Design Lab

Have you ever taken off a piece of jewelry and admired it simply as an object? I think about that constantly as a designer. I want a piece to feel incredible on the body, but I also want its shape, movement, materials and tiny details to hold your attention when it's resting on an armoire or sitting in a ceramic dish. [...]

Design Lab started as an experiment. I wanted more room to play with ideas, test combinations and make things without knowing from the beginning exactly where they would end up. The idea actually goes all the way back to my Industrial Design days at Virginia Tech, where iteration after iteration taught me [...]