself contains a challenge: not like everyone else, but differently.
As he himself says, the impetus for creativity came in his childhood, which he spent on Cape Fiolent (Sevastopol). In the 1970-80s, it was a secluded place, the territory of a closed military unit. His father served there.

Today, tourists have rushed here, attracted by the St. George Monastery, an ancient descent to the sea with almost 800 steps, an amazingly beautiful wild beach. Then the family moved to the “city” – Sevastopol itself. The father left the service and found himself an exciting occupation, tried himself in jewelry. As a result, he got his son interested in it. In the early 90s, Ilya returned from the army and began creating his first jewelry inspired by the nature of Crimea.

“With my jewelry, I try to convey the mood and atmosphere of my amazing land. I specifically master new technologies and techniques to reflect emerging ideas and feelings as accurately as possible… I produce small runs of silver jewelry made using the lost-wax casting method…

When the next “attack of the birth of an idea” approaches, I create a design for the future work. As a rule, this is a small drawing that only I understand. I only sketch the main lines, the rest is all in my head. Then comes the creation of a model taking into account the future technological process. This includes 3D modeling, and manual modeling methods from hard and soft waxes, and manual metal processing.

The fact is that I am equally interested in both technology and design. If I only deal with technology, over time I get bored and uninterested, and my brain is already itching, coming up with a new design. Conversely, doing just design for a long time drains me, as if an invisible force is drinking me from the inside out.”