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Studio visits in Berlin and Vienna

From left to right, clockwise: Jens Sierra Lingemann, Lilly and Elli from BergnerSchmidt, Katarina Schmidt, Milly Nobis, Ruth Temur and Katie Gruber   I’m so happy that this year I was able to make it to Berlin. I was supposed to have visited last year and actually made some appointments to visit studios but a last minute emergency made me cancel my visit and postpone this trip. Maybe it’s a good…

12h in Hong Kong & Obellery Jewellery

This year I flew to Hong Kong but didn’t get to spend a lot of time in town. To be honest, I think I spent more or less 12 hours in town, just enough to do a quick visit to my favorite places and to catch up with the Obellery Jewellery team at the PMQ building. If you missed the studio visit I did in 2014, go check them out here. They have a very cool studio and gallery, they do some amazing…

Studio space: to share or not to share?

On the plane back, working on a new post for SpaceUnseen, I started counting the number of studio visits I’ve made. One year and 3 months since the beginning of this blog and I’ve visited 25 jewelry studios in different cities around the world. I feel grateful and always surprised when designers answer yes to my request. (How weird must it be to get an email from someone asking to come snoop…

[cycloneslider id=”iceland-design”]   While visiting Iceland, and in particular while walking the lovely streets of Reykjavik, I came across this store that caught my eye. Placed in the lower part of a building and with some interesting window displays was OrriFinn Designs. A peak inside revealed an amazing skull, a jewelry atelier and a leather workshop.  Even though they were closed (it was a…

Studio Visits in Los Angeles

Not updating the journal part of the site, doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy. In fact, in the past month I completed 8 studio visits in 3 different cities. My first stop was long due: Los Angeles! And of course that I didn’t have enough time to do everything I wanted, but still I managed to see some very cool studios, designers and jewelry. Yes, and we all know that the light in Los Angeles…

Studio De Lucca studio visit in Long Beach

Khobe made me laugh with her reply to my email asking for a studio visit. Her answer is probably one of my favorites: Really fast, a big YES and a let me check my calendar but count me in! And she couldn’t be more accommodating by meeting me at 8:30am in the middle of a very busy week, when she had to finish more than 400 pair of earrings the day before and going strong on custom work for…

Fat Free jewelry from Tessa Packard London

Tessa Packard London is launching a new spring collection, her fourth collection so far. The collection draws from Tessa’s love for pop art and the traditional English penny sweet.

You have to agree that it’s a fun name and idea for a jewelry collection.

Here’s a sneak peak of what’s coming to Tessa’s studio this Spring!

Find out more at her website : http://www.tessapackard.com

Brighton Rocks…

I can only wish that 2015 is at least as good as 2014 was for Spaceunseen. I started this blog in February last year, a dream come true and one of my 2014 new year resolutions. I thought I would have fun doing it and that it would be interesting for other people as well.

Oh my, was I proved right! I didn’t expect to have such a positive reaction as I had from everybody. And that is why I want to…

5 minutes with Tessa Packard London

While planing my trip to London I reached out to the talented jewelry designer Tessa Packard to try and arrange a studio visit. Unfortunately Tessa was going to be out of town but I really wanted to share her work and space, so I asked her to do the 5 minutes feature instead.

Tessa was delighted to participate and as we exchanged emails, she showed concern that she might not “fit the bill” of the…

Atelier Sebastião Lobo Studio visit

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I first heard about Sebastião Lobo in the Monocle magazine. There was an article about this new and upcoming designer that had a beautiful store/studio space in an old neighborhood of Lisbon. That got me started on checking Sebastião’s work and falling in love with his pieces. I took note and promised to visit next time I’d be in Lisbon.

Fast forwarding to a…

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I just spent a couple of days in London and had a blast visiting a lot of jewelry studios. And I wish so many things, that I don’t even know where to start.

I wish I had more time to visit more studios because it seems that everything is happening in London right now. The jewelry design scene is outrageously alive and kicking, with amazing, very talented…

Lisbon: a brand new world of designers

Finding young, talented designers in an “old” world of traditional jewelry is a breath of fresh air. My recent visit to Lisbon just confirmed this old adage. In an old world of tradition there are some very bright designers changing the jewelry design scene with a new enthusiasm and good vibes.

They are all very young, with an inspiring and contagious talent. They’re trying hard to make a living…

Behind the scenes at Rebecca Overmann Jewelry

Last June I had the chance to visit Rebecca Overmann Jewelry studio in San Francisco, CA. Her whole team is delightful and so nice to let me go around taking photos of them while they’re working. The light pouring from those big windows around the studio was just amazing as everybody around the studio was busy working on different jewelry pieces.

The whole place has an amazing vibe, a mix between…

Hong Kong: a Metropolis of Jewelry

If you’re thinking traditional jewelry, carved with diamonds, precious gemstones and jade then this is not the Hong Kong jewelry that I’m gonna show you. I’ve recently been to Hong Kong and had the fortune to visit 4 jewelry designers that are changing the jewelry scene in the city with their contemporary designs. Their studios and designs are fun, modern and captivating, while they manage to…

If you go to San Francisco…

If you go to San Francisco you should make an appointment with Rebecca Overmann Jewelry. Yes, the Golden Bridge, the hills and Lombard street and blah, blah, blah. It is very nice (not kidding, it’s one of my favorite cities in the US) but seriously, you have to go see Rebecca. Her jewelry is beautiful and delicate and you want to leave with tons of rings with you. Just saying!

Lucky me I got to…

I had a really good chance to travel to Quebec in Canada. Even tough I only had the chance to do one studio visit I did a very special one. I was lucky to do a studio visit in Montreal to the Canadian jeweler Janis Kerman the designer behind Janis Kerman Design and co-founder of Bande des Quatres a boutique jewelry line.

Stay tuned for the behind the scenes and the full studio visit.

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