Chiaroscuro

The collection is built through contrast.

Polished gold is set against patinated alloys and darkened silver. Stones carry both brilliance and depth, yet the light they hold is rarely left uninterrupted. It is edged, absorbed, or redirected through structure.

Forms move between spheres, arcs, cuffs, and elongated elements. Some are centred and contained, others shift off axis. Symmetry appears when it serves the piece, but more often balance is held through asymmetry and surface tension.

Reverse-set diamonds recur across the work, interrupting the metal and altering the way light travels. Elsewhere, contrast is established through the relation between polish and patina, reflection and density.

Chiaroscuro approaches jewellery as a constructed object, but not a distant one. Each piece is composed to hold light, and to resist it, in equal measure.

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✦ Notes from the House

Jewellery, as language