Mawi started its successful path 12 years ago as the result of a creative collaboration in business and in life between Mawi Keivon, sole responsible for the design direction, and Tim Awan, heading the management side of the brand. We had last week the exciting opportunity to meet them both at their studio in London Dalston … Continue reading
Nicole Kai is a multidisciplinary artist currently studying at the London Central Saint Martin’s that we came across by paying a visit to the wonderful world of trend reporting at WGSN. The process behind the Pipe Dreams jewellery collection (from 2010/11) shown below, consists as we see it in decontextualizing worldly and usually perceived as … Continue reading
An award winning jeweller, named four times UK Jewellery Designer of the Year, London based Shaun Leane caught our attention with his wonderful lines of jewellery, self created with impeccable hand-crafting skills. Trained among master craftsmen at London’s jewellery quarter Hatton Garden, he soon evolved his designs into something that wanders now in his own collections … Continue reading
One of the NEW GEN talents showing up in recent years at the London Fashion Week, Scottish fashion designer Holly Fulton has been creating for her catwalk shows some pretty amazing pieces of jewellery. Oversized designs and structural plastic compositions are presented with some powerful graphic geometries inspired from the 60’s and an interesting mix of … Continue reading
Known by their beautifully made combinations of crystals, beads and semi precious stones that are inspired from a mix of traditional and classical jewellery, the work of designers Karen & Eric Erickson and Vicki Beamon is since the launch of their brand in 1983 a constant source of creativity. That granted them the constant appraisal … Continue reading
When eroticism is understood as a contrast to the obvious depictions of pornography, playing in between what is hidden and what is revealed, inviting more than exposing to what is beyond the shown, we could mention Carol’s work as being one of its translations. In Carol’s works, the jewellery pieces must perform in the body in … Continue reading
To be launched during the London Fashion Week at Somerset House, the Rock Vault is a jewellery initiative from the British Fashion Council with the aim to support and promote new fine jewellery designers based in London. Among the jewellers selected to showcase at the event, we came across the work of Tomasz Donocik, a … Continue reading
Elegant and exotic, the jewellery work of former Central Saint Martin’s graduate Alice Cicolini is exquisitely inspired from Eastern traditions. The rich colors and imagery of persian miniature paintings play along with the shapes of sacred architectures and textile patterns of the silk routes, bringing to Cicolini’s collections an orientalist scent that is perfectly balanced … Continue reading
Phantasmagoric, surreal but also playful and sometimes presenting itself in a happy futuristic sci-fi mood, the jewellery work of Peter Chang is a melting pot of aesthetic references where the art of HR Giger flirts freely with the colors and shapes of Niki de Saint Phalle and Takashi Murakami among bits and pieces of quotations to … Continue reading
An alchemist with a genuine passion for jewels that were ostentatiously shown, described by Voltaire as a man “who knows everything and who never dies”, the 18th Century German occultist Comte Saint-Germain was the starting point for Hannah Martin to go deeper into the ample symbolic resources of the alchemical tradition. Alchemy and masonry symbols which … Continue reading
A friend of ours from Mumbai told us today in the afternoon about Little Shilpa, the fashion jewellery project from Shilpa Chavan, designer who after her first studies in fashion design and manufacturing also in Mumbai, moved to London to study millinery and jewellery at the Central Saint Martin’s and at the London College of … Continue reading
East London designer Michael Malloy sparked our interest with the rather unusual combination between perspex shapes and gold plated textured surfaces (brass mostly), which is, as we found out, one of his signatures. Besides the interest in these materials (Michael is for example leading a workshop on Perspex at the London Jewellery School) that we … Continue reading
Introducing at Pop Up Uau the London based French designer Maud Traon and her fantastic jewellery visions. Sparkling colours and apocalyptical forms with organic resemblances. All images from the collection Stones&Co. http://www.maudtraon.net Continue reading
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