Studio visit in the Design Tower

it's been a while, our blog-playing has been distracted with Tumblr and Instagram
and mainly reading the fascinating exploits of others,

so back in the saddle and we highly recommend checking out the current Studio Visit feature on the Design Tower blog with Alan Ardiff.

- what is the moon, what is the stars Joxer ? 

back once again...

It's been a while, work has been all consuming for the last few months.
You get a chance to lift your head from your bench for a moment and realize that it's the end of December and christmas is only days away.

We've been lucky enough to make some really unusual and inspiring pieces this year, and we've even managed to get a couple of them photographed before they flew out of the workshop.
I will enjoy posting them over the coming months.
There are a few pieces which are close to my heart for the subtleties and nuances that were involved in discovering the designs.

For now, and to get back posting, I thought I'd show one of my personal favourites.
This has been in my mind for the last 15 years, ever since I came across the existence of the only issue of Cabaret Voltaire, the first publication by Hugo Ball and the birth of the DaDa movement.
Apart from its historic context, I was taken by the graphic simplicity and the composition of the cover by Hans Arp.

I always wanted to see the graphic block lifted as a 3d object and set off the background, and it ties nicely to some of our ongoing thoughts about jewellery and its context when it isn't being worn. 

This deserves to be seen/enjoyed, and when it isn't being worn, it shouldn't be in a box in a drawer. Why not have an artwork become a wearable object, to spend most of it's time back on the wall as an artwork.

stay tuned...

; )

Curiouser and curiouser

Happy new year all! Back to the surface after a few well deserved days off.

Every so often we get unusual requests or commissions. Sometimes these arrive to us as ideas that are fully formed, sometimes the person arrives to us simply with an open mind and a kernel of an idea or a starting point and we then discover it together.

In this instance the illustration came from a book that the customer had as a child, and was her favorite picture. It is the title picture from the opening page of "The Emperor's New Clothes" and depicts the two tailors arriving into the city. We liked the sense of foreground and depth and played on building this with layers of very thin silver sheet, whilst trying to stay faithful to the original character.
A lot of fun to make.