The Full Story
Enter The Earth's Celestial Collection
The Celestial Collection is Enter the Earth’s pinnacle offering: a curated selection of natural masterpieces that transcend our standard collections. Each piece is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, chosen for its extraordinary formation, rare colorations, or remarkable mineral intensity—qualities that set it far beyond the ordinary.
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Created for collectors, museums, and visionary interior designers, these works embody the rarest expressions of nature’s artistry. More than minerals, they are statement pieces—destined to inspire awe wherever they reside.
About the Founder:
Nader Kawar
From his beginnings as a young traveler in the late 1990s, Nader Kawar built Enter the Earth on a foundation of curiosity, responsibility, and vision. His decades of work in Madagascar have shaped not only a thriving international business, but also a humanitarian model for what ethical mining can look like in the modern era.
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Under his leadership, Enter the Earth has introduced higher safety standards, fair wages, community investment, and environmental restoration projects that have uplifted both workers and local villages. From funding schools and clinics to supporting food relief during droughts, Nader has consistently reinvested in Madagascar, ensuring that the beauty of the stones is matched by integrity in how they are sourced.
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This sense of stewardship also guides his role as curator of the Celestial Collection. Each specimen in this collection is hand-picked by Nader himself, chosen for its rarity, intensity, and natural artistry. Some pieces even come directly from his own personal collection—treasures he is now willing to pass along to the right collector. For him, these one-of-a-kind specimens are more than natural wonders—they are ambassadors of both the planet’s creativity and our responsibility to protect and honor it.
Our US Team
Enter the Earth’s operations in the United States are coordinated by our experienced team based in Asheville, North Carolina. This is the heart of our business — where imports from Madagascar, Brazil, Morocco, and beyond are received, processed, and prepared for collectors, designers, and wholesale clients.​ Our main warehouse hub in Asheville also houses our retail showroom, where visitors can explore specimens curated from around the world.
Each piece is carefully reviewed, cataloged, and offered with the expertise of a staff that understands both the scientific and aesthetic value of fine minerals and fossils. ​In addition, our Tucson, Arizona location opens during the annual Tucson Gem Show, one of the largest mineral events in the world, and for seasonal open-house events by appointment. This seasonal hub allows our team to directly connect with global collectors, museum representatives, and design professionals.​
From logistics and import coordination to customer care and education, our U.S. team ensures that the vision of ethical sourcing and extraordinary mineral artistry that begins in Madagascar is carried through to every client interaction.