In her last trip to Asia, in between India, Bhutan and Nepal, Francisca Bastos wandered through forests and foliage that brought her native landscape to memory. When she went looking for gems in the most unlikely places, she found cabochon rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, mainly in forms of flowers and leaves. Delighted, in a tribute to nature still preserved by this world, she designed the “Leaves Collection.”