Tempietto

A tiny tempietto with an Emerald dome, for keeping something very important scrolled-up inside. for more pics and a film click here

Jewelry Crane

Swanky Hangman: a portable support for the hanging jewelry case I posted previously.

Made of silver, it screws on to any 1.5litre evian bottle, using the weight of the water to remain stable.

It is thin, 1mm throughout the arch, and gently distorts as the jewelry case swings.

The fins joining the arch to the bottle top, and the bar at the base of each side of the arch, restrain it just enough that it flexes, but is secure.

Hanging-Masks Jewellery Box

Designed in the same series as the "Mannered-Man-Pendant", this jewellery box is also hominoidal, with a series of four faces with different moods on each of its sides, and also hangs, but here more like a pendulum than a pendant.

The video above is cut to half its width by the blog, see here for the full version

It hangs from a chain, and can be suspended from any hook or ledge, swinging gently since all of its joints are movable. There will also be a foldable armature from which it can be hung  when travelling.

There are two spheres of silver, above and below the main box, which act to maintain its centre of gravity so that it never leans out of line, whilst the lower, larger sphere is connected to the base of the box by a silver bar, which when held between two fingers, steadies the box so that its door can be opened with the other hand.

Slightly recessed inside the door is a lipped shelf, so that the case is divided vertically into two sections, and can contain several rings, and earrings.

The main box is made of 9ct gold which has been laser-cut and then hand-assembled and finished. The bars, joints and spheres are silver.

Below are some photos of the first assembly.

Two Follies

Two small silver objects, one with gold-plating to its upper interior, from a range that includes this castle-bridge-ring, and an indefinite number of other potential variations.

They were both made from hand-carved wax using lost-wax casting

and are intended to multiply, populating the nooks and crannies of a home

turning its bookshelves, wainscotting, treads and cupboard-tops into a Penguin paperback and Ikea flatpack

interior romantic garden, through which eyes tired from the strain of the computer screen can go for jaunty mid-afternoon saunters, wandering over worktops, and between lampshades, occasionaly taking refuge under the light whimsy of a minute folly.

Folly Ring

A bridge spanning a finger, gatekeeper to the hand, and a Castle-with-a-hole decorating the landscape of a living-room's shelf.

Mannered Man Pendant

A pair of Pendants designed using a traditional mannerist strap-work motif, combined with an ensconced face, turned upside down with disproportionate legs and arms, so that the figure looks up at the wearer, waving all the while, but still having his feet firmly pointed to the ground.

Laser-cut, hand-finished 18ct gold