The whole idea
Why should jewellery be so serious?
Most jewellery asks you to be a certain kind of person before you’ve even put it on.
Serious. Tasteful. Restrained in a way that costs money. We kept looking at it and thinking: this is very nice, and it has nothing to do with anyone we know.
So we started from the other end. Not from the metal — from the objects. A calculator that has never given the right answer. A bottle of pills nobody would take. A tile stolen from a kitchen in a country we’ve never been to. Small painted things with opinions, made one at a time, sealed, and given a ring so they could go somewhere.
The chain came second, and only because we couldn’t find one that held five charms without sagging in the middle. That is genuinely the whole origin story. A sagging chain.
Jewellery is the base. The charms are the personality.
You can buy something we already made — we’re proud of those — but the thing we actually built this for is the other bit. Pick a base. Pick your charms. Nobody else will have the same one, and that’s not a marketing line, it’s just arithmetic.
How they happen
Every one is painted by hand, which is why none of them match.
- 01
Shaped
Rolled, cut and cornered by hand from polymer clay. This is where the wonk enters and we let it.
- 02
Painted
Base coat, then linework, then lettering — the slowest part. The delft tile takes about forty separate marks.
- 03
Sealed
Two coats of gloss and a jump ring. The shine you see is real, not a filter on a photo.
In their own words
The charms have more to say than we do.
Come for the jewellery. Leave with nine tiny objects.
There are 23 in the cabinet at the moment. There will be more.